World's three great faiths face unprecedented crises

Mpls (red)Star Tribune / New York Times News Service ^ | 6/8/02 | Laurie Goodstein

[Valin]

The past eight months have not been easy for believers.

Roman Catholics learned that some of the princes of their church protected priests who sexually abused children. Muslims have seen their scholars condemned and their scriptures deconstructed for signs that Islam encourages terrorism. Jews in Europe have suffered a wave of anti-Semitic attacks as world opinion hardened toward Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians.

[KissOfTheSith]

>The UN Quietly Wages War On Religion ...

Sometime ago, a "No current Freeper by that name" made a point about this:

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But, as we try to figure out what's going on in the world, think of this bit of strangeness:

1) The Western Establishment is at war with "radical" Islam for fomenting terrorism...

2) The Western Establishment is at war with the Catholic Church for tacitly accepting pedophilia...

3) The Western Establishment is at war with Israel for oppressing those poor Arabs...

The Western Establishment has found reasons for being at war with the world's three biggest religions.

Imagine the context wasn't world events, but the business world. Imagine first ABC found itself under financial attack. Then CBS found itself under financial attack. Then NBC found itself under financial attack. Would anyone assume it was "random events" hitting three similar targets at once? Wouldn't everyone be looking for some power bloc which would stand to benefit from the battle?

Hasn't the destruction of religion been an agenda item for one or two (in)famous global movements?!

[House Wants Clergy Housing Bill (The Hot War Against Religion) ]

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It's hardly just the UN. It's the entire Western Establishment...

-- KotS

[madfly]

I found this bit about the author, Laurie Goodstein.

The bad news
about diversity

Push for fairness had led to bias against truth
By Jeff Bercovici
(Snip)
I've documented a lot of bad reporting, a lot of journalistic malpractice in "Coloring the News," but I haven't seen anything quite as egregious as the denial and avoidance of the gay subtext to the Catholic church scandal. 
   What I mean by that is news organizations have reported the scandal as a problem of pedophilia in a way that endorses calls for abandoning celibacy and for abandoning the bar on ordaining women.
     But most news organizations have, it seems, deliberately refused to acknowledge the facts showing that a vast disproportion of the priests accused of abuse have been gay, and that their victims have with rare exceptions been pubescent and teenage boys, not prepubescent children, and that the rise of the lavender clergy over the last 20 years, to the point where between 20 and 50 percent of all Catholic priests now are estimated to be gay -- that this rise really has been disastrous for the church. 
     You just don't get news organizations that are willing to report it.
   New York Times reporters like Laurie Goodstein -- she's taking her cues from GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. 
   You read her stories and then you go hunt the GLAAD web site -- their media advisories are almost going whole cloth into Laurie Goodstein's reporting. It is a true scandal.
   There is a scandal in the church, and I very much acknowledge that. I'm somebody who is Catholic. I’ve seen three priests I've known in my life -- a former pastor and two high school teachers -- I've seen their misconduct splashed across the pages of the New York tabloids.
     So I know what I'm talking about here. Personally, I'm very saddened by the scandal, and I think that the level of coverage is very appropriate. I’m saddened by the cover-up in the church hierarchy. 
   At the same time, as a news professional, as a journalist, I'm just as concerned with the cover-up that's going on in the media. 
   These reporters and editors don't want to go near the story. It’s the elephant in the living room. It's a very vital dimension of the story. It's not the sole element of the story, but it's one of several, and yet it isn’t being reported in the way it should be.

[madfly]

It's hardly just the UN. It's the entire Western Establishment...

Or perhaps evidence of the presence and influence of the UN and their NGO's on the Western Establishment.

[Cicero]

This reporter is a moron.

[johniegrad]

she should of pointed out that because Catholics are the only denomation that doesn't allow it's priests to have love/marriage/sex however youw ant to put it is the real problem here

Don't tell me. You a regular NYT subscriber, aren't you? The issues of chastity and celibacy have been kicked around here for months now and you don't get any of it.

I'd like to be able to comment on your other two paragraphs but I can't make heads or tails out of what you are trying to say.

[Almondjoy]

That's interesting because I don't understand what you mean by those issues being kicked around here for months.. and this relates to anything I said how?

[cicero's_son]

And Militant Atheism smiles on through the carnage and confusion, goading the children of Abraham to destroy themselves.