Too bad “brainwashing” isn’t a four-letter word used to describe a criminal offense. There is no organization on earth that is as good at it as is the Roman Catholic church.

The sight of a pope, standing in his bullet-proof “popemobile,” waving to millions of third-world peasants nearly makes me ill. The hypocrisy of it is beyond belief!

I don’t suppose it occurs to these mobsters in Rome to cough up a few million to help those suffering from an ACT OF THEIR GOD (tornados) in the USA. Why does it not dawn on survivors when they spout “Thank God for saving us” that it was GOD that created and sent the storms in the first place! It’s all so profoundly pathetic.

Does the catholic church really think that digging up a reactionary with a 19th century mentality and foisting him off as somehow devine makes this arcane, criminal, and anachronistic old-fools’ club relavent in the 21st century? I think not! With the exception of the gullible and credulous around the world who continue to believe that this rapacious and intellectually bankrupt gang is anything but just another organized crime syndicate those with an iota of common sense find that this “institution” has outlived it’s smoke & mirrors run on the vaudeville stage called organized religion!

No matter what most people say, it’s a good thing that Pope John Paul II was beatified by the Catholic Church, and he should be ‘blessedly happy’. After all, under this Pope’s divine guidance, the cost to the Archdioceses of the United States alone, not counting Ireland, Germany, Belgium, and the rest of the world, was just over $2,000,000,000, to pay for just the known and proven and confessed sexual delights their priests had raping male and female children for the past half-century. So it’s no wonder Pope John is on the path to ‘sainthood’ as his reward.

But just think, if his US priests had been more sexually active, and/or the true total of the rapes were known, and the total payout had approached, say, $5B, perhaps his cretin peers would have annointed him GOD II, instead of just a ‘saint’.

No matter how you see it, though, $2B is a lot of tithes, so all you faithful Catholic rams and ewes better tighten up your budgets, recession or no recession, and keep on tithin’, more sex scandals are surely coming. Or, you could castrate your priests.

And while you’re a’praying, and giving thanks to ‘god’ for all your blessings, don’t forget to throw in a little prayer of thanks to the multitude of US non-catholic taxpayers, who have to make up the deficit in US revenue that ‘Mother Church’ creates by being tax-exempt on all her income and properties, thanks to the ‘holy’ efforts of your catholic church lobbyists.