RE: Damned Catholics
February 29, 2016 at 7:34 am
(This post was last modified: February 29, 2016 at 7:35 am by Fake Messiah.)
Germany Fines Atheist €500 for Violating Blasphemy Law
Albert Voss, a former physics teacher and avowed atheist, was convicted of blasphemy after he daubed the rear window of his car with anti-Christian slogans:
“The church is looking for modern advertising ideas. I can help,” one read.
“Jesus, our favorite artist: hanging for 2,000 years and he still hasn’t got cramp,” it went on to suggest, in an apparent reference to the crucifixion.
“You should have known that what you did is a criminal offence,” the judge told him. “The Pope and the cross are central elements of the Catholic faith. I do not consider this art. Freedom of expression is limited by the law.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...ckers.html
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In addition to Cardinal George Pell pedophile accusation hearing one of Pope Francis' top advisers acknowledged that the Catholic Church "has made enormous mistakes" in allowing thousands of children to be raped and molested by priests over centuries as he testified at public hearing of an Australian investigative commission just a few blocks from the Vatican.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8bccd6529...-testimony
Albert Voss, a former physics teacher and avowed atheist, was convicted of blasphemy after he daubed the rear window of his car with anti-Christian slogans:
“The church is looking for modern advertising ideas. I can help,” one read.
“Jesus, our favorite artist: hanging for 2,000 years and he still hasn’t got cramp,” it went on to suggest, in an apparent reference to the crucifixion.
“You should have known that what you did is a criminal offence,” the judge told him. “The Pope and the cross are central elements of the Catholic faith. I do not consider this art. Freedom of expression is limited by the law.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...ckers.html
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In addition to Cardinal George Pell pedophile accusation hearing one of Pope Francis' top advisers acknowledged that the Catholic Church "has made enormous mistakes" in allowing thousands of children to be raped and molested by priests over centuries as he testified at public hearing of an Australian investigative commission just a few blocks from the Vatican.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8bccd6529...-testimony
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"