Pope Benedict XVI toured Auschwitz, and was upset by his visit.
"In a place like this, words fail; in the end, there can be only a dread silence, a silence which itself is a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?"
What a cowardly, evasive, self-serving, pius pious piece of shit. And what he said, too. And today, while genocide is going on in Darfur and throughout Africa, while AIDS is on its way to kill one third of the population of that sad continent, while a thoroughly ruinous, unjust, and unjustified war is being prosecuted in Iraq, while the land of the free is contemplating a final solution to the brown-skinned people who clean our toilets and serve our tacos, while the earth itself is being raped by greedy, short-sighted SOBs and hurtling toward an environmental crisis that will make the holocaust look puny in terms of numbers killed and populations extinguished, while the Pope’s own Holy Land is torn apart by suicide bombers on one hand and self-serving nativist hawks on the other, what are the Pope’s hundreds of thousands of priests thundering about in their hundreds of thousands of pulpits? Gay marriage, the right of a state to force women to carry a foetus to term, the morality of fucking with condoms and the assorted immoralities propagated by all those brown people, or turbaned people, or atheists. It makes me sick.
And to answer Ratzo’s question, perhaps God’s silence is always and only apparent in retrospect. Or it may be that God was screaming His head off then, and is screaming His head off now, and nobody’s listening. Or maybe, just maybe, the persistent delusion of the faithful that God speaks to them and their mad longing to hear His voice is deafening them to the worldwide cries of human misery.
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