Oh, Thank you, Your Ass-Holiness....

[reverendjeremiah]

Not only will I kindly give you the page number, I will also kindly give you the quote, and also kindly put it in bold for you.

Wel That IS very kind of you.

Somehow I have the feeling you will not kindly admit that I was right though...just a hunch. You'll find a way to justify DickDawk's views on the subject since he has become a Christ figure to the Atheistic religion.

Your requirements for a "christ figure" must be pretty low or generic for you to consider someone like Dawkins to be equal to your Christ. "Atheistic Religion"?!?! LMFAO..WUT?! Perhaps we should later discuss my bald hair color? "DickDawk"? I like playing with words too. I call a Vagina a "Va Jay Jay" and I call Jesus "Jebus".

On page 355 (off of google books) of "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins

*Pulls out copy of "DickDawk's God Derusion" and blows dust off of it*
Damn, I remember not caring much for this book. It means something to Waldorf, so I guess I will go along

"Nevertheless, it is clearly unjust to visit upon all pedophiles a vengeance appropriate to the tiny minority who are also murderers. All three of the boarding schools I attended employed teachers whose affection for small boys overstepped the bounds of propriety. That was indeed reprehensible. Nevertheless if, fifty years on, they had been hounded by vigilantes or lawyers as no better than child murderers, I should have felt obliged to come to their defense, even as the victim of one of them (an embarrassing but otherwise harmless experience)."

I dont see it in my copy of my book. Damn, I guess I have to go over to google books. I prefer to have the real thing in my hand, and not some cut and paste crap from the net.

Quick question..did you read the book or did you get this cut and paste from some web site?

Ah, here it is in full context

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Priestly abuse of children is nowadays taken to mean sexual abuse, and I feel obliged, at the outset, to get the whole matter of sexual abuse in proportion and out of the way. Others have noted that we live in a time of hysteria about pedophilia, a mob psychology that calls to mind the Salem witch hunts of 1692. In July 2000 the News of the World, widely acclaimed in the face of stiff competition as Britain's most disgusting newspaper, organized a 'name-and shame' campaign, barely stopping short of inciting vigilantes to take direct violent action against pedophiles. The house of a hospital pediatrician was attacked by zealots unacquainted with the difference between a pediatrician and pedophile. The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to perceived, risks of molestation was probably no less).

In fairness to the News of the World, at the time of its campaign passions had been aroused by a truly horrifying murder, sexually motivated, of an eight-year-old girl kidnapped in Sussex. Nevertheless, it is clearly unjust to visit upon all pedophiles a vengeance appropriate to the tiny minority who are also murders. All three of the boarding schools I attended employed teachers whose affection for small boys overstepped the bounds of propriety. That was indeed reprehensible. Nevertheless, if fifty years on, they had been hounded by vigilantes or lawyers as no better than child murderers, I should have felt obliged to come to their defense, even as the victim of one of them (an embarrassing but otherwise harmless experience).

The Roman Catholic Church has borne a heavy share of such retrospective opprobrium. For all sorts of reasons I dislike the Roman Catholic Church . But I dislike unfairness even more, and I can't help wondering whether this one institution has been unfairly demonized over the issue, especially in Ireland and America. I suppose some additional public resentment flows from the hypocrisy of priests whose professional life is largely devoted to arousing guilt about 'sin'. There there is the abuse of trust by a figure in authority, whom the child has been trained from the cradle to revere. Such additional resentments should make us all the more careful not to rush to judgement. We should be aware of the remarkable power of the mind to concoct false memories, especially when abetted by unscrupulous therapists and mercenary lawyers. The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories. This is so counter intuitive that juries are easily swayed by sincere but false testimony from witnesses.

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Well I'll be a monkey's uncle dipped in pig shit! He's right!! It is in there! Well, I guess that settles it Min.. you have gone against our Lord and Savior DickDawk's words. You must repent or lose your place in atheist nothingness and be sent to torment in Christian Heaven. May nothing have mercy on your non-existant soul.

The context of DickDawk's line of thinking is that he wants people to chill the fuck out and stop grabbing their pitch forks. He also points out that it is easy for people to concoct memories. He also points out that child murderers are worse than child molestors, and that the people going after these priests act as if they were murderers with the zeal they hunt them down with. Honestly Waldorf, I am not sure what you are trying to say. Could you be a bit more specific?

Well according to Richard Dawkins in the God Delusion, child molestation is nothing more than an "embarrassing but otherwise harmless experience". So maybe the Priest should be allowed to work and not be sanctioned at all, according to DickDawk's warped views on morality of course.

Okay, now you are more specific..umm...What you say, and what you posted seem to agree, but when I read the entire page in context it seems like you just cherry picked.

Do you care to clarify?