Double whammy from the NSS:

Catholic Church braces itself for more damning revelations. The church actively colluded in protecting pedophile priests.

The Vatican’s obduracy claims another 70,000 innocent lives. And that’s just from dodgy abortions. Let’s not get started on HIV in Africa.

Still, it didn’t stop a million Spanish taking to the streets to encourage more unnecessary deaths. I really hope the Spanish government hold firm in its stance against these superstitious people.

And let’s not talk about the woman scraped to death by seashells. Oh wait, that was the 5th Century. Call off the hounds. Still the cock-hats are worried that it’ll stir up hate. Newsflash: raping children then covering up is doing fine in that department already.

They’re beginning to make me feel warm towards the clams who have been rather quiet of late.

Allowing pupils to opt out of school prayer is wrong, says Archbishop of Wales.

Can I? Please? Oh go on. Thanks. Here we go: TWAT!

Sadly, the unelected arch-arse of the end of beyond (I’m sure Wales is ver nice really), is off with the fairies. The days of deluded, self-selected arsewits having any influence over out daily lives are long gone. Shoo. Go away. And while we’re at it, please file quietly out of the House of Lords and hand over your lands an treasures to the National Trust and V&A. Get ye to the state of poverty your saviour espoused.

kthxbai

Update: The NSS has a pretty scathing response. ”Given he cannot stop the churches from emptying, where could be more fertile ground than pupils captive in school?” BWAH!

Oh, chaps. I love you and want your babies.

It’s almost like the barmaid reads the cockbucket.

There’s still a lot of incredulity and even outrage there. It looks like the powers are trying to hide behind the “it’s a constitutional requirement” defence, but chaps, your economic miracle might be in the shitter for now, but it’s really no excuse to make the entire country a laughing stock on the outer fringes of the civilised world.

The potential upfuck, which has been pointed out, is that if the padré warning people about not worshipping the virgin tree stump offends enough of the devout (-ly stupid) and they complain, he could get done for blasphemy.

Hilarity would most certainly ensue.

Anyhows, some more links for youe reading pleasure:

• The BBC has a Q&A in case you were in any doubt
• Padraig Reidy has a go in the Guardian
• More thoughtful pontiff-(geddit?!)-ication in the Reuters blogs

The legendary Björn from the even more legendary Abba has written a piece in the Grauniad strongly arguing against religion in schools. Well, *duh*. Sadly in the UK, we’re going in the opposite direction due to the policies of our former religious nutter prime minister. I like to posit that indoctrinating children in religion, Abrahamic or otherwise, is nothing less than child abuse. We limit plenty of other stuff to when they’re 18, so why not belief in sky fairies?

The comments on this piece are pretty good too.

As a bonus, feel free to enjoy Marcus Brigstock’s Abrahamic faiths rant.

The internet is an amazing thing. Get some press release of other and within seconds you can find out what agenda someone has. In this case an religious nutter anti-choice one.

Cocks.