Much to Confess

British writer and scientist Richard Dawkins did not like the Pope's "Thought for the Day" for many reasons. Key among them, the "repugnant idea of original sin." "We've already had what little apology we are going to get for the raped children, the AIDs-sufferers, the centuries spent attacking Jews, science, women and "heretics," the (tax-deductible) methods of fleecing the gullible...But (Ratzinger) is also guilty of promoting one of the most repugnant ideas to occur to a human mind: 'Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.'"

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