Episode 42 - Religion Inc. Files Chapter 11

It’s Humpday with the Dudes From Dallas … and in that spirit, we’re going to be talking a lot about humping.  Sadly, it’s not the good kind … But don’t let that discourage you, because you’re gonna like what we say about the aforementioned humping. 

It’s a bad week for religion, Uganda police arrested an American man, who claimed to be in the country doing missionary work, after reviewing a video that showed him striking out at hotel workers and using racial slurs.  He blames an illness, but could it be more? 

We’ve all heard and read about the Pennsylvania Catholic Priests and the situation there.  However, there are some details that you may not be aware of, details that involve a “Bat-signal” of sorts. 

Pennsylvania’s two-year investigation into sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic church revealed myriad disturbing details of abuse by hundreds of priests going back several decades. 

Among the more horrific examples was a “ring of predatory priests” in Pittsburgh who shared victims among themselves, produced child pornography within rectories and parishes, and marked their victims as potential targets for other clergy by giving them gold crosses to wear. 

If that wasn’t enough, the Catholic church has now become a hotspot of the #MeToo movement.  Several Nuns have spoken out to the Associated Press and revealed they too have been the victims of sexual abuse at the hands of priests.  The sisters are going public in part because of years of inaction by church leaders.  Sexual abuse, abortions and blaming the victim are all apart of this story. 

We, as a society, are headed towards a meltdown.  Consider this, in Australia, COLES stores around the country were closed for more than three hours one morning due to a technical glitch affecting the supermarket’s cash registers. 

It’s understood the issue was nationwide but not all stores were closed. Coles did not inform customers of the store closures through Facebook or Twitter, and because of that, people all over the country lost their minds, venting frustrations online.   

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