Build a world free from greed says pimped up Papa B

Strutting his stuff in the latest high end and exclusive red and gold God-wear and flanked by his pimped up papal posse, his holiness Preachin’ Papa B has called for a new age free from greed.

Pope Benedict in hypocrisy shock (and confirms he is Catholic)

The pope Vatican has updated the seven deadly sins with a more hip and happening modern version. These updated sins of the modern era as are follows

• Environmental pollution
• Genetic manipulation
• Accumulating excessive wealth
• Inflicting poverty
• Drug trafficking and consumption
• Morally debatable experiments
• Violation of fundamental rights of human nature

Now it is easy to point out that the Vatican is excessively wealthy, the Catholic Church abuses the fundamental rights of women and Jesus was known to perform miracles when wanting a booze fix, I’m more interested in the sins of ‘genetic manipulation’ and ‘morally debatable experiments’ given that I do this on an almost daily basis. I am also an ex-Catholic who once upon a time would have considered the Pope’s musings with more respect than I do now.

Instead of an in depth look at the ethics of genetic manipulation, animal experiments and human drug trials I will just point out a few facts to His Holiness. Pope Benedict suffers from ill health and is on medication for high blood pressure which is essential for his continued survival. It is certain that the development of drugs to deal with this condition involve genetic manipulation and morally debatable experiments, searching PubMed results in nearly 1000 results for transgenics relating to blood pressure and around 40,000 results for trials involving blood pressure.

If Pope Benedict has an ounce of sincerity he would immediately cease taking his medication which undoubtedly breaches at least two of his updated deadly sins in its production. However, the Pope has a get out clause, Confession, this allows God to forgive his sins and reset his sin score to zero. So how often does the Pope confess his sins?

The Pope confesses his sins regularly once a week.

May I humbly suggest that he does it each time he pops one of those pills, developed by the sinful actions of scientists, that keep him alive.

Dawkins you idiot

Richard Dawkins, defender against faith, proselytiser for the non-godly and the rosy cheeked face of atheism has decided to take his atheist campaign to God-fearing America.   

 Dawkins argues that atheists “have been downtrodden for a very long time. So I think some sort of political organisation is what they need”.  In his quest to uphold the rights of the oppressed he wants to form a organisation similar to the ‘Jewish lobby’ (his quotes, not mine), “When you think about how fantastically successful the Jewish lobby has been, though, in fact, they are less numerous I am told – religious Jews anyway – than atheists and [yet they] more or less monopolise American foreign policy as far as many people can see. So if atheists could achieve a small fraction of that influence, the world would be a better place.” as well as co-opting the language of gay-rights organisations with his The Out Campaign.  

 Sadly, with these examples Dawkins exposes himself as a politically naive idiot.