FU Friday: The Pope (again)

Some Time ago I started this segment with an FU to Pope Benedict. FU Friday never made it past that first post.

Well, Joey’s at it again, so it only seems fitting to pick up where I left off and offer another big FU to Joseph Alois Ratzinger, aka Pope Benedict XVI.

Recent Crimes against Awesome:
• Recently Joey issued an apology to the rape victims within the Irish Catholic Church. Sounds like a good thing. Until you read it. What a sorry fucking excuse for an apology.

During the brief moments where he actually shows remorse for kids getting raped by his priests, he’s careful to distance the Vatican by overusing phrases like, “the church in Ireland” and “in your country.”
The rest of the letter is an attempt to convince victims, families, and young members not to run away screaming. He dedicates a few whole pages to talking about how awesome the church is.
Historically, the Catholics of Ireland have proved an enormous force for good at home and abroad. Celtic monks like Saint Columbanus spread the Gospel in Western Europe and laid the foundations of medieval monastic culture. The ideals of holiness, charity and transcendent wisdom born of the Christian faith found expression in the building of churches and monasteries and the establishment of schools, libraries and hospitals, all of which helped to consolidate the spiritual identity of Europe. Those Irish missionaries drew their strength and inspiration from the firm faith, strong leadership and upright morals of the Church in their native land.
I’m sure that’s exactly what rape victims want to hear in an apology. “I’m really sorry my friend raped you, but I swear, he’s a really good guy.”
Oh, and he finds time to blame it all on secularism.
In recent decades, however, the Church in your country has had to
confront new and serious challenges to the faith arising from the rapid
transformation and secularization of Irish society. Fast-paced social
change has occurred, often adversely affecting people’s traditional
adherence to Catholic teaching and values.
In recent decades, however, the Church in your country has had toconfront new and serious challenges to the faith arising from the rapidtransformation and secularization of Irish society. Fast-paced socialchange has occurred, often adversely affecting people’s traditionaladherence to Catholic teaching and values. … Significant too was the tendency during this period, also on the part of
priests and religious, to adopt ways of thinking and assessing secular
realities without sufficient reference to the Gospel.
Riiight. The problem with Catholic priests raping children and Catholic bishops covering it up was that they were not Catholic enough.

• More covering for rapists has come to light.

Historic Crimes Against Awesome:
• Being a Nazi (in all fairness, he didn’t actually have a choice in the matter to join Hitler’s Youth).
• Having ridiculous, arrogant names and titles. “His Holiness,” “The Holy See,” “Holy Father,” to name a few.
His official title is, “His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman province, Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City, Servant of the Servants of God.” No joke.
His chosen nickname is Benedict XVI. Not only is this by definition unoriginal, but everyone knows you don’t give yourself a nickname.
• Calling homosexuality an “intrinsic moral evil.”
• Limiting women to motherhood and virginity, the “roles inscribed in her own biology.”
• Covering for rapists.
• Declaring himself the authority on global economics.
• Giving unsolicited advice on bioethics to the President of a real country (the US).

Saving Grace:
So please join me in giving Joey another giant “FU!”

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One Order of Looney, Please. Hold the Reason

Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern (R) has cooked up a giant batch of crazy. Her “Oklahoma Citizen’s [sic] Proclamation for Morality” blames Obama, gays, and divorcees for the nation’s current economic woes. This is the same Sally Kern who last year called gays a bigger threat than terrorists. There’s really nothing I can say to make this funny, so just read the following crazy in its entirety:

OKLAHOMA CITIZEN’S PROCLAMATION FOR MORALITY We the People of Oklahoma, Invoking the guidance of Almighty God, in order to secure and perpetuate the blessing of Liberty; to secure just and rightful Government; to promote our mutual Welfare and Happiness, do establish this proclamation and call upon the people of the great State of Oklahoma, and our fellow Patriots in these United States of America who look to the Lord for guidance, to acknowledge the need for a national awakening of righteousness in our land.

WHEREAS, “It is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand” (John Adams); and

WHEREAS, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by Religion and Morality” (John Adams); and

WHEREAS, “Our Constitution was made only for a Moral and Religious people” (John Adams); and

WHEREAS, “We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government…but upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God” (James Madison); and

WHEREAS, “Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God (Benjamin Franklin); and

WHEREAS, “God who gave us life gave us liberty and can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God” (Thomas Jefferson); and

WHEREAS, “Whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and the support of Religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state” (Joseph Story); and

WHEREAS, “We hold sacred the rights of conscience, and promise to the people…the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion” (Roger Sherman); and

WHEREAS, “This great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians” (Patrick Henry); and

WHEREAS, “When you…exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed upon your mind that God commands you to choose just men who will rule in the fear of God” (Noah Webster); and

WHEREAS, “The principles of genuine Liberty and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible” (Noah Webster); and

WHEREAS, the people of Oklahoma have a strong tradition of reliance upon the Creator of the Universe; and

WHEREAS, we believe our economic woes are consequences of our greater national moral crisis; and

WHEREAS, this nation has become a world leader in promoting abortion, pornography, same sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitimate births, child abuse, and many other forms of debauchery; and

WHEREAS, alarmed that the Government of the United States of America is forsaking the rich Christian heritage upon which this nation was built; and

WHEREAS, grieved that the Office of the president of these United States has refused to uphold the long held tradition of past presidents in giving recognition to our National Day of Prayer; and

WHEREAS, deeply disturbed that the Office of the president of these United States disregards the biblical admonitions to live clean and pure lives by proclaiming an entire month to an immoral behavior;

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that we the undersigned elected officials of the people of Oklahoma, religious leaders and citizens of the State of Oklahoma, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world, solemnly declare that the HOPE of the great State of Oklahoma and of these United States, rests upon the Principles of Religion and Morality as put forth in the HOLY BIBLE; and

BE IT RESOLVED that we, the undersigned, believers in the One True God and His only Son, call upon all to join with us in recognizing that “Blessed is the Nation whose God is the Lord,” and humbly implore all who love Truth and Virtue to live above reproach in the sight of God and man with a firm reliance on the leadership and protection of Almighty God; and

BE IT RESOLVED that we, the undersigned, humbly call upon Holy God, our Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer, to have mercy on this nation, to stay His hand of judgment, and grant a national awakening of righteousness and Christian renewal as we repent of our great sin. Signed on the second day of July in the year of our Lord Christ Two Thousand and Nine.

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