Comments on: Vatican body: Minnesota professor’s sin worse than genocide

By: dlw

dlw — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:25:46 +0000

South Park quote: “priceless”….

I’m a Xtn, but not Catholic, tho I’d call myself catholic and simply am turned off my all the metaphysical commitments associated with RCC orthodoxy. I prefer not-so-organized religion that does not privilege distinctions that emerged in large part out of the “ever-so-fallen” 30 years war in Europe.

dlw

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:12:22 +0000

Whenever I hear about PZ Myers I’m reminded of that great two-part South Park involving Richard Dawkins. It includes this perfect line, which pretty much sums up my feelings about the New Atheists:

“Logic and reason aren’t enough: You also have to be a dick to everyone who doesn’t think like you.”

By: War Prosecutor

War Prosecutor — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:50:21 +0000

Wahhhh… Myers blah blah blah….

If you want to prosecute someone how about that Catholic Professor of the Inquisition at
St Thomas, Delahunty. Torture memos, also picked up money from the UofMN.

There is a guy that should be hung at Nuremberg. And a real religious guy too.

By: sensusfidei

sensusfidei — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:41:42 +0000

Nice to know that the Pontiff’s life is deemed more valuable than Jane/John Doe to the extent that one would have to seek extreme church approved absolution. I wouldn’t want to have to answer to God for that type of disrespect and arrogance. God Himself will need the Church’s permission to forgive sin. If the Nazis would’ve designed their regime after the Catholic Church’s absolute control and mind control model their power structure would never have been toppled.

By: J. R. "Bob" Dobbs

J. R. "Bob" Dobbs — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:40:17 +0000

He should have dipped it in a rusty nail instead: put ice in a lowball, one part scotch, one part Drambuie, add a couple of filberts.

mmmmmm sacrilicious.

By: Pragmatist

Pragmatist — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:59:32 +0000

Myers actions are obviously not worse than genocide. But they are pointless, infantile and counterproductive.
My views are vastly closer to Myers than the Pope’s, but my opinions about the existence of God are not advanced by disrespecting other opinions. No one can prove God’s existence. But neither I nor Myers nor anyone else can disprove it. We can only say it is more logical to not believe in God than to believe – a matter of probabilities not empirical proof.
To disrespect those who hold other opinions on this narrow subject that is beyond scientific proof is to be just like the religious bigots.

By: Jeffrey L Miller

Jeffrey L Miller — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:47:30 +0000

Again proving how silly P.Z. Myers is and how he distorts everything to being about him. In the first case the Church does not excommunicate non-Catholics. All the Apostolic Penitentiary and thus the Church is saying is that for sins that have ecclesial punishments, some of them are more serious and require the Pope to lift them.