VATICAN CITY - a monument to religious exploitation and corruption

The Vatican’s Prosecutor for Clerical Sex Abuse had the utter temerity to announce that it’s pedophile priests will suffer eternal damnation in Hell for their sins.

It’s time the Vatican look in the mirror, if they want to talk about eternal damnation.  Besides, the Pope already vicariously damned humanity some ten years ago in his declaration titled DOMINUS IESUS.  Does he not now possess the spiritual courage to turn his own judgment upon himself?

Any mea culpa (apology) forthcoming – and rumors have it that the Pope is preparing one - should best fall on deaf ears.  It would be like O.J. Simpson admitting today that he murdered his wife.  We can choose to forgive.  But in situations like these, we should never forget who offered the apology; sociopathological humans are only interested in preserving their own well-being – most often to the detriment of all others.

Want further proof?  Here is another Vatican document from 2000, that serves to underscore the hypocrisy of these men and their institution – the INTERVENTION BY THE HOLY SEE DELEGATION AT THE II CONFERENCE ON THE COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN. 

It’s so pathetic, you are not sure whether to laugh or cry.  Brace yourself.  Here are some select quotes from that document:

“Children are by nature lovely, innocent, and trusting of adults, yet some of them are today increasingly robbed of their very childhood . . . [they] are never consenting sexual partners; they are always victims.  The Convention on the Rights of the Child underlines this fact: the best interest of the child is always the key.”  (So why did you bury these allegations on at least one occasion, stating that “the good of the universal church” was an important consideration - as in more important than the best interest of children)?

“Sexual abuse is evil, a criminal act, and punishable.”  (So why didn’t you affirm this universally-accepted principle over the past fifty years, by ordering the clergy to immediately report any allegations of sexual abuse of children by your priests to legal authorities)?

“We must gather much more political will to combat these crimes against our weakest, and we must strengthen both international law, instruments of extradition and extra-territoriality.”  (One must then conclude that Jeffrey Lena, the U.S. lawyer representing the Pope and The Vatican, has not been apprised of this position given that he has raised the doctrine of sovereign immunity as a defense against any and all legal liability in the matter of John V. Doe v. The Holy See)?

Once we see human beings as objects, once we forget that they have been created by God with an unalienable dignity, they can simply be used and abused. Sexual abuse of children is the logical extreme of such a view of the human being.  (So after intentionally objectifying human beings for over one thousand years in furtherance of it’s agenda to wield spiritual power over mankind, and for its own financial gain, we should not be surprised that The Vatican’s tolereance of the sexual abuse of children by its own clergy was a “logical extension” of that view?  That actually makes perfect sense in this context.)

“We must foster . . . ‘the reinforcement of positive cultural, religious and moral values and practices, which protect and promote the rights and the dignity of both girls and boys’.”  (So where were those values and practices for the past one thousand years)?

Memo to the Pope and the Vatican:  Some human beings have now expressly decided to eat from the fruit of the tree of knowledge.  In our quest, we have awakened to the understanding that it is high time for the viper to slither down from the apple tree, and crawl back under the rock from whence it came. 

Metaphorically speaking, the Devil’s identity has been sufficiently revealed.

It’s time for you to go (back) to Hell . . . forever.