Prof says Pope should be executed for ‘premeditated mass murder’

A professor in Austria accused the Catholic Pope of “premeditated mass murder” in a blog post this year, writing he deserves to be executed for his adherence to the Church’s stance on contraception.

An Austrian professor argued the Pope should be sentenced to death for his opposition to the use of contraception.

Richard Parncutt, who is a professor of systematic musicology at the University of Graz, also suggested in the October post that most of Vatican’s high level advisors ought also to face the death penalty.

“[T]he Pope and perhaps some of his closest advisers should be sentenced to death,” he wrote.

“I am talking about the current Pope, because his continuing refusal to make a significant change to the church’s position on contraception will certainly result in millions of further unnecessary deaths from AIDS in the future.”

Catholic doctrine holds that the use of contraception is a mortal sin and discourages the use of condoms, which many believe could significantly prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa.

Parncutt maintains in his column that otherwise he has “always been opposed to the death penalty,” classifying the punishment as “barbaric” and “racist.”

“Even mass murderers should not be executed,” he wrote before making a special exception for the Pope because of the mass casualties he says have been caused by the doctrine.

In the same opinion piece, Parncutt also accuses the Catholic Church’s  “racist” because many of those who affected by AID are on the African continent.

“Those dying from AIDS are predominantly black,” he wrote.

Campus Reform could not reach Parncutt or a spokesperson for the University of Graz for comment in time for.

In the column, Parncutt extended his support for the death penalty to influential skeptics of man-made global warming.

“They are already causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of people,” Parncutt alleges. “We could be speaking of billions, but I am making a conservative estimate.”

In July, he created an online petition to apply a “global wealth tax” to the globe’s wealthiest one-percent.

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