Fiedelewie

Richard Dawkins hield een speech op de “Protest the Pope rally“te Londen, een protest op 18 september dat door de media hardnekkig genegeerd werd.

De speech is een van de beste die ik ooit hoorde en ik hoop dat nog zoveel mogelijk mensen hem na mij alsnog te horen krijgen.

Richard Dawkins reageert onder andere op Ratzingers aanval op atheïsten, en diens belachelijke veronderstelling dat atheïsten verantwoordelijk zijn voor Hitler en zijn daden, maar ook tegen de standpunten en gedragingen van de kerk tegenover vrouwenrechten, condooms, homo’s en de schandalen rond kindermisbruik.

Joseph Ratzinger is an enemy of humanity.
He is an enemy of children whose bodies he has allowed to be raped and whose minds he has encouraged to be infected with guilt. It is embarrassingly clear that the church is less concerned with saving child bodies from rapists than saving priestly souls from hell and most concerned with saving the long term reputation of the church itself.
He is an enemy of gay people, bestowing on them the sort of bigotry that his church used to reserve for Jews before 1962.
He is an enemy of women barring them from the priesthood as though a penis were an essential tool for pastoral duties.
He is an enemy of truth promoting barefaced lies about condoms not protecting against aids, especially in Africa. He is an enemy of the poorest people on the planet condemning them to inflated families if they cannot feed and so keeping them in the bondage of perpetual poverty. A poverty which sits ill beside the obscene wealth of the Vatican.
He is an enemy of science, obstructing vital stem cell research not on morality but on pre-scientific superstition. (…)
Ratzinger is an enemy of education. Quite apart from the life long psychological damage caused by the guilt and fear that have made Catholic education infamous throughout the world, he and his church foster the educationally pernicious doctrine that evidence is a less reliable basis for belief than faith, tradition, revelation, and authority – his authority.

Of, zoals men het op internet wel eens tracht te zeggen: pwned!