His Holiness, Christ's Vicar on Earth, Pope Benedict XVI, has had ties to the Bush crime family since 1999, he tipped the Catholic vote to Bush in Bush's most recent show-election, and he ordered Bishop Robert Vasa to deny Communion to Senator John Kerry.
I'm sure that won't matter a jot or a tittle when it comes time for the Bush administration to consider Pope Benedict's request for diplomatic immunity as a head of state in the ongoing Catholic man-boy rape trials. The policy of the Roman Catholic Church since 1962 has been to hush-up reports of child molestation and move the offending priest to another parish, and Pope Benedict confirmed this was the policy of the Roman Catholic Church as recently as 2001. Pope Benedict is pulling rank as a head of state in Vatican City... but hey-presto! somehow this government is not a government when it comes time to belly up to the slop bucket of benefits for being a religion (exemption from taxes and civil rights laws in employment, for example). Pope Benedict is going to be a political leader when it suits him and a religious leader when it suits him, and you can be sure that his workers (priest, nuns, etc.) won't be treated as foreign government workers just because they work for a foreign government.
In the face of all those living humans who really are starving, isn't it time to stop feeding the imaginary corpse of Christ? Please refrain from supporting the religion of your choice today.
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