Mar 28 2010
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“ It’s possible we should start wondering if the church is a criminal organization that in this country, anyway, should be broken up using RICO statutes. One of the few areas where I agreed with George Bush was in the notion that a country providing safe haven to terrorists should itself be treated as a terrorist organization. Morally this isn’t a difficult one to figure out; a country that keeps house for a bin Laden and doesn’t assist other countries in trying to catch him is a rogue state, one that should be booted out of the community of nations. Its embassies should be shuttered, there should be sanctions, and its assets should probably even be seized. We don’t permit countries that harbor terrorists to participate in international society, but the Catholic Church — an organization that has been proven over and over again to systematically enable child molesters, right up now to the level of the Pope — is given a free pass. In fact the Church is not only not sanctioned in any serious way, it gets to retain its outrageous tax-exempt status, which makes its systematic child abuse, in this country at least, a government-subsidized activity.
— Matt Taibbi, “The Catholic Church is a Criminal Enterprise” (via smart-tart)
