pope Charged For Crimes Against Humanity
Posted by Phil Ferguson on February 27th, 2011 – Comments Off – Posted in Catholic ChurchFrom the Irish Times.
TWO GERMAN lawyers have initiated charges against Pope Benedict XVI at the International Criminal Court, alleging crimes against humanity.
Christian Sailer and Gert-Joachim Hetzel, based at Marktheidenfeld in the Pope’s home state of Bavaria, last week submitted a 16,500-word document to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at the Hague, Dr Luis Moreno Ocampo.
Their charges concern “three worldwide crimes which until now have not been denounced . . . (as) the traditional reverence toward ‘ecclesiastical authority’ has clouded the sense of right and wrong”.
They claim the Pope “is responsible for the preservation and leadership of a worldwide totalitarian regime of coercion which subjugates its members with terrifying and health-endangering threats”.
Sounds good to me. What do you think? Should they put the pope on trial?
They claim the Catholic Church “acquires its members through a compulsory act, namely, through the baptism of infants that do not yet have a will of their own”. This act was “irrevocable” and is buttressed by threats of excommunication and the fires of hell.
It is the ultimate shakedown or protection racket. Just like the mob, they create the problem that does not really exist and for just 10% of your income they will provide you protection from the problem. It is a scam!
But I also think he has all the...