{"id":715,"date":"2010-04-18T05:34:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T19:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2010-04-18T05:38:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T19:38:08","slug":"what-child-would-jesus-rape-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"What child would Jesus rape? And why?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Christians have been making excuses for child rape by clergy for the last 2000 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When agents of the catholic church are caught raping children, the church frequently do their level best to shield offenders from prosecution. The current pope, Joseph Ratzinger, has been shown to have had first-hand involvement in protecting priests<\/a> from being held legally accountable for child rape.<\/p>\n

Apologists for catholic child rape like Piers Akerman<\/a> and Miranda Devine<\/a> attack those who want to see prosecutions for covering up these crimes, like Dawkins<\/a> and Hitchens<\/a>, as if their motivations<\/a> have any bearing at all upon the facts of a case of child rape. Akerman and Devine shoot the messengers and identify the church as the ‘last great moral authority.’ If the catholic church is recognised by anyone as any sort of a ‘moral authority,’ then humanity doesn’t need any ‘moral authorities.’<\/p>\n

All the while, catholics proffer alibi after alibi<\/a> for exactly why those in positions of pastoral responsiblity rape children- and expect the public at large to give a free pass to the poor, put-upon clerics. It’s a Jewish conspiracy<\/a>. It’s homosexuals<\/a>. It’s pornography<\/a> on TV and on the internet. In any fair and reasonable court of law, these lame excuses would not absolve a suspected child rapist without<\/em> a clerical collar and as such certainly should not absolve a suspect who does<\/em> happen to wear one.<\/p>\n

In-house church sanctions against child raping priests and their protectors are not adequate punishment. Child rapists belong in prison, for a very long time, as do their apologists and co-conspirators.<\/p>\n

Arrest the pope<\/a>. Now.<\/p>\n

-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christians have been making excuses for child rape by clergy for the last 2000 years. When agents of the catholic church are caught raping children, the church frequently do their level best to shield offenders from prosecution. The current pope, Joseph Ratzinger, has been shown to have had first-hand involvement in protecting priests from being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}