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  Opinion: Thou Shalt Not Sin, We're Better at It - Motto of Catholic Church

By R. C. Camphausen
Digital Journal
March 10, 2010

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/288822

After the catholic church has been damaged by sexual abuse scandals in the US, Germany, and Ireland, now there's a focus on the Netherlands as well. It seems time for a worldwide inquiry. Should the catholic church be classified as a terrorist agency?

Please believe me, I believe!

I don't mean that I believe in the deity envisioned by the predominant patriarchal religion on the planet, Christianity, with at its forefront the Roman catholic church and it's obvious slogan Thou Shalt Not Sin, We're Better At It.

In fact, it's not difficult to convey what I do and don't believe, so here it is.

I don't believe in the deity the self-appointed followers of a perhaps historical Jesus have been pushing on us since about 2,000 years, but I do believe that their 11th commandment - eyes only - was and is the one they seem to promote and practice most eagerly.

That commandment, if I have my sources right, goes like this: "Always remember that you are the boss. If you desire something or someone, just take your fill - after all, the lord has given you dominion over the earth, and you can verify that in the Bible which is His word."

Well, you won't find this commandment anywhere, not in the divine library, the old or new testament, not in the various modern and often inept transliterations of the good book, not even on the much maligned Internet that is otherwise not averse to similar porn.

No, you won't find it because it's a secret only given to whose who become an initiate of the church; the priests, bishops, arch-bishops and - of course - the popes who run the whole show.

Just imagine what a world would feel like, look like, be like ... if we would not have a new revelation every week that one or another priest, in one or another country, abused either a young girl or a young boy (apparently much preferred among the clergy).

Now after we've seen millions of worshiper's money disappear in lawsuits against priests and compensations for victims, isn't it time to classify the Roman catholic church as a dangerous cult, as a terrorist organization, as an attempt to create misery for people rather than help them out of it?

After the widely publicized Irish revelations and the more recent German ones, reported here and here, this time - just yesterday - it is the Dutch church that is undergoing an inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse ... while an Austrian abbot has also confessed to the abuse of a boy, and the present pope's brother has admitted to having a preference for corporal punishment.

The Independent of March 9 had a few and concise sentences that sum it all up for us:

German Justice Minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, pointed to a Vatican directive from 2001 which required that even the most damaging allegations should be first investigated internally and then reported to the authorities. A church spokesman has called her criticisms "absurd".

The current rash of abuse allegations are not just confined to Germany. Yesterday the Catholic Church in the Netherlands said it would appoint an independent commission to look into accusations that pupils were abused in a church boarding school.

In Austria, meanwhile, the Arch-abbott of the Salzburg monastery of St. Peter, Bruno Becker, 64 , offered his resignation on Monday after confessing to having abused a boy 40 years ago, when he was a monk. The victim, who is now 53 years old, said Becker had abused him in a grotto during a bicycle trip. He also accuses two other Benedictine monks of having abused him sexually decades ago.
The church, of course, is doing its own PR amidst all this scandalous news, and tries to limit the damage and worldwide demand for justice by saying that paedophilia is a general problem in our societies, not limited to Catholic institutions and teachers.

I do believe it's time that we recognize and classify the Roman Catholic Church as a dangerous cult terrorizing the world with its homophobic teachings, its condemnation of condoms and other methods of birth-control and disease prevention, and I leave it to everyone's own imagination whether or not they are equally unwanted in contemporary society as is Scientology and Islamo-Fascism.

Many people are often inclined to boycott one or another company for sins against the environment, perhaps it is time to quit membership in the church, in massive numbers. The Vatican, like any other corporation, best learns and listens when hit where it counts: in the purse.

By the way, revoking membership in the church does not mean that you have to stop being a Christian, if that's what you like, you merely don't pay taxes to the Vatican anymore.

For those interested, BBC Newsnight has a great article and video concerning the pedophile priest Bill Carney and his adventures in Ireland.

 
 
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