Richard Dawkins planning to have Pope Benedict arrested over 'crimes against humanity'

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Richard Dawkins planning to have Pope Benedict arrested over 'crimes against humanity'

Richard Dawkins, the atheist campaigner and evolutionist, is planning to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested when he comes to Britain later this year for "crimes against humanity".

Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, are seeking advice from human rights lawyers as to what legal action can be taken against the pope over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.

It emerged this weekend that in 1985 when he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases, the pope signed a letter arguing that the “good of the universal church” should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys.

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“This is a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence," Dawkins, who wrote The God Delusion, said.

“This man is not above or outside the law. The institutionalised concealment of child rape is a crime under any law and demands not private ceremonies of repentance or church-funded payoffs, but justice and punishment," Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great, said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7578024/Richard-Dawkins-planning-to-have-Pope-Benedict-arrested-over-crimes-against-humanity.html

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1. Good luck with that one

Just like trying to arrest any member of Bushco. the Pope will have the Police and military of Britain protecting him.

[MineralMan]

2. Actually, what Dawkins and Hitchens are doing is attempting

to get more publicity for themselves. There isn't going to be any arrest of the Pope, although I think he should be brought to trial. Dawkins and Hitchens do not speak for atheists other than themselves, but they pretend to.

As a strong atheist, myself, I am offended by their grandstanding. Arrests and prosecutions are not done by individuals, no matter what their beliefs are. I consider the chances of the Pope being arrested and charged in the UK to be as close to zero as is possible.

The only effect of these "pronouncements" is to further anger the religious against atheism. We have more than enough of that already.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Oh yea, that's going to happen...the Pope has diplomatic immunity in 170 countries. n/t