RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 21, 2015 at 11:11 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2015 at 11:28 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 20, 2015 at 11:42 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(August 20, 2015 at 11:37 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: <cut for clarity>
Parkers-
I'm going to ask you one time, straight up: Do you acknowledge that the rate of pedophilia within the Catholic priesthood is lower than in the general population?
Yes or no?
According to you, it is. I haven't looked at numbers from an unbiased source like the FBI. And in speaking with you, directly, I don't give a shit about other numbers. We are here discussing your religious faith. Those other numbers are absolutely irrelevant to the question, "Why does Randy follow an alleged moral authority that behaves in such a profoundly immoral manner?"
Once you understand that, you'll quit this childish reasoning of yours and really start to get somewhere.
Also, it's a shame you completely ignored the points I raised. Par for the course with you, I suppose. <sigh> Go back and read my post -- it's clear you didn't even bother -- go read it and let's see your answer to my questions, instead of this continual dodging; you only make yourself look bad behaving this way.
(August 21, 2015 at 12:35 am)Randy Carson Wrote: 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.
Then why are you still here? It's not like you've raised the level of discourse.
And if you want to see a fool, go look in the mirror. The guy there gives money to a church which shelters molesters, and still thinks of himself as having the moral high ground here. We're not besmirching your precious church. The church's hierarchy did that when they actively chose to shelter perverts and criminals, and indeed abetted them in further depredations by not telling the new dioceses what happened in the old ones -- the church dragged its own moral superiority right through the mud, and you're so purblind as to complain about atheists on a website?! You still give your money to an organization which actively fights attempts at seeking justice in these cases.
Pathetic. Simply pathetic.
(August 21, 2015 at 1:50 am)Randy Carson Wrote: YOU however, want to say that the entire institution is somehow guilty of pedophilia. That's 1.2 billion people.
No one is saying that. Quit being dishonest.
