I mean, really, if God created all men (and, to editorialize for fairness, women) equal, what other than nasty wrong things do they need to hide? What's in the damn Vatican basement that only the pope gets to see, and why? Going by THEIR instruction manual, which few of them bother to read or implement, or even comprehend as it was meant to be understood, it seems to me that no (wo)man is more than human since Christ, and even he took human form - therefore, logic dictates to me that we should ALL be in on the whole story and all the proceedings and have access to all the evidence, even if we are not to usurp God's job and judge..

I'm a neo-shamanic sorcerer, so maybe I got no biz stickin my nose in, but those sickos got no biz stickin their, uh, you know what I was about to say. I know some very good smart educated Christians who actually read the book and took it to heart. I dated one, even. She was (well, probably still is) an ordained evangelical minister. In a very unconventional (by their standards) relationship. She intended to complete her pHD and teach at a Christian university. Another is a professor of chemistry now, and when we run into each other at the goth club, he's more interested in hearing about my beliefs than telling me his - though he does share his, pretty freely, when asked. He said once, to heavily paraphrase, "Jesus hung out with the drunks and the whores and the lepers and the lost, not the anointed. He listened to them. He helped show them the way not from on high, but standing among them." He is a humble, unassuming, brilliant, and non-judgmental guy. I think, the epitome of what their good book tries to teach. But I'm just a heathen, so what would I know except that if I ever caught anyone of any faith abusing a child the way we're discussing, I might break a law or six and several of their biblical commandments.