Really? 3/24/14 – Sleaze in the Vatican; An angry God in Illinois; Nugent paid to stay away; Ryan the unconscious racist; The Bible as a science text?

Cardinal George Pell.

Pell is the new number 3 at the Vatican. And, in a breathe of delightful candor, he identified the mind-set of the cover-up minded Catholic authorities in the 1990s with this bombshell;

“The attitude of some people in the Vatican was that if accusations were being made against priests, they were made exclusively or at least predominantly by enemies of the church to make trouble.”

For an organization that is supposed to tend to the souls of its flock, the Catholic Church had a stunning lack of empathy. Pell himself had been excoriated in Australia for his lack of empathy to sex abuse victims – he apparently changed. Perhaps the Church will as well.

Ted Nugent.

All hat, no cattle, Nugent has been paid half his appearance fee – $16,000 – to stay away from Longview, TX. The town decided that Nugent was “not the right feel for this kind of community event.” Or, in other words, not someone that you would let loose on decent folk.

Susanne Atanus

This believer in alternative climatology won the GOP nomination in Illinois’ 9th District. She is one of those who sees a personal intervention in America by the Divine.

In her view, “God is angry. We are provoking him with abortions and same-sex marriage and civil unions. Same-sex activity is going to increase AIDS. If it’s in our military, it will weaken our military. We need to respect God.”

Compounding the problem is that, “Everybody knows that God controls weather.” Adding, “God is super angry.” Which is why, in her mind, the weather has been so bad.

Perhaps global warming is actually a God imposed punishment.

Paul Ryan.

Ryan is receiving blow-back from his remark, “We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work.”

He denies it was racist. But if he didn’t intend racism to color his thinking, why didn’t he acknowledge that rural unemployment is equally high? And that unemployment among ex-servicemen/women is even higher.

Ignorance that you are a racist, does not excuse your racism.

Ray Comfort.

Comfort is a creationist who has taken exception to the remake of the documentary series “Cosmos”. That’s not science, he says – however the Bible is because,

“It gives us the basis for all creation, and it passes the scientific method. It’s observable – Genesis – and testable. Evolution is not. You can’t observe something 60 million years old, but you can observe what Genesis says.”

Really? I am excited that we can see god create man and women out of dust. And then create woman out of man’s rib in the next version.

I’m still waiting