I love this pope! He's hysterical!!

No I'm serious. I've often said as a scientific naturalist who would like people to critically exam their faith at best but at the least confine the fighting amongst religions, this pope is a "god send" (lol). He has restored interfaith tension, made the biggest Christian church sillier than ever and he constantly makes a fool of himself. (This is important since when religions aren't at odds they attack homosexuals and secular society and we have progress to be made so it is helpful when they are distracted). Recently here is how he plans to get ride of pedophilia in the priesthood (thanks Ron for the info):

Pope Benedict XVI has instructed Roman Catholics to pray “in perpetuity” to cleanse the Church of paedophile clergy. All dioceses, parishes, monasteries, convents and seminaries will be expected to organise continuous daily prayers to express penitence and to purify the clergy.

Vatican officials said that every parish or institution should designate a person or group each day to conduct continuous prayers for the Church to rid itself of the scandal of sexual abuse by clergy. Alternatively, churches in the same diocese could share the duty. Prayer would take place in one parish for 24 hours, then move to another.

Vatican watchers said that there was no known precedent for global prayer on a specific issue of this kind. There are about one billion Roman Catholics worldwide. (source)

Now I'm not surprised since the level of cognitive dissidence it must take to be pope must be truly phenomenal. To spend so many days convincing yourself of these lies and then telling others about them claiming they are true, that can't be easy (but at least you get to live in a palace).

What's more on the same site I found a list of the top 20 offenses to religion. I was disappointed to see that South Park was not included and Life of Brian was so low, but they are really funny and insightful. These are the growing pains of the modern world shedding off it's past (religion) and while the past will always be with us, it's influence will degenerate.