Let us be plain. The institutional Roman Catholic Church as it currently exists is a prima facie international criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice. Absent the scent of incense, this would be the easiest RICO case any prosecutor ever brought. Consider what we've learned just in the last week.
1) Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan announced that her investigation had discovered that the identities of more than 500 priests against whom charges of sexual abuse had been lodged were still being kept secret by the institutional church in that state.
2) It was revealed this week that the Society of Jesus had been stashing abusive Jesuits at a kind of safe house on the campus of Gonzaga University in Spokane.
3) The pope this week accepted the resignation of Bishop Alexander Salazar, auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, in the wake of revelations that the Church had buried abuse accusations against the bishop dating back to the 1990s.
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1) Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan announced that her investigation had discovered that the identities of more than 500 priests against whom charges of sexual abuse had been lodged were still being kept secret by the institutional church in that state.
2) It was revealed this week that the Society of Jesus had been stashing abusive Jesuits at a kind of safe house on the campus of Gonzaga University in Spokane.
3) The pope this week accepted the resignation of Bishop Alexander Salazar, auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, in the wake of revelations that the Church had buried abuse accusations against the bishop dating back to the 1990s.
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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"