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Unbelievers are more merciful and understanding than believers, as
well as more rational. We do not believe that the pope will face
judgment or eternal punishment for the millions who will die
needlessly from AIDS, or for his excusing and sheltering of those who
committed the unpardonable sin of raping and torturing children, or
for the countless people whose sex lives have been ruined by guilt and
shame and who are taught to respect the body only when it is a
lifeless cadaver like that of Terri Schiavo. For us, this day is only
the interment of an elderly and querulous celibate, who came too late
and who stayed too long, and whose primitive ideology did not permit
him the true self-criticism that could have saved him, and others less
innocent, from so many errors and crimes.
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Read it at http://www.slate.com/id/2116443/
J. Spaceman
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