RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 20, 2015 at 6:39 am
(August 19, 2015 at 8:24 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(August 19, 2015 at 8:07 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Gee, I don't know. Perhaps it's because they violated the trust of their followers by abusing their positions of power?
That's a separate issue that doesn't answer the question: Why is distinguishing between the two "stupid" in your opinion?
Quote:Just a guess. I know it sounds strange, but I've always assumed that those who occupy positions of alleged moral leadership would exemplify the morality they wish to inculcate.
Like teachers, coaches, scout masters, Protestant leaders...
Oh, wait, I almost forgot...you only get upset about the smaller per capita percentage of Catholic priests who have violated that trust.
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... and then shuffle the offenders off to other parishes and fresh victims while simultaneously issuing decrees of silence to the whole organisation. Exactly like schools don't.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
