Catholic Bashing Penn and Teller Must Go

If the Catholic church can't stand up to a little scrutiny, maybe they should call it quits.

Seriously, if you're scared of some criticism towards your religion , you really should be examining the validity of the religion you practice.

How do I get on the mailing list for that DVD??
I love Penn & Teller and I don't get Showtime.
I am a survivor of 12 years of nuns and Catholic " education ".
Don't forget that if you don't like something on TV, USE THE OFF BUTTON!!!!!

It may be "speech" which you "hate", but the phrase " hate speech " is something entirely different (refer to Hitler's speeches for examples). If Penn and Teller had encouraged people to hate catholics, that would be hate speech. But they didn't do that, they simply quoted facts. You may dispute some of those facts, but the most important and scandalous ones are either easily verifiable or are actually the church 's OWN STATED POLICIES.

Fact: In the face of a global HIV epidemic, the church forbids the use of condoms under any circumstances. So, the church causes deaths .

Fact: In 2008, the church opposed a UN resolution decriminalising gay people worldwide. So, the church promotes anti-gay prejudice and intolerance.

Fact: The church's policy has been to protect it's reputation even at the expense of protecting paedophile clergy and allowing them to continue to abuse children . So, the church allowed children to be raped.

These three facts out of many, many unpleasant church charactaristics cannot be reasonably disputed. Even if you disregard every other allegation in the P+T programme, these should be ample proof that there is something, to put it mildly, highly dodgy about the catholic church.

But none of this is an attack on catholics (my entire family and most of my friends are catholics). To try to brand a programme which merely states facts about the catholic church as "an attack on catholics" or as "hate speech" is a disingenuous attempt to abuse a very important principle, that of tolerance, in an attempt to protect a particular organisation.

I do seem to recall Benedict, while still a cardinal, blaming the priest-pedophile scandal on the larger American society -- something about us being such corrupt hedonists that even American priests are infected into doing what they wouldn't otherwise do. This was before a similar scandal was uncovered in Ireland. I don't believe he has explained how American society so fully infected the priesthood in Ireland.

I'm glad the Catholics don't run this country. It would not be much different than living in Iran. Blasphemy might be punishable by death.

Here is the video of that episode. They are harsh on the Catholic leadership but are not discriminatory towards Catholics. The Catholic Leagues arguments for removal are highly disingenuous.

http://vimeo.com/6321872

As a recovered catholic, I think it is this church that needs to go. Penn and Teller may have said mean things about the catholic church, but have they raped any altar boys, systematically wiped out entire groups of people, burned any witches, or abused orphan children ? No? Well, who's the bad guy?
"...previous examples of their malicious assaults..." Obviously, none of the above atrocities listed above is considered to be bad enough for the church to act. Oh, and BTW, Mother Teresa was a closet atheist. Go Penn and Teller!!