The Catholic Church is a criminal organization, and you are morally obligated to treat it and it's supports accordingly.

It is clear that the Catholic Church has institutionally supported child molestation. There is no indication that the Church has done anything to rectify this. As such, it is morally obligatory that the Church and all of it's supporters are guilty of child molestation by proxy.

When I was making this proclamation recently, someone challenged me to "fix it". Clearly I can not do that, but there is more that I can do so I will.

I will loudly and publicly explain why the Catholic Church is a criminal organization, and I will explain what the Catholic church and it's supporters can do to redeem themselves.

Part I - Why the Catholic Church is a criminal organization.

There is a preponderance of evidence that the Catholic Church has institutionally allowed known child molesters to be put in situations where they would have access to molest children. Furthermore the Church has institutionally supported protecting child molesters from criminal prosecution. This are criminal act.

The individuals that are guilty of this include the current Pope, and many sitting cardinals and bishops. This is well known and documented. If anyone would like me to lay out the evidence against the Church, I can but what is the point. You've seen it, you know they fuck children.

Part II - What can the Catholic Church do to redeem itself?

I'll lend the Pope a hand. I will highlight the points the Pope needs to hit in a speech he should give that would start the redemption process for the Catholic Church.

1) The Pope needs to admit personal responsibility for 

• Personally moving a known child molester and putting him in a position where he could, and did, molest again.
• Contributing to the authorship of and promoting the enforcement of Church doctrine to protect know child molesters.

2) He needs to submit himself for criminal prosecution in all jurisdictions where he has committed crimes.

3) The Pope needs to instruct the Church to pay for any Medically Efficacious treatment for anyone who can reasonably demonstrate they are victims of  abuse by Catholic Priests. I do not advocate the Church should make financial payments to any victims unless so ordered by a court of law.

4) The Pope needs to modify the recruitment process for priests so to make every reasonable attempt to exclude child molesters from priesthood.

5) The Pope needs to order that ALL Church records be opened to examination by any interested law enforcement agency in order to criminally prosecute child molesters.

6) The Pope should make it clear that he has asked forgiveness of his God, and this process is part of the necessary redemption for his and the Churches actions.

7) The Pope should demand that this process be repeated at every organizational level of the Church guilty of such crimes (including step 8).

8) The Pope should resign.

Part III - What are Catholics morally obligated to do?

1) Stop giving money to the Church until the Church has started to redeem itself.

2) Treat the Church as the criminal organization it is until it has started to redeem itself.


Is there anything I missed? Is there anything else I could do to "fix it"?

...let's play "Stupid or Liar".

Let's say a man running for President of the United States of America says he "didn't inhale". That statement would be an excellent focus for a game of Stupid of Lair.

Now I don't mean to pick of old Slick Willey; almost anything that almost any politician says is likely to meet the conditions of the game, it's just that was the first thing that jumped into my mind.

I'm sure there are thousands of quotes I could have used from W, I just don't want to ruin all the work my brain did to block out any memory of his administration.

Back to Willey; presumably his statement would have us believe that he took a marijuana cigarette in his grubby little hands and moved it to his mouth. He then sucked the thing to get smoke into his mouth, but failed to inhale the smoke into his lungs for some reason.

Now we all take turns stating if we think Willey is stupid or a lair, and then justifying our choice. Of course I gave you an easy one to start with, everyone knows Willey is way too smart to waste a perfectly good doobie. Additionally he has clearly demonstrated his bald faced skills as a wold class liar.

One point for everyone who called Lair.

Now that your warmed up, we'll move on to a harder one.

Given

1. God exists
2. God is good
3. God is both omniscience and omnipotent
4. Evil exists

I want your stupid or lair answers one of the two possible resolutions to the problem of evil. Either "God has the power to eliminate evil, but chooses to allow it's existence" or "God does not have the power to eliminate evil with out destroying free will."

Here are a few points for you to work into your answers.

Heaven: If evil has to exist on earth, does it have to exist in Heaven? If evil does not exist in Heaven, does that mean free will does not exist in Heaven? If I don't have the free will to hunt down Jessica Alba circa "Idle Hands" and rape the living shit out of her, is it really Heaven?

Free Will: Even if God has to allow free will, that is not the same as allowing free action.I bet there exists right now a paraplegic who wants to dance a jig but can not. He has the free will to want to dance, but not the free action to perform that dance. Why can't God give Catholic Priests the desire to fuck little children, but make their dicks fall off before they can whip them out?

Morality: If you were an all powerful God, would you allow Nichols Cage to make "Bangkok Dangerous"? It's is possible there are more heinous violations of universally accepted morality that God has allowed to occur, but I can not think of any at the moment.

God's Omnipotence: If God is really all powerful, then who is making these rules he seems to have to follow? He really could not forgive humanities sins unless he sent his son/self to earth for 30 years, then had his son/self tortured?

God is a sick fuck: If he can stop Nick Cage from making movies, but chooses not to then I have no choice but to deem him a sick fuck. Go ahead and say it, it feels good.

There is the set up, now you go...

let's start a religion

I am a terrible liar.

Well, that is probably not accurate. I think I am a pretty good lair, I just choose to almost never lie.

I have no moral compunction against telling a tie, I see no reason that your are in any way entitled to the truth from me. I don't owe you anything.

The reason I don't lie is because I don't see you as worth the time or effort it would take me to lie to you. Most of the time there is no reason for me to even speak to you. Assuming I find some reason to speak to you, I am sure as hell not going to put in the effort to lie to you. I just don't love you that much.

The point is, I lack the most fundamental of qualifications to start a religion. I have no interest in raising my game as a lair to the levels achieved by profits like Jesus, Moses, Mohammad, John Smith (he really should have come up with a cooler name), or L. Ron Hubbard.

As such, I always though the vocation of prophet-hood would be closed to me. Turns out I was premature in that assumption. I have figured out a way I can be the major prophet of my own religion, and I don't have to lie to anyone!

So I submit for your approval, the major tenants of Uncle Hateyism (this name is still under review. I'm a big ideas man, and as such I can not be bothered with the common drudgery of naming my own religion.)

1. There is no evidence for the existence of any supernatural God.
2. All known religions falsely claim some sort of divinely inspired knowledge of God.
3. Humanity is possessed of enough facility of reason to deduce that both point 1 and point 2 are true.
4. If there exists a God, he has gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that all above points are true.
5. Given points 1-4, it is safe to assume that if God exists he does not want Humanity to believe in him.

So I'll be basing my religion on those major tenants. I might just narrow them down to #5, as I assume anyone with any sort of intelligence already understands one though four.

There is still a lot of work to do. I still need to write a holy book, or at least get a good start on one. Of course the pressure is really off on that one; I mean we've already established that my holy book can not be divinely inspired, so the quality of writing does not have to meet the high levels of quality prose already established by the religions based on actual gods.