A Fly On An Elephant’s Ass…

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atheism, Atheist, bible, history, religion

I don’t know if Helen of Troy launched a thousand ships, but a tweet can definitely launch a thousand words. Conversations on twitter more frequently than not, however, never come at the right time for long discourse. This morning, for instance, 6am and I am merely sneaking a peak at my iPad to see a dozen or so notifications flashing up.

The Enemy Within…

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atheism, Atheist, bible, catholicism, christianity, religion, SECULARISM

As is commonly the case with me, I don’t search out subjects to write about they find me. I had noticed this week a few new followers with the words ‘The Clergy Project’ in the bio’s.

I will acknowledge this is a new one on me as I had never heard of this before, now I was curious and decided to do a little digging. What I found both surprised and fascinated me and at the same time I found it a touch unsavoury.

Sins Of The Fathers – The Men In Black

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catholic church, christianity, priest sex abuse cases, religion, the vatican cover up

I watched a fascinating documentary last night Frontline: Secrets of the Vatican. I hope many Christians and more importantly Catholics watched it too as it would have been an eye opener…… The documentary was on the child sex abuse cases from the Catholic Church.

What was shocking for me was the amount of cases and the spread worldwide of the cover up by the Vatican.  The Catholic church seem to see it as a recent issue, in a minority of diocese, but let us be straight about this, the reported cases are all over the world in 26 countries ( and there will be more I’m sure).