Funny as in "Fuck You"

[eumelia]

It's ironic like rain on your wedding day to wake up on Israel's national Holocaust Remembrance Day and read this:

A retired Italian bishop has sparked a furious row after quotes attributed to him suggested claims of sexual abuse in the Catholic church are a Jewish conspiracy, a British newspaper reported on Monday.

A website quoted Giacomo Babini, emeritus bishop of Grosseto, as saying he believed a "Zionist attack" was behind the criticism, considering how "powerful and refined" the criticism is, the Guardian daily reported.

There aren't enough hours in the day I swear.

Expect more posts about Antisemitisim, the callous use of History and Saturday's Doctor Who episode before this day is done.

Comments

[meretia]

Okay, that's just stupid. Zionists are trying to bring the Church down by... objecting to molestation of children? Oh, those terrible Zionists. But I've also read bishops over here in America making amount to "those dirty children knew what they were doing and led our poor, pure priests astray on purpose!", so I guess they're just grasping at every straw they can to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.

Men like him are why Mom's family is Catholic, but I am very much not.

[majoline]

+1 your reply for it is everything I wanted to say.

[dharma_slut]

of course the criticism sounds "powerful." It should.

And "refined?" As in "well practiced perhaps? Like we haven't made those same accusations for so long now?

[lilacsigil]

This would be the same church that was just saying that persecuting them is like anti-Semitism, would it? They can work Zionist Conspiracies from both sides!

[roga]

Note to self: find some what the fuuuck icons.

[ironed_orchid]

So first it was the same sort of prejudice as antisemitism, and now it's all a big Jewish conspiracy? Fail upon fail.

[silveradept]

No, there aren't enough hours. For that, I usually use the phrase "stupid, stupid rat creatures" in a big sweeping arc.

That said, I thought the "Blame Canada, err, Jews!" theory was at least six hundred years out of style (if only being about seventy years out of major practice at this point...)

[ajnabieh]

Um, the fuck? That doesn't even make sense. (This is my problem, I keep expecting people to make sense about this shit. "Be racist fucktards, but be logical!")

Also +1 for your icon.

[amethystfirefly]

I just don't have the words.

[aquaeri]

I guess it's a vague kind of relief that white science fiction authors/editors did not fail as spectacularly during RaceFail as the Catholic Church is failing now.

I'm really sorry that Jews have to take so much of the shit. I expect I (as a female atheist from a Lutheran culture) will also get some share of the shit, but only once everyone on the planet has jumped on their case for the anti-semitism.