Richard Dawkins: I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI

  On 4/11/2010 at 2:16 PM, 277: 930-933 said:

  On 4/11/2010 at 8:50 AM, karmakramer said:

i dont get the dawkins hate, did the pope not basically try to illegally cover up the raping of innocent children? I think this is the beginning of the end for religion, seriously. I think Dawkins may have the church by the balls.

 

The human race will not be around to witness the end of religion.

i'll have to agree with that statement. religion or spirituality seems to be something innate in humans. i could see organized and institutional religion dying out or at least have far less influence in the future. in a more secular world the personal spirituality is getting a bigger foothold of the peoples "souls" if you will.

  On 4/11/2010 at 7:18 PM, ezkerraldean said:

  On 4/11/2010 at 7:14 PM, phling said:

the current pope is German, dude.

poles are kathliks though

surely not all of us? especially the young urban hip ones?

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100410/local/panda-print

good times for 4chan vandalists

Doesn't the stupid Pope have like Diplomatic immunity?

  On 4/11/2010 at 7:13 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

yeah like I wanna hate dawkins for being such a preachy motherfucker but I really would like to see the world rid of religion and if it's done the dawkins way, then at least it's done.

 

go team dawkins

  On 4/11/2010 at 9:31 PM, Boxing Day said:

Doesn't the stupid Pope have like Diplomatic immunity?

 

  On 4/11/2010 at 7:13 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

yeah like I wanna hate dawkins for being such a preachy motherfucker but I really would like to see the world rid of religion and if it's done the dawkins way, then at least it's done.

 

go team dawkins

take away religion = a free world.

  On 4/11/2010 at 10:09 PM, chris moss acid said:

  On 4/11/2010 at 9:31 PM, Boxing Day said:

Doesn't the stupid Pope have like Diplomatic immunity?

 

  On 4/11/2010 at 7:13 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

yeah like I wanna hate dawkins for being such a preachy motherfucker but I really would like to see the world rid of religion and if it's done the dawkins way, then at least it's done.

 

go team dawkins

 

take away religion = a free world.

wrong. religion is just another pretext for the consolidation of power and hence, repression. Do not be fooled, there are plenty of other institutions that can easily take its place.

however, I cannot dismiss the fact that religion is one of the oldest and most fervently adhered forms in human history, so something must be done about it, but don't kid yourself in thinking that if religion was somehow completely abolished the world would transform into utopia.

PS: i hope that asshole gets arrested.

  On 4/11/2010 at 8:38 PM, triachus said:

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good times for 4chan vandalists

luls

  On 4/11/2010 at 9:37 AM, lumpenprol said:

I think a sensible way to resolve this is to take a page from watmm's playbook and get everything out in the open. Ratzinger should quit trying to sweep these incidents under the carpet, and set up a special wing of the vatican for the pedophiles, a "subforum" if you will. Only then will the wound be cleansed, and healing can begin.

Clergymen must rape boys in designated rape areas.

I generally like Dawkins' work, and I think this Pope Ratzo is a creep, but I still think this is a stupid idea.

  On 4/12/2010 at 12:01 AM, Braintree said:

Clergymen must rape boys in designated rape areas.

ie., anus or mouth

  On 4/11/2010 at 8:38 PM, triachus said:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100410/local/panda-print

 

 

good times for 4chan vandalists

haha, classy

i think he should molest the pope, for it is only fair

my mouth would emit several rumbling lols if they arrested this pope.

basically anything cool that dawkins does inflates the first edition copies i have of his books.

I was just commissioned to make this for the Vatican's PR team and they asked me to test market it first, what do you guys think?

A few alternate ones

  On 4/11/2010 at 8:57 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

i would be nice to think that, but as long as there is ignorance in the world, there is organised religion

i think it would be better to get rid of people who misuse religion

This one's for the urban market, trying to put the focus back on spirituality not materialism:

ROFL

Dawkins responds:

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Needless to say, I did NOT say "I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI" or anything so personally grandiloquent. You have to remember that The Sunday Times is a Murdoch newspaper, and that all newspapers follow the odd custom of entrusting headlines to a sub-editor, not the author of the article itself.

 

What I DID say to Marc Horne when he telephoned me out of the blue, and I repeat it here, is that I am whole-heartedly behind the initiative by Geoffrey Robertson and Mark Stephens to mount a legal challenge to the Pope's proposed visit to Britain. Beyond that, I declined to comment to Marc Horme, other than to refer him to my 'Ratzinger is the Perfect Pope' article here: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/5341

 

Here is what really happened. Christopher Hitchens first proposed the legal challenge idea to me on March 14th. I responded enthusiastically, and suggested the name of a high profile human rights lawyer whom I know. I had lost her address, however, and set about tracking her down. Meanwhile, Christopher made the brilliant suggestion of Geoffrey Robertson. He approached him, and Mr Robertson's subsequent 'Put the Pope in the Dock' article in The Guardian shows him to be ideal:

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/5366

The case is obviously in good hands, with him and Mark Stephens. I am especially intrigued by the proposed challenge to the legality of the Vatican as a sovereign state whose head can claim diplomatic immunity.

 

Even if the Pope doesn't end up in the dock, and even if the Vatican doesn't cancel the visit, I am optimistic that we shall raise public consciousness to the point where the British government will find it very awkward indeed to go ahead with the Pope's visit, let alone pay for it.

 

Richard

  On 4/12/2010 at 1:49 AM, lumpenprol said:

  On 4/12/2010 at 12:01 AM, Braintree said:

Clergymen must rape boys in designated rape areas.

 

ie., anus or mouth

Any of these, I suppose:

You have to remember that The Sunday Times is a Murdoch newspaper

*MJ eating popcorn*

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You have to remember that The Sunday Times is a Murdoch newspaper

  On 4/12/2010 at 2:48 AM, lumpenprol said:

This one's for the urban market, trying to put the focus back on spirituality not materialism:

 

Oh my LOL!

The shocking thing about the first one you did is that I could see that actually being made, haha

About fucking time .

  On 4/11/2010 at 8:57 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

i would be nice to think that, but as long as there is ignorance in the world, there is organised religion

nationalism is just as bad/dangerous/retarded as fundamentalist religion

agree with that