‘Being raised Catholic is worse than child abuse’…

UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail

‘Being raised Catholic is worse than child abuse’: Latest incendiary claim made by atheist professor Richard Dawkins

By Daniel Martin

PUBLISHED:19:03 EST, 21 December 2012

Raising your children as Roman Catholics is worse than child abuse, according to militant atheist Richard Dawkins.

In typically incendiary style, Professor Dawkins said the mental torment inflicted by the religion’s teachings is worse in the long-term than any sexual abuse carried out by priests.

He said he had been told by a woman that while being abused by a priest was a ‘yucky’ experience, being told as a child that a Protestant friend who died would ‘roast in Hell’ was more distressing.

Last night politicians and charities condemned the former Oxford professor’s views as attention-seeking and unhelpful.

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