No, you aren't dreaming or suffering from hallucinations; in a new book, the Pope has admitted that condom use may not be the big scary soul-sucking bogeyman the Vatican has claimed it is. Of course, it's not like the Pope promised to distribute condoms to AIDS riddled Africa anytime soon, even though their own moral blindness on this issue has caused the death of untold millions. The Pope gives the example ...

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This picture of two guys making out next to the Pope pretty much summarizes what all this stupid hysteria is about: religious demagogues want the whole world to fit into their narrow definition of "acceptable behavior", completely ignoring the fact same sex attraction is as normal and healthy as its heterosexual counterpart. What makes me angry is how blind they are to the suffering, humiliation and shame o ...

When the Daily Show did a segment on the Freedom From Religion Foundation's quest to stop a Mother Teresa stamp from being issued by the US Post Office, I figured that we atheists would end up looking not so hot as a result. After all, talking shit about MT nowadays is the equivalent of ripping up a picture of the pope on TV in the early 90s ... no one really knows the nasty details about her, so we end up ...

In an attempt to try and divert attention away from the fact he knowingly conspired to protect child rapists from prosecution, Pope Benedict XVI called out abortion and same sex marriage as being "insidious and dangerous", two adjectives which actually effectively describe his OWN organization (but of course that's a different rant altogether). He came close to admitting some sort of culpability for the act ...

It literally cannot be explained better than this. Props to Tim and Fraser (both of who are awesome at what they do) for putting out more cool shit for us to enjoy. We love you guys. ...

A fan of the site (they exist apparently) sent me a link to this webcomic, Calamities of Nature,  and I thought some of them had some pretty genuinely funny and interesting points to make about religion, the Pope, and creationism. I feel as though the character of Aaron has a lot in common with little old me. I just have to ask one question though: where the fuck are his eyes? ...

A couple days ago, a memo circulated around the Foreign Office suggesting some "ideas" for Pope Benedict XVI's visit to England. The list included the Pope launching his own condom to opening an abortion clinic. Like any memo that begins with the words "should not be shared externally", it quickly escaped the confines of the office and has so outraged the Vatican they are threatening not to come to the coun ...

The Hitch is back with more on the Pope, this time with a well thought out article in Newsweek entitled 'Bring the Pope to Justice'. I feel like a lot of the writing out there regarding this whole scandal haven't done a great job of pinning down just how shamefully complicit the Vatican has been in all this. Well, it doesn't get more obvious or well laid out than this: In 2002, I happened to be on Hardball ...

One of the many victims of Fr. Lawrence Murphy (the guy who molested over 200 deaf kids) has filed a lawsuit against the Pope in the hopes to uncover how much the Vatican did know about the abuse, and how they went about covering it up. The plaintiff, whose identity has been concealed, doesn't want any money; he just wants justice for his life having been ruined by the sexual torture he had to endure. I'm c ...