A Letter to Pope Francis (signatures needed)

[Rev. Rye]

You act like there's anything they can actually do. Even a mass exodus from the Church is unlikely to change anything; the Church has suffered a loss in moral credibility it hasn't seen since the Reformation and there has been bugger-all in the way of change. The Church has done whatever the fuck it wants for centuries, and, even if it wasn't a sovereign nation of its own, it's surrounded on all sides by a nation it still has by the balls, and a cartoonishly-corrupt one at that.

Even if their mass exodus won’t produce immediate effects it must still be, to any moral person with an ounce of dignity and independent self-respect, vastly preferable to beseeching like an even lower level of worm those same parasites, and thus helping to reaffirm, in the minds of the parasites, that the parasites are above men and law, and answerable to neither society, their victims nor laws.

If politicians don’t have the spine to subordinate a criminal organization like RCC to laws and secular consequences commensurate with its crimes, then it is contingent upon the society to crush RCC’s financial and social capital needed for operating above the law.

And I'm saying that I don't expect the society themselves to crush the social capital (let alone financial) to a degree that affects the church that it does something.

I feel like this would be a place to show the scene in Batman Begins where Ras Al-Ghul tries to convince Batman that Gotham is beyond saving, because it fits my view of the Church and attempts by laymen to reform it, but even if the fact that Batman still holds his ground didn't undermine it (and at least the League is defeated before they can destroy Gotham), I can't actually find that scene on Youtube.