Matthew D. Hardin said:I really have very little objection to what Dr. Dawkins is trying to do.
I have an objection to what Dawkins THINKS he's doing, but not what he is ACTUALLY doing. Dawkins is actually suggesting that the U.N. prosecute a fake Pope, which is fine with me. The problem is that, in the eyes of most of the world, Vatican II really is the Catholic Church, Ratzinger really is the Pope, and what Dawkins suggests sets a very dangerous precedent.
I would prefer if Fr. Ratzinger were tried in an ecclesiastical court rather than in a secular court, but the Vatican doesn't really believe in the notion that clerics are immune from prosecution in state courts anymore.
Great point. The "Church" has stooped to meet the world, and now the world is about to inevitably consume it. Luckily, it's only really consuming a dummy, a counterfeit.
And that is because the Dawkins and the Ratzingers of this world are
on the same side. It's just that each of them has a different function when it comes to destroying the common enemy known as the Catholic Church. One works from within, one from without... One does everything he can to discredit the "Catholic Church" by twiddling his thumbs while sacrilege, heresy, and the grossest immorality flourish. The other then comes in for the mop-up job, making it appear is if the "Catholic Church," with its "superstition," "impossible standards of celibacy," and "medievalism" is the enemy -- when the enemy is really non-Catholics who pose as Catholics.
People need to see that both sides, both the VII impostors and the seculars, are really both the same, they are all non-Catholics. Don't defend Ratzinger because he pretends -- poorly -- to be Catholic while Dawkins is an atheist.
As if Ratzinger doesn't have a computer and is unaware what is going on? Any of us here could clean up the Church better in two hours than Ratzinger has done in years. Oh, I see you are on video giving a clown Mass? Goodbye, don't darken my doorstep again. Molested a kid? I hope you enjoy your new home on a prison barge! Etc.