On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:25:03 +0000, A.Cow wrote:
>>>>> but the vatican has at least addressed a few problems...
>>> Ah, the Vatican. Would that be the same Vatican that sup****ted Nazi
>>> Germany, covered up decades of child *** abuse by its priests,
>>> insisted that the Earth was at the centre of the universe, and refused
>>> to let ordinary people read the Bible (until 1973 in some countries)
>>> in case they found out that it differed from the belief system they
>>> had built upon it?
>> No, I think he's talking about the Vatican that imprisoned Galileo,
>> sponsored the Crusades, enabled the Inquisition, elected a member of
>> the Hitler Youth as its head, persuaded the ignorant m***** to hand
>> over their land and property at the end of the last millenium and wants
>> to take away the rights of women.
>> Wait.. is that the same Vatican you were talking about?
>
> Ah! Now I see.
>
> I was getting it confused with Scientology. Easy mistake.
I'm not defending every aspect of catholicism... but I'd say there are
some genuinely good people in that organisation....
Old Harry's game... of which this weeks episode is a classic example...
has a popes enclosure in hell... and... may be not that inaccurate....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/tuesday/rams/2230.ram
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