Catholiphobe Alarm: Sarah Silverman Taunts the Pope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bObItmxAGc
(this video may be offensive)

Silverman put out this video on youtube prior to an appearance on HBO's Real World with Bill Maher and ABC's The View, when she was able to present her opinions as actual intellect. In the video, she asserts that the Pope sell Vatican City to feed the world's poor people.




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1: One could make that assertion about any institution. Why not sell Washington DC? Why not sell Bill Gate's assets? Why not sell the country of Guatemala? All of these scenarios present the same fallacies. Foremost, the solution would be short term at best. Poor people would be fed for a small period of time, money would run out eventually, and people would again be hungry. Secondly, there is not a market for these things. Who is going to buy St. Peter's Basilica?

2: The very idiotic part of her rant is that of all the institutions she could have chose in the world, she chose the very one that feeds the most hungry, by far, The Catholic Church. In the time it would take to sell off parts of the Vatican (worth $900 million in land holdings), and arrange to feed the poor, following to the time that such monies would run out, the Catholic Church will have fed the amount of people she aims to feed - because of the inefficiencies in such a plan - and the church would still be around to do it again.

3: In trying to synthesize the church's hypocrisy, she illuminates her own. What has she sold for the poor? How many profits from movies and television has she given to the hungry?

4: She infers that the Pope does not live humbly because he lives in his own city, and the Vatican is apparently rich. In actuality, the church has run deficits in the last two years of about 1 million dollars.

5: The Church was not involved in the holocaust.... except for the fact that it helped to hide Jews from death while European governments looked the other way.