Maybe it is cause for concern.

After a tiny bit of reading around it seems that the Pope's decision out create exorcist squads could well be very bad news.

There are cases of mentally ill teenagers spending years having hundreds of exorcisms, including ones by the Pope himself, instead of them seeking proper psychiatric treatment.

There are cases of people being killed in exorcisms, and of the nuns and priests involved not feeling any remorse.

We already have cases of English doctors attempting exorcisms on patients.

According to another article on the nun who was killed.

In 1999, when the Vatican issued its first new guidelines since 1614 for driving out devils, it urged priests to take modern psychiatry into account in deciding who should be exorcised.

Let us hope that the new "exorcist squads" are trained to follow this, as it will hopefully minimise the damage.

But it would be easier is if the superstitious bastards just moved out of the middle ages. This shit is ridiculous.

Oh you silly, silly Pope.

Now I may be wrong here, but I thought that most people in these enlightened days had stopped blaming the Devil and demons for bad things. That people who believed the Internet and rock music caused people to get dangerously involved in the occult and start channeling demons through them, were just lunatics that post people giggle at and ignore.

But the current head of the 'Institute for Child Rapists and Christian Fascists' aka the Catholic Church, believes otherwise. You know, that guy who walks around carrying a metal staff with a dying/dead man on the end.Yes, Mr. Nazi Pope himself had decided to "to set up exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism."

Now this isn't really a big deal, especially compared to when he tells people not to use condoms, or not to trust science, or when he hides child rapists from the proper authorities. It is just a slight cause for concern that he has 1 BILLION followers, but it more important to laugh at the old fool.

They have introduced courses for priests to combat what they call the most extreme form of "Godlessness."

Satanism isn't Godlessness, for if you are a satanist you would logically believe in God, but just thing that God is more of a c*nt than the devil. (If you take the bible literally then you would be correct, god kills, maims and tortures far more people in the bible than Satan does.)
Godlessness, as far as I can see, is believing that "The chump ain't real."

What do the other Catholics think about, "His Holiness' " comical decision?

Father Gabriele Amorth:

"Thanks be to God, we have a Pope who has decided to fight the Devil head-on,"

"Too many bishops are not taking this seriously and are not delegating their priests in the fight against the Devil. You have to hunt high and low for a properly trained exorcist.

"Thankfully, Benedict XVI believes in the existence and danger of evil - going back to the time he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith."

This man seems like he is just as crazy as the Pope, but then he is the senior exorcist of Vatican City. So it isn't really a fair target, but it is a funny target. In the past he has asserted many crazy things such as.

"A curse can originate from such things as maledictions by close relatives, a habit of blaspheming, membership in the Freemasonry, spiritic or magic practices, and so on."

Well let that be a lesson to us all. If you don't want to be "cursed" stay away from magic, just don't try it, you know stick to just reading about it in happy children's books? Oh...

Father Amorth was also one of the voices that made public warnings to parents about J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, noting that the books attempt to make a false distinction between black and white magic, when in fact, the distinction "does not exist, because magic is always a turn to the devil.

Oh, this guy makes it too easy to mock him, he is actually insane. He also believes Hitler and Stalin were possessed by demons.

Maybe everyone at the Vatican is this nutty, but I will have to investigate that another day.

That scary evil dude (The pope)

The Pope.
Should we listen to what he has to say, or dismiss him as a crazy man who is out of touch with reality and the modern world?
I mean he did wear this hat...



















not to be festive, but because he thought it was a nice hat.
In my opinion when you start wearing red hats with white fir in the winter, and don't even think it may be mistaken as a Santa hat, you have started to loose touch with the world.

Moving on what does the Darth Sidious look alike have to say on important issues? This is more important than making Ad Hominem attacks on the poor guy, but I may slip in a few more because it is so easy when he looks like this...

So lets look at what he has to say about real world issues (please remember people listen to what he has to say).

Using condoms to prevent HIV:

"The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/Aids."

The Pope warned that contraception was one of a host of trends contributing to a "breakdown in sexual morality", and church teachings should not be ignored.

Great, so based on his interpretation of a bronze age book that doesn't even mention contraceptives, as they hadn't been invented, he is willing to advise millions of people not to use condoms, even though it would save their lives. This is what is known as genocidal stupidity.

What else has the evil pope said/done?

On a minor note he believe that Harry Potter books are evil. (I will agree that 6 and 7 were pretty crap, but I don't know about evil!)

"It is good that you, esteemed and dear Mrs. Kuby, enlighten the people about Harry Potter, because there are subtle seductions, that act unconsciously, deeply distorting Christianity in the soul, before it can properly grow"

And people believe this nutjob is infallible?

Next, a big one.

Crimen Sollicitationis was enforced for 20 years by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became the Pope.

It instructs bishops on how to deal with allegations of child abuse against priests and has been seen by few outsiders.

Critics say the document has been used to evade prosecution for sex crimes.

Crimen Sollicitationis, was a confidential document which tells church officials to move priests, who are suspected of crimes such as child abuse, to a new area so they wont be caught and shame the church. It also goes into details on how to silence the accusers. Don't take my word for it, read it, I have linked to it above.
Not only this but Vatican City hides convicted priests and fights the extradition orders of countries where they are wanted.

In my opinion, anyone who can enforce a document that helps child abusers avoid the law, is a sick twisted individual. This man is someone who is happy to let children be sexually abused as long as no one finds out.
You can watch the panorama documentary on the subject on google video.

Now it is possible to go on all day about the things the Nazi Pope has done/said, so I will stop after just one more.

His recent papal encyclical not only attacks atheism with too many logical fallacies for anyone to consider. (His argument basically consists of: Communists were atheists, communists killed many people, therefore atheism is to blame for many deaths. Which is as logically sound as: McDonalds is a business, McDonalds have made many people fat, therefore business itself is to blame for the obesity.)
What I was more annoyed about was what he said on the subject of technology.

In the second encyclical of his papacy, Benedict urges Christians to put their hope for the future in God and not in technology, wealth or political ideologies which can often be deluding.Post Options

Now, quickly skipping over the old claims of money being evil and politics being corrupt, which I can't be bothered with. What the hell does "His Holiness" have against technology? There was a time when we valued God over technology, it is known as the Dark Ages! A time where everything was pretty fucked up from every ones point of view.
Oh except that the Pope had just as much power, if not more, than most of the world leaders. Hmm I wonder why he wants the world to return to the Dark Ages?

In conclusion the Pope is a selfish man who cares more about the power of his church than of the suffering of abused children, people suffering from AIDs and the benefits of modern technology. What a great man to be leader of 1billion Catholics, and no wonder they have to claim he is infallible, otherwise no one would ever listen to a crazy word he said.