Here at God & State, we’ve been warning since the smoke was coming out of the chimney that Pope Benedict XVI was going to set the Catholic Church back hundreds of years with his archaic way of thinking and acting, and now finally people are seeing what we’ve been talking about.

The recent controversy began when the Pope decided it was time to lift the excommunication of a British bishop who denies the Holocaust. This is especially offensive in Germany, where denial is a crime punishable by jail time.

Now, the world is fighting back against the Pope.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the Pope’s decision, saying,

“This should not be allowed to pass without consequences. This is not just a matter, in my opinion, for the Christian, Catholic and Jewish communities in Germany. The Pope and the Vatican should clarify unambiguously that there can be no denial and that there must be positive relations with the Jewish community overall.”

Additionally, eminent liberal Catholic theologian Hermann Haering called for the resignation of the Pope.

In the United States, Cardinal Francis George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, took this as an opportunity to praise the Pope’s “act of mercy,” while denouncing what the bishop had said regarding the Holocaust.

And in continuing coverage of the Pope’s quest to time travel back to the good ‘ol days, he appointed a far right Austrian bishop who warned against children reading the Harry Potter series due to its “Satanism.” That’s some solid progress this Church is making.

I suppose there is good and bad to come of this. The good (for people like myself) is that people are finally looking at the Church and seeing it for what it is, allowing this inquisitory reaction to start the crumbling of the walls of the Church. The more people see that this Church (not Christianity in general) is really a front for an above-the-law, middle-ages-living, company of criminals, the quicker the world can move past religion holding everyone down. Rearranging living locations is not the solution to sexual predators in churches, and accepting Holocaust deniers is not the way to make amends with anyone.

Taking all of the “progress” that the church has made in the last hundred years or so and trying to turn it all back is not the way to advance society. There are holy wars all over the world, and going back in time is not the way to stop them. The only solution to any of this is for parents to stop forcing their children into these cults at such a young age. Allow one generation to be raised religion free and I will guarantee you that there will be more advancements in world peace in that generation than in any other single generation since the creation of religions.

But in the meantime, I’ll sit back as an independent observer and watch the Catholic Church and the Papacy crumble for all the world to see.

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