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PZ Myers, Phil Plait, and the Pope

Two blog(er)s that I greatly admire, Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy and PZ Myers of Pharyngula disagree over just what atheists/skeptics/non-believers/rationalists/free-thinkers (I will be using these somewhat interchangeably throughout the remainder of this piece) ought to be advocating with regards to the revelation (pun intended) that Pope Benedict XVI, while still the (presumably fallible...you can be sure that Bill Donohue will point that out before long) Cardinal Ratzinger, knew of, and was complicit in, the shuffling around of Catholic priests against whom substantive accusations of child sexual abuse had been leveled, in what plainly was, and is, an ongoing attempt to shield those priests (and those above them in the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church) from investigations by temporal and civil authorities. There is even documentary evidence that indicates that the Church has been aware of the existence of pedophilic priests for decades. More documentary evidence has surfac