por Elven Paladin em 18 Abr 2010, 20:40
Acho que vi em algum lugar que o Dawkin afirmou não ter dito isso, mas enfim...
Citando o próprio, na
Richard Dawkins Foundation:
Needless to say, I did NOT say "I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI" or anything so personally grandiloquent. You have to remember that The Sunday Times is a Murdoch newspaper, and that all newspapers follow the odd custom of entrusting headlines to a sub-editor, not the author of the article itself.E quanto ao que vai acontecer, eu tenho a mesma postura com o Michael Ruse ( ou melhor, eu concordo em partes em ideal - eu sequer acho que a Igreja Católica Pós-Vaticano II lembra o que a Igreja Católica sempre foi- e na prática, a "Mater et Magista" e seus seguidores continuarão com a mesma postura "Holier than thou" e ninguém responderá pelos seus atos ):
Recently, the New Atheists' most prominent representative, Richard Dawkins, wrote a highly emotive piece for the Washington Post, in which he derided the present pope and expressed glee and satisfaction that such a person was now leading the Catholic Church. In Dawkins's judgment, not only was this no less than the Church deserved, but such leadership could only hasten the Church's demise. I thought at the time that Dawkins was over the top and wrong. I now think that he was right and that it was I who was wrong. Let me say at once that, unlike Dawkins, I don't necessarily want to see this as the end of religion or even of the Catholic Church in some form. I stress that although I cannot share the beliefs of Christians, I respect them and applaud the good that is done in the name of their founder. But I do now think that as presently constituted, the Catholic Church is corrupt and should be eradicated.
You might argue that this is to go too far. But what is the alternative? Vatican Three, perhaps? The Church could open its doors to married priests, give women a proper role (if we can appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, why cannot a woman become a member of the College of Cardinals?), make a place within for gays and other minorities. It could recognize birth control for the blessing that it is and stop insisting that the moment the sperm gets to the ovum, nothing else matters but to preserve this entity, even though such a stand causes unnumbered cases of pain and sadness (and certainly does little to reduce the abortion rate) and leads the Catholic bishops to oppose universal health care, quite apart from the fact that it all flies in the face of the official philosophy of the Church, Thomism. And I could continue.
This will not happen. This last week, the Pope appointed an archbishop for Los Angeles. The appointee is a member of Opus Dei, for goodness's sake. You don't have to subscribe to the nuttiness of The Da Vinci Code to know what this means: he belongs to an organization that throve under Generalissimo Franco, about as right-wing as it is possible to get. Far from trying to reform, the Church is digging in and digging in.
Dawkins is right. The moral mess gets worse and worse. Hope of change is illusory. Götterdämmerung beckons. Although we have different motives and undoubtedly hope for different outcomes, I join Dawkins in welcoming the prospect.
"Eu não sou católica, mas considero os princípios cristãos - que tem suas raízes no pensamento grego e que, no transcorrer dos séculos, alimentaram todas as nossas civilizações européias - como algo que uma pessoa não pode renunciar sem se aviltar" Simone Weil
When you decide to grant power to government, start by thinking "What powers would I allow the government to have over me if I knew that my worst enemy in the world was going to be in charge of this government?" - Hastings & Rosenberg.