I get a kick about all of the attacks by atheists on Catholic priests. Is anyone at all surprised that the founder of NAMBLA is an atheist?

No. I'm glad you pointed this out.

So, I'm supposed to believe in a god now?

Even if that's true, I bet most of the members are Christians. Every day there's a new sex scandal involving some right-wing Christian, priest, or pastor.

Religion and perversion are mutually exclusive subjects; but the RC Church constantly harps on guilt, morality, sexual behavior, etc. so much that they are seen as sexual hypocrites. Remember last year that the Pope tried to cover up the perversion of a group of priests in Chile?

So? The founder of NAMBLA being an atheist doesn't prove that God exists so what's your point?

Fyi, Thorstad was only one of the co-founders and he was a Pentecostal at that point in his life.

Most people, atheist, christian and otherwise, object to how the Catholic Church handled, and by that I mean covered up, pedophile priests. This is not an attack on Priests in general, it is an attack on a very unjust system.

So, how about the Pope and his help of all the raping priests to avoid prosecution for their crimes ?

The difference, of course, is that David Thorstad speaks for no one but himself, while the Pope DOES speak with authority for all Catholics.

Thus, Thorstad's views are not related to anyone else's, while the Pope's criminal complicity DOES speak for Catholics, who are by extension of that position, now complicit in the crimes of the Catholic Church.

Catholic priests are the scum of the earth.

I'm lost by your logic. An atheist is a pedophile, therefore no atheist should speak out against pedophilia?

And let's check the prison records for how many Christians are sentenced for the same crime.

Is that what they told you at your initiation?