RE: The Pope - After a Week In 'Murrica
September 25, 2015 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2015 at 11:09 am by SteelCurtain.)
C_L, I know, and I think everyone here (even Min) knows that you do not approve of the molestation of children.
I think Thump's post is worth heavy consideration, though.
If enough Catholics (believing full-heartedly in the "Truth" of the Church) stopped tithing and donating to their diocese until EVERY LAST molester was put behind bars, EVERY LAST priest/bishop/cardinal/pope who shielded a perpetrator was taken to justice, and EVERY LAST victim was fully compensated, then it could be said that you are not supporting an organization that shields pedophiles from justice and hides funds to avoid paying to victims.
Two questions:
1) Do you think that those things should happen? That every molester should be put in jail, that every person in the Catholic hierarchy who shuffled or obfuscated to protect a molester should be tried, and that every last victim should be compensated?
2) Do you think that the Church has the power to facilitate any of that, and do you think parishioners should take a stand until that has happened? Why not?
What irks me is that these diocese spend millions of dollars on making sure the Church looks like a freaking throne room and their priests are outfitted with enough gold to make Mr. T jealous (See St. Patricks Cathedral in Manhattan---just finished a major "re-model" --- Jesus would love that... he always said "Make my house as a kingdom, make it look like we be ballin'"--paraphrase) and then claim they have no liquid assets to pay out victims. That, to me, is a fucking travesty.
I think Thump's post is worth heavy consideration, though.
If enough Catholics (believing full-heartedly in the "Truth" of the Church) stopped tithing and donating to their diocese until EVERY LAST molester was put behind bars, EVERY LAST priest/bishop/cardinal/pope who shielded a perpetrator was taken to justice, and EVERY LAST victim was fully compensated, then it could be said that you are not supporting an organization that shields pedophiles from justice and hides funds to avoid paying to victims.
Two questions:
1) Do you think that those things should happen? That every molester should be put in jail, that every person in the Catholic hierarchy who shuffled or obfuscated to protect a molester should be tried, and that every last victim should be compensated?
2) Do you think that the Church has the power to facilitate any of that, and do you think parishioners should take a stand until that has happened? Why not?
What irks me is that these diocese spend millions of dollars on making sure the Church looks like a freaking throne room and their priests are outfitted with enough gold to make Mr. T jealous (See St. Patricks Cathedral in Manhattan---just finished a major "re-model" --- Jesus would love that... he always said "Make my house as a kingdom, make it look like we be ballin'"--paraphrase) and then claim they have no liquid assets to pay out victims. That, to me, is a fucking travesty.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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