Judgement Day

First post of 2010 and the news is I've received an email from my solicitor asking me to meet him at the Four Courts soon for settlement talks with legal representatives of the church.
I really have no idea what kind of money we're talking here but I'd expect it to be a derisory amount as the 'holy' church isn't too fond of parting with its money. After all, anyone who has ever visited the Vatican will understand their need for money.
In fact we've seen in previous cases over the years where the church has fought tooth and nail to prevent any kind of settlements being paid to victims of clerical abuse.
A few years back our government entered into an agreement with a group of 18 congregations to limit the amount that could be paid out to victims in order to protect themselves against the many claims that they were expecting. Why did our government do this deal?? Why does our government continue to fail the very people they are meant to protect??? NAMA is another example of this governments complete inability to deal with a problem... any problem.
This is why I hate the church. The church talks about love but is inherently evil to its very core. Some priests blame the victims for the crime, their denial of the facts being akin to that of a psycopath, completely unable to admit guilt. And yet these monsters were protected by a system geared towards the making of money and its own self preservation.

The church is not about love, respect, dignity, it has no moral standards. Time and time again the membership of the church fail the people by their selfish acts and wanton disregard of the public. Take the priest in Kerry who gave a character reference to a rapist and queued up to shake his hand after he was sentenced.
The priest in Cork whose outburst over the amount of tax he had to pay on his property portfolio would have been funny if it didn't convey the underlying question... "where did he get the money to buy all these houses????"

The church is about you and me... it's about itself and it's about time we turned our back on it for good... we'd so much better off without it.