Senior officials within the British government, the police, and the Catholic Church conspired to cover up the involvement of a Catholic priest in a 1972 bombing. Terrorist father James Chesney engineered the blast which killed nine people in the village of Claudy, near Londonderry. He was moved to the Republic of Ireland late in 1973, amid fears that his arrest would further inflame sectarian tensions at the time.
The inquiry showed that Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, discussed the possibility of transferring the priest outside the jurisdiction of Northern Ireland police in a private meeting with Cardinal William Conway, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Chesney escaped trial and died in 1980, aged 46. The current British minister for Northern Ireland, Owen Paterson, is profoundly sorry that Chesney had not been fully investigated.
Let's face it, we are all victims of Abrahamic religions! Basil Venitis has proven that Abraham never existed! Nevertheless, the religulous tenets of the three Abrahamic religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, are dangerous fairy tales and myths that have incited barbarous purges and holy wars that are still being fought. A talking snake? A man who lived inside a fish? A Nazarene son of Roman rapist presented as the only son of God? Resurrection? Divine Revelations? Day of Judgment? Hell? Jihad? Adolf Hitler used to say that hoi polloi tend to believe big lies, not small lies!
These are favorite religious images presenting God as grudge collector, deserving ridicule. But those who believe in the end-of-days may be making a self-fulfilling prophecy of apocalyptic images of stampeding armies and mushroom clouds in the ruins of Megiddo, the Israeli site from which the Book of Revelation says Armageddon will originate.
The notion of the Abrahamic God as the Devil was advanced by several religious authors throughout history. They make the case that the Biblical God is a divine force that wreaks suffering, death, and destruction and that tempts or commands humanity into committing mayhem and genocide. The 18th-century Anglo-American philosopher Thomas Paine wrote in The Age of Reason that whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the Word of God.
Basil Venitis, an Athenian orator, asserts clergy are abusing the faithful on a consistent basis. In various dioceses across the world, church leaders are going great lengths to avoid making amends with the same victims of abuse they claimed to be trying to make peace with. Facing waves of lawsuits by now-adult victims, churches react more like a big business than a sacred institution. Wealthy dioceses have claimed to be broke and taken the drastic act of filing for bankruptcy. Only when forced to open their ledgers in bankruptcy proceedings does it become clear that several of these dioceses were actually flush with assets that it could have made available to victims seeking restitution.
Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens plan a legal ambush to have Pope, the Unholy Father, arrested for crimes against humanity. They have asked a distinguished group of human rights lawyers headed by Geoffrey Robertson to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over the cover up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The Pope does not enjoy diplomatic immunity, because the Unholy See is recognized by the United Nations only as an observer State, not a regular State. Church's Augean stables need to be comprehensively cleaned up now.
Basil Venitis, an Athenian orator, points out the most corrupt bishop on Earth was Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, aka ayatollah Christollah, godfather of Chrysopege mafia, archbigot of Balkans, master of perjury, trial-fixer, chauvinist, antisemite, racist, grand robber, nymphomaniac gay, Vesuvius of vanity. Christollah's civil name was Christos Paraskevaidis. Christollah walked on dead bodies to reach the ivory throne, and he led a skulk of crucifoxes to devour the flock of faithful sheep.
Christollah organized myriad scandals, manipulated Greek justice, manipulated the election of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, tried to manipulate Greek politics, and tried to impose the religion specification on IDs. Christollah asked students whether they wanted to be minced meat or meat, explaining that foreigners want to turn Greeks into the meat-grinder, while meat is a solid thing! Christollah frequently criticized the principles and values of what he characterized the atheist Enlightenment, and which he contrasted to Christian values!
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out Chrysopege means Golden Fountain, but angry Greeks spell it Chrysopyge, which means Golden Buttocks! Bishop Kallinikos was the founder of Chrysopege and the spiritual father of Cristollah. Kallinikos tried to rape a cantor, chasing him around the Holy Table in the Piraeus Cathedral! Bishop Panteleimon of Attica was withdrawn from duties for sex orgies with young men and embezzlement of five million euros. In the wake of suggestions by fellow members of the unholy synod that he resign, Panteleimon's reaction was very revealing: If I speak, there will be an earthquake. I'll take many with me to my grave, including Christollah and Chrysopege! Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos predicted that a tsunami was coming and it would reach Christollah himself.
After the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, Greeks were shocked to hear Christollah attribute the attacks to despondent men who acted out of despair caused by the injustices of the Great Powers! In 2004 he criticized globalization as a bulldozer that is out to demolish everything, on account of those who want to rule the world without resistance or obstacles! In 2003, he fell out with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Istanbul, and Christollah' name was stricken off the Diptych of the Orthodox Church as a punishment. Christollah died of AIDS on January 17, 2008.
Churches already struggling to cope with myriad sex abuse scandals, have been hit by revelations of billion-euro thefts, opaque accounting, and Byzantine extravagance. While the grassroots faithful are being forced to make cutbacks, most bishops enjoy the trappings of the church huge wealth.
In many places, this blatant disparity, along with reports of mismanagement, misappropriation and pomposity have prompted the faithful to challenge church officials. They are accusing many bishops of just covering up the problem, as they did in the sex abuse scandal. Bishops are determined not to allow anyone to see behind the curtain into their parallel world of bulging bank accounts and hidden assets, which, in some cases, have buttressed their power for centuries. The church true assets, like cockroaches, remain in the shadows.
Church assets, accumulated over the centuries, are invested in many areas, including real estate, banks, academies, breweries, vineyards, media companies, and hospitals. Churches also derive income from stock holdings, foundations, and bequests. As a rule, all of this money flows into the accounts of the bishop's See. Only a bishop and his closest associates are familiar with this shadow budget, which tax authorities are not required to review. The public budgets of dioceses consist of far less than their total finances.
This complicated web is handled with such secrecy that not even the financial department heads of all dioceses openly discuss their finances with one another. Seemingly Byzantine structures make these finances even more difficult to fathom. Depending on the diocese, the administrators of the church's funds can be members of a church tax council, a diocesan tax panel, a financial board or an administrative board. Sometimes assets are also spun off into foundations.
Governments pay substantial sums of money for the maintenance and constant renovation of cathedrals and other church buildings. Most governments pay the salaries of religion teachers and in some countries, such as Greece, governments pay the salaries of all clergy. Substantial subsidies are paid for church conferences, church libraries, pastors who minister to police officers, inmates of prisons and psychiatric institutions, and the military. Some huge benefits towns make to their bishop, are based on century-old entitlements that politicians have never reviewed. Churches likes to point out how much they do for the poor and the weak, and to promote social cohesion, but governments foot the bill for many of these activities.
Stung by myriad charges of clergy sexual abuse, corruption, robberies, orgies, and coverup that reach the pope, patriarchs, and archbishops, churches face a crisis of empty pews and empty coffers. Churches need to address their own failures, acknowledge their own guilt, ask for forgiveness, and heal as a family. Those leaving Christianity outnumber converts by four-to-one.
In 1966, John Lennon claimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Nazarene. Lennon said: Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Lennon uttered those wise words at the height of Beatlemania. The British Invasion happened to also coincide with the decline of Christianity, especially in England, and especially amongst the younger generations. The mass hysteria of Beatlemania was analogous to religious ecstasy. Many fans truly saw the Beatles as musical messiahs. John, Paul, George, and Ringo reported that fans would bring sick people to their concerts, in the belief that the band had a divine healing presence.
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