"The Catholic Church is not a force for good in the world..."

Stephen Fry breaks it the fuck down... Brilliant. In all respects. [Later, Hitchens hits cleanup. Effectively.]

Covers discovering moral truths, the Enlightenment, the importance of history, limbo, purgatory, buying indulgences, the evils of intercession, sexual abuse scandals, the current "pope" and more...

"...over a thousand years... sometimes as little as 2/3 of a year's salary could ensure that a dead loved one could go to heaven... and money could ensure that your baby, your dead child, your dead mother, could go to heaven...

...the last Pope, the Pole, he made Thomas More the patron saint of politicians... this is a man who put people on the rack for daring to own a Bible in English. He tortured them for owning a Bible in their own language... the idea that the Catholic Church exists to disseminate the word of the Lord is nonsense...

For me to be called a pervert by these extraordinarily sexually dysfunctional people...

...sex is a bit like food in that respect... the only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. And that in erotic terms is the Catholic Church in a nutshell...

...the words of Ratzinger, the current Pope... his first act was to write a letter to the Catholic bishops ordering them on pain of excommunication not to talk to the police or anyone else [regarding alleged sexual abuse - Rob...]

My favorite bit... "...you're a child made in the image of God - oh no, you're not, you're a faggot. And you can't join your church and you can't go to heaven. This is disgraceful. It's inhuman. It's obscene. And it comes from a clutch of hysterical, sinister virgins who have already betrayed their charge in the children of their own Church. For shame."