HYPOCRISY RULES THE ROOST

PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH

Almost everyday you can read about a scandal involving one denomination or the other. Of course the higher ups condemn the behaviour, ask forgiveness, slip a few bucks to the family, and back to business as usual. That hasn't changed since religion was invented. Yet the ignorant still blindly follow without question. HYPOCRITES EVERYONE. Below is just a sampling of various 'sins' the bible preaches against yet the leaders feel exempt.

THOU SHALL NOT STEAL
"Embezzlement seen in 85% of Catholic dioceses" Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Jan 5, 2007 by Laurie Goodstein.
A survey by researchers at Villanova University has found that a surprising 85 percent of Roman Catholic dioceses that responded had discovered embezzlement of church funds in the past five years, with 11 percent reporting that more than $500,000 had been stolen. The Catholic Church has some of the most rigorous financial guidelines of any denomination, specialists in church ethics said, but the survey found that the guidelines are often ignored in parishes. And when no one is looking, the cash that goes into the collection plate does not always get deposited into the church's bank account. One church insider had this to say "As a faith-based organization, we place a lot of trust in our folks, We think if you work for a church -- you're a volunteer or a priest -- the last thing on your mind is to do something dishonest, But people are people, and there's a lot of temptation there, and with the cash-based aspect of how churches operate, it's pretty easy." So much for Thou Shall Not Steal. Hypocrite. (WWJD? Drive a BMW of course!)

NO SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE
"Although religious denominations do not audit clerical infidelity (or divorce), outside sources do. In 1993 The Journal of Pastoral Care reported a survey of Southern Baptist pastors in which 14 percent acknowledged that they had engaged in "sexual behavior inappropriate to a minister." More startling, 70 percent said that they had counseled at least one woman who had had intercourse with another minister. In 1988, a survey of nearly 1,000 Protestant clergy by Leadership magazine found that 12 percent admitted to sexual intercourse outside marriage. Seventeen percent of these affairs occurred with people they were counseling, and 52 percent involved members, ministers or other leaders of their own congregation. An additional 18 percent disclosed that they had kissed, fondled or masturbated with someone other than their spouse. When asked what consequences they had suffered—in their marriages or their careers—as a result of their sexual adventures, only 6 percent said that they had lost their jobs. And nearly a third reported no adverse consequences of any kind. Hypocrites. (Guess it's better than molesting little boys)

DIVORCE IS A SIN
June 28, 1997, Newsweek reported:
"Although he wasn’t married himself, Jesus had some rather clear teachings on the subject. Adultery was sin, he declared, and that included even lustful looks at another woman. He was tough on divorce, too, saying that anyone who divorces and marries another also commits adultery. But the authority of Scripture isn’t what it used to be — even of those who preach it from the pulpit. In recent years the divorce rate for Protestant clergy has risen to match the general population’s.

"Born-again" Christians are more likely to go through a marital split than are non-Christians, according to a new study by the Barna Research Group. Using statistics drawn from a nationwide survey, the Barna data show 11 percent of the adult population currently is divorced but that 25 percent of all adults have experienced at least one divorce. Among "born-again" Christians, 27 percent currently are divorced or previously have been divorced, compared with 24 percent among adults who are not "born again." Surprisingly, the Barna report said, the Christian group whose adherents have the highest likelihood of getting divorced are Baptists. The only group to surpass Baptists were Christians associated with non-denominational Protestant churches. Hypocrites. (Newt's on his 3rd, I'm sure #4 is in the works)

THALL SHALT NOT COVET A NEIGHBORS WIFE
"Children fathered by priest settle suit" By Michael S. Rosenwald, Globe Staff, 1/30/2004
The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston reached a settlement yesterday in the case of a priest who fathered two children with one of his parishioners, a Needham woman, and then fled her home the night she died of a drug overdose. Church officials announced an agreement with the family of Rita Perry, who died in 1973, in the case against the Rev. James Foley. The priest acknowledged having a lengthy affair with Perry, and paternity tests eventually proved he was the father of two of her four children, Emily and James Perry. The archdiocese issued a strongly worded statement in which Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley condemned sexual relationships between priests and parishioners.

Oooo a strongly worded statement! Hello the woman OVERDOSED on drugs while partying with his holiness!!! Let alone fathered two kids. Hypocrite. (It's ok, their hetero)

THALL SHALT NOT KILL
Catholic priest convicted of nun's 1980 murder By Harriet Ryan, Court TV, TOLEDO, Ohio
A jury in this heavily Catholic community convicted a priest Thursday of murdering a nun 26 years ago in the sacristy of a hospital chapel. The panel deliberated six hours before finding the Rev. Gerald Robinson guilty of a single count of murder in the Easter eve killing of Sr. Margaret Ann Pahl. Judge Thomas Osowik immediately sentenced Robinson, 68, to a sentence of 15 years to life in prison. Prosecutors contend Robinson murdered the 71-year-old nun because he was frustrated with his assignment at the hospital, which was run by her order, and disliked what the priest called her "dominant personality." She was stabbed 31 times, including nine times through an altar cloth in the shape of an inverted cross.

Get that? a 71 year-old nun, stabbed 31 times, 9 times in the shape of an inverted cross!! Hypocrite. (Holy pissed off Batman!)

THALL SHALT NOT LIE
"Priest Is Charged In Van Bulow Case" By JONATHAN FRIENDLY, NEW YORK TIMES, June 1985
An indictment unsealed here today charges that a Roman Catholic priest lied in a sworn statement he gave in 1983 to help Claus von Bulow get a new trial on charges of trying to kill his wife with insulin injections. Thall shalt not lie nor bare false witness, a Double Whammy! Hypocrite. (I crossed my fingers while swearing on the bible!)

WAKE UP ALL YE FAITHFUL YOU ARE BEING LIED TO.