Dawkins and the Pope
According to the Sunday Times, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are going to investigate whether the Pope can be arrested when he visits the UK.
Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
I am not someone with any religion. But I do believe that if you take the basic decent humanity common to most religions they are all rules that we can abide by.
In recent years that Catholic church has in some cases protected priests, who if I did what they have done, would have gone to jail for a long time. This is by any standards not right.
I have just read the excellent book, PeopleQuake, by James Pearce. Some of the most Catholic countries in the world like Italy and Brazil have very low birthrates. So do a lot of women in these countries show the church their contempt for its teaching on contraception or are they just lucky in not getting pregnant?
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