Link of the Day: "Catholicism 2.0"

I haven't posted in so long that I had to look up the html to space this post correctly. Down to business:

With accusations ranging from corruption to criminal conspiracy, the Catholic Church's holy week isn't looking so, you know, holy. Maureen Dowd, an excellent columnist at the New York Times had a scathing retort to the Church's failure to publicly admit the extent of its wrongs. She makes excellent points against the church's rampant homophobia, medieval stance on birth control, and gender inequality. If you are really fired up head over to the comments thread!

My favorite comment (by someone named Malcolm in NYC):

Catholicism 2.0 is full of bugs and keeps crashing. It is time for Catholicism 2.1. Installation instructions:

Step 1. Select 2.0 version. Remove Hierarchy, including Pope and Cardinals.

Step 2. Delete the following files: Gays are Bad; Priests should be Celibate; Don't Use Birth Control; Conceal Pedophiles; Blame the Victims; and No Women Priests. You may delete further files that you find offensive at this point.

Step 3. Thoroughly disinfect remaining files.

Step 4. Install 'Gospels' . (This was missing from the 2.0 version, and may be the main reason it kept malfunctioning).

Step 5. Install new operating system.

This system should operate much better than the old one.