Media Interviews and Appearances
Author Sam Harris joins plot to have Pope arrested
By MARC HOME May 16, 2010.
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Sam Harris, the atheist writer, has launched an appeal to fund a legal bid to have the Pope arrested when he visits Britain.
The American neuroscientist is seeking financial backing for the campaign that is being led by British writers Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. The pair have asked human-rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church.
Harris, the author of The End of Faith, launched his appeal online, stating: “I would like to announce that Project Reason, the foundation that my wife and I started to spread scientific thinking and secular values, has joined Hitchens and Dawkins in an effort to end the ‘diplomatic immunity’ which the Vatican claims protects the Pope from any responsibility.








Nice to see Sam and Project Reason jumping on board. If widespread and systematic cover-up of child abuse isn’t an indictable criminal offense, I shutter to imagine what the minimum villainy requirement could possibly be.
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