Thursday, September 16, 2010

Stephen Fry: Pope Should Not Have a 'State' Visit


From BBC News:
More than 50 public figures have added their names to a letter in the Guardian newspaper saying the Pope should not be given the "honour" of a UK state visit.

Authors Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman and actor Stephen Fry are among those critical of the Vatican record on birth control, gay rights and abortion.
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Other signatories to the letter in the Guardian include: Professor Richard Dawkins, Ken Follett, AC Grayling, Stewart Lee, Claire Rayner, Lord Foulkes, Lord Hughes, Professor Steve Jones, Sir Jonathan Miller, Lord Taverne, Peter Tatchell and Baroness Turner.
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(Thanks to TreVelocita)

5 comments:

  1. <span>"Vatican City was established in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty, signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Gasparri on behalf of the Holy See and by Prime MinisterBenito Mussolini" - The Vatican City a state by fascist decree!</span>

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  2. He's the Father of their religion. He's the Bishop of Rome, he's the Pontiff, he's the Supreme Pontiff ...he the Most Great High Noble Frocked Excellent Infallible Spotless Unimpeachable Worthy Holiness (grovel, grovel) - it's like, lets just bestow as many titles as possible to glorify this nonsense.

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  3. Stephen Fry is (inadvertently) articulating a profound spiritual truth, that a person cannot be a spiritual leader and the head of an autocratic system. This is another case of an atheist being closer to God/the Truth than a theist.

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  4. The Vatican City was established as a state during the time of Mussolini because the Church was worried that they would be conquered like the rest of Europe at the time of the Nazi and Italian agression.  While established as an independant nation inside Italy the Church then funneled jews and other persecuted peoples out of Italy to protect them from the concentration camps.

    Read a history book, it helps.

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  5. Yeah while funneling nazi war criminals to South America.

    Read a history book, it helps.

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