World Truth Day is a counter-point to World Youth Day. World Youth Day is being held in Sydney Australia from the 15th to the 20th of July 2008. It is a religious event that values faith over reason, mythology over fact, and dogma over science. Targeted as it is to 'youth', this makes it especially counterproductive to the advancement of humanity.
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The Ethics of the Catholic Church

 

The ethics of the Catholic Church are well illustrated by the following:

 

 

· Crusades – the Popes ordered the invasion of neighbouring countries and the murder of millions for not believing in a sky fairy they had never heard of.

 

·  Inquisition – the Catholic Church tortured millions for believing in a set of gods slightly different from the current dogma.

 

·  Current Pope Benedict – used to head the actual Church body that ran the Inquisition (since renamed Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), so is quite comfortable with that approach. 

·   Benedict reaffirms his infallibility and demands total obedience: “For Benedict, if your conscience tells you something that differs from his [Papal] teaching, it is a false conscience, a sign not of personal integrity but of sin. And so he has silenced conscientious dissent within the Church, and insisted on absolutism in matters like abortion, end-of-life decisions, priestly celibacy, the role of women, homosexuality, and interfaith dialog.” Time, p51, 9 October 2006.

  

·  Kidnapping of children (Edgardo Mortara) as late as 1858.

 

· Sexual abuse – most of the current Church administration abetted sexual abuse of children, by rotating rather than sacking the offending priests.

 

·  Arrest of Galileo – for daring to state the evidence about the solar system, when contrary to Church dogma.

 

· Burning of Geordano Bruno at the stake – for suggesting god was more like a universal ethic than a little old man who throws down thunderbolts.

 

·  Papal behaviour – the historical record shows that most Popes have indulged in plenty of fornication, child sex, polygamy, murder. Read more. [link coming]

 

·  Justice – torture the innocent in order to let off the guilty*.

 

* As an example of Christian ethics, the core Christian paradigm, as reported by most authorities to the present day, is the 'atonement' – the claim that God so loved the world that he arranged the torture and murder of an innocent third party (Jesus), under the pretence that punishing the innocent would enable him to let off the guilty.

 

Picture this: a judge says 'I find you John Smith guilty of robbing the bank, so I will grab you Fred Jones, an innocent passer by, and torture you to death'. Barking mad! Perhaps that is why the greatest Christian nation on earth – the USA – perpetrated their crimes in Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – they can’t tell love from torture.

 

 

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The New South Wales Government claims that World Youth Day will deliver $150 million in economic benefits for the state of NSW. The report that produced this figure, however, has been exempted from the Freedom of Information Act because it would be 'against the public interest'. We suggest that it is very much in the public's interest to know what return the state is getting for the 86 million dollars of taxpayer's money it is paying to stage this event.