I don’t know how long this video will be up, so watch it sooner rather than later. It’s the latest episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, in which they take on the Vatican, holding nothing back:
Penn & Teller: Bullshit – The Vatican from Stian Solberg on Vimeo.
And, of course, there’s the inevitable reaction from Bill “Eye of Sauron” Donohue:
Number one: I will enjoy hell if it is there.
Number two: Lawyers that spend their lives sueing the church are also tiresome. Lets get the names of the molesting priests (and all child molesters) and hang them from trees.
Number three: I was school in a catholic high school. The old saying is if you want a atheist have a jesuit in charge of his (her education).
Number four: Bill donohue is a fucking retard. Is this brainless idiot for real?
Number five: RICO-Why is the catholic church not prosucuted under this law.
Number six: TAX ALL RELIGIONS OUT OF EXISTENCE. FUCKIING DO IT NOW.
Number seven: Penn and Teller Rock.
Hey Blackswan,
I’m not sure how much of what you’re saying is serious and how much is meant as a joke, but I should be clear that AmericanFreethought.com does not advocate violence against anyone–religious or otherwise.
Fun and informative too- I had no idea about Rat-fink-zinger’s direct involvement in the Father Feel-Good cover-ups, or Pres. Bush’s Get Out Of Jail Free card for him.
Just to give the Eye a taste of his own logic, if he’s going to hold CBS responsible for Penn & Teller’s show, a la Guilt By Association, then I submit that Donohue should have his own name put on the sex offender registry.
And did anyone else catch the Nazi reference? After the church’s complicity with the Third Reich’s agenda, that takes either willful ignorance of history on the Eye’s part or just plain gall. Sorry Donohue, but you don’t get to play the Nazi card.
The video was, of course, well made and in line with Penn & Teller’s love of debunkery.
But regarding Blackswan’s comments: How do you reconcile point Number two (“Lawyers that spend their lives sueing [sic] the church are also tiresome”) with point Number five (“RICO-Why is the catholic church not prosucuted under this law”).
Plaintiffs & lawyers who sued the Roman Catholic diocese for the cover-up and reassignment of sex-offending priests have had greater impact in changing ecclesiastical negligence, abuse, and deceptive chicanery than any other efforts thus far. More power to them, and more power to protections offered by the civil court system.