jlf1961
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But, linking the Catholic Church - as a whole - to "agreeing to the [molestations]," you are dead ass wrong. Oh? When the Pope knew.. and still did nothing? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8612457.stm There are many things I would be willing to reconsider changing my mind on... This will never be one of them. The Catholic Church, by ignoring a problem they knew was happening, by moving Priests arounds.. and yes, that article also responds to your belief that they are limited access to children after they are known.... Damn, I really can NOT believe you are even trying to say the Church didnt know. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129902338 Even the Pope admits the Church didnt do enough or act fast enough. So, while you may get pissy and upset with the notion that your beloved Church is seen as a pedophile haven... get used it to. Its facts. Two things:1. I didn't say no one in the Catholic Church knew, but I'm sure there were some in the hierarchy that didn't know, and you're simply throwing them under the bus with the ones that did know. 2. It most certainly isn't my beloved Church. Notice my post where I said I was raised Catholic and left due to the hypocrisies within the Church. How many PP's offer help with abortive services? How many Catholic Churches knowingly housed pedophiles? The percentages will not match. I'm more than willing to jump all over the Catholic Church, but I won't do so with disingenuous arguments. You stated that you didn't agree with the OP, yet, you haven't stated why or commented against the OP's assertion. But, you felt it necessary to "correct" me, even though we both disagree with the OP?!? You are showing your stripes. I never thought of the hypocrisies of the Mother Church as a reason to stop going to mass, but I guess it was the hypocrisy of some of the members of the parish that bugged me. My biggest problem with the church was due to the conflicts between what the church taught and the history of the period when Jesus was alive. I always had questions and never hesitated to ask them. (I was reading history books by the time I was six, my grandmother taught me to read as soon as I learned the ABC's) As a child, I got half answers. That didnt work when I became an adult. Right now my biggest problem is with organized religion, all of em claim to believe in the bible, but it seems that each one has a different one... or more precisely, they all have the same one, but some of the things I have heard various denominations say that the bible says, never jived with what I read. As far as child molestation and religion, it has happened in every denomination since the reformation. Men of the clothe are human, and as such are prone to the temptation to abuse the trust.
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