«Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, unwittingly reveals what draws the new atheists towards the Catholic - abuse story:... «Odious as the physical abuse of children by priests undoubtedly is, I suspect that it may do them
less lasting
damage than the mental abuse of bringing them up Catholic
in the
first place», [http://richarddawkins.net/articles/118?page=2].
For instance, assuming there were fires on the premises of two homes — an occupied home and a vacant home — the fire taking
place at the former would,
in theory, result
in lesser damage since it would likely be reported
first by its inhabitants and would be put out more quickly.
A few years ago, when I was
first launched into becoming the amateur investigator of what's up with whatsupwiththat, and the flood of really well crafted (certainly not done by ignorant people) anonymous emails conveying little known proof of Obama's secret Islamitude, and other lies that would
damage Rush Limbaugh's reputation if he were to personally deliver them... Ah Say, Ah Say (Foghorn Leghorn accent) when I was
first launched into all that, from reading prodigious comment - storms
in many
places, including judithcurry.com, but also invading more liberal venues, I concluded what we have here is
less a movement for anything, than a massively stroked and stoked «Great Liberal Hating and Baiting Cult», with a very big self - organizing component, but definitely nourished
in all sorts of ways by the folks you can read about
in Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Meyer (best book yet of its class and I've read many).