Catholic League President and Vatican shill Bill Donohue has a tendency to overreact at the best of times.
When he was on the morning show Fox and Friends promoting his new book with the bombastic title - Secular Sabotage: How Liberals are Destroying Religion and Culture in America - Donohue was true to form.
With paranoid conviction he warned that "militant, dogmatic" atheists are "out to get" Catholics and dismantle American society.
There is little room for nuance in Donohue's RC-centric universe. The boiler room where he churns out his diatribes is so far removed from the diverse and changing face of America that his brand of Catholic zealotry comes across as badly out-of-touch.
With typical overstatement he refers to 'militant, dogmatic fundamentalist atheism' in an effort to conjure something cultlike and menacing. It's an obvious attempt at scare mongering.
While he's at it Donohue should look in his own backyard. Militancy includes dogmatic and unreasonable Catholic positions on matters such as birth control, abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage. Scandalous positions include the concerted effort of high ranking Catholic clerics to cover up the sex abuse of children by priests who routinely got shuttled from parish to parish.
Donohue's persecution complex knows no bounds.
A recent episode of the Showtime series Penn & Teller: Bullshit! took aim at the Catholic Church. The show was characterized by Donohue as "a Nazi-like assault."
He is seeing Nazis in all the wrong places. During WW2 it was the Catholic Church that turned a blind eye to fascist crimes when it suited them to do so and in the case of certain clerics acted as enablers.
With the reactionary climate created by Pope Benedict the church has been regressing. It has lost both its authority and relevance for many people.
Penn Jillette put it this way: “If your morality is governed by anything personal, ethical, rational or humanitarian, then the Vatican is bullshit.”
Raw Story article - here.
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When he was on the morning show Fox and Friends promoting his new book with the bombastic title - Secular Sabotage: How Liberals are Destroying Religion and Culture in America - Donohue was true to form.
With paranoid conviction he warned that "militant, dogmatic" atheists are "out to get" Catholics and dismantle American society.
There is little room for nuance in Donohue's RC-centric universe. The boiler room where he churns out his diatribes is so far removed from the diverse and changing face of America that his brand of Catholic zealotry comes across as badly out-of-touch.
With typical overstatement he refers to 'militant, dogmatic fundamentalist atheism' in an effort to conjure something cultlike and menacing. It's an obvious attempt at scare mongering.
While he's at it Donohue should look in his own backyard. Militancy includes dogmatic and unreasonable Catholic positions on matters such as birth control, abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage. Scandalous positions include the concerted effort of high ranking Catholic clerics to cover up the sex abuse of children by priests who routinely got shuttled from parish to parish.
Donohue's persecution complex knows no bounds.
A recent episode of the Showtime series Penn & Teller: Bullshit! took aim at the Catholic Church. The show was characterized by Donohue as "a Nazi-like assault."
He is seeing Nazis in all the wrong places. During WW2 it was the Catholic Church that turned a blind eye to fascist crimes when it suited them to do so and in the case of certain clerics acted as enablers.
With the reactionary climate created by Pope Benedict the church has been regressing. It has lost both its authority and relevance for many people.
Penn Jillette put it this way: “If your morality is governed by anything personal, ethical, rational or humanitarian, then the Vatican is bullshit.”
Raw Story article - here.
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