We should have known it the moment we looked into his creepy, deep-set eyes. Pope Benedict XVI (or, as we like to call him, Joey Rats) is a dangerous man, and that's never been clearer than now, two days after he stood in front of a crowd of the faithful in Africa, a continent scourged by AIDS, and said condoms won't help the fight against HIV. That was a terrible thing you did, Rats! And it wasn't the first time.

On gays

It seems the only thing the Pope hates more than condoms is gays. Not only does ol' Rats believe that gays and lesbians are immoral, he also believes you should be allowed to discriminate against them because of their immorality. In 1992, after writing in an essay that homosexuality is an "objective disorder," the Pope added that sexual orientation is different from race or ethnicity, thereby making it "not unjust discrimination to take sexual orientation into account." What holy love!

Just last year, the Pope told his followers that any derivation from the standard man-woman gender roles was "a violation of the natural order."

On other religions

In June 2007, the German-born Rats approved an official Catholic statement reiterating an old point proclaiming that Christian denominations besides Catholic are not "true churches."

"Christ ‘established here on earth’ only one church,” the document said. The other communities “cannot be called ‘churches’ in the proper sense…"

But it don't stop there! You didn't think he was gonna give Islam a pass, did you? In a speech in 2006, the Pope quoted Manuel II Paleologos of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire, saying to his audience: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." Muslims, as you might imagine, were a bit peeved.

On abortion

We suppose this one was to be sort of expected, but that doesn't mean it's not insane. Dig on the many, many, many things wrong with this direct Rats quote:

The various forms of the dissolution of matrimony today, like free unions, trial marriages and going up to pseudo-matrimonies by people of the same sex, are rather expressions of an anarchic freedom that wrongly passes for true freedom of man…from here it becomes all the more clear how contrary it is to human love, to the profound vocation of man and woman, to systematically close their union to the gift of life, and even worse to suppress or tamper with the life that is born.

Our point: Stop listening to this guy!!!!!!!!