What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher

[Ravenshire]

Any and every time you start going on about how there really aren't that many compared to other... blah, blah, blah. You rationalize, minimize and marginalize the crime instead of just coming right out and saying "Yes. You're right. Priests that rape kids are sick bastards." If you actually backed up your claims of moral superiority you wouldn't get half the shit tossed your direction that you do.

Roughly three months ago in the Ask A Catholic thread, I wrote that priests who commit crimes like this should be prosecuted and sent to jail. I have repeated this as often as the subject has come up.

So, again, cite the post in which I DEFENDED pedophile priests.

See below...

What I'm NOT going to listen to is a bunch of ignorant fools blathering on about the Catholic Church and besmirching the good reputation of the 99% of our priests who have not been involved in these crimes.

Guess you'd better leave now, because on an atheist website the condemning of the rapist priests and the members of your fucking church that protects them will continue despite what you will or will not listen to.

Pedophilia is more prevalent in just about every institution - schools, scouting, sports teams, and yes, Protestant churches, etc. - than it is among Catholic priests.

See guys. It ain't so bad in the cathy-lick church. It's way better than other places...

And the implication of such an argument...

But that's an inconvenient truth for your atheists, isn't it?

Not at all. Many here have told you they abhor child rapists wherever they occur but that what makes it extra specially bad when a priest does it is that he's presented to the world as a paragon of morality and then protected by the same church that projects that moral authority.

Really, what you want is to have it both ways. You condemn them from one side of your mouth while rationalizing from the other. It's honestly surprising you've not gotten whiplash from the mental gymnastics.