Meaningfulness v meaninglessness; theism vs atheism;

[Zen Badger]

I recall a story some years back where a preist was caught having an affair with one of his adult female parishoners.

He was defrocked and they were both excommunicated.

I'm sure that if he had been caught molesting choirboys he would have been merely transferred, which is what usually happens.

The implication being that in the eyes of the catholic empire(sorry, church) sex with a child is a lesser crime than sex with a consenting woman.

Conclusion; the catholic hierarchy is a bunch of pedophiles looking out for each other.

This is silly ignorance. Grow up. It is certainly not a valid or sound argument. You atheist claim to be so concerned about reason, and truth, act like it. Thank you.

Oh really?

Then please demonstrate how it is invalid as a denial doesn't count.

The priest WAS defrocked for his actions, whereas many,many priests that are found by the empire to be raping little boys are simply transferred.

Since I have shown that the empire will protect child rapists but not men having affairs with adult women what other conclusion can logically be drawn.

Re the empire and the nazi party

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Ch...zi_Germany

Specifically this bit,

At the end of the war, top Catholic officers organized the so-called ratlines that allowed Nazi war criminals to flee towards South America and other destinations via Francoist Spain. Bishop Alois Hudal and Cardinals Luigi Maglione, Eugene Tisserant and Antonio Caggiano, as well as the Roman Seminar in San Girolamo degli Illirici of Father Krunoslav Draganović were specially active in this task. Thousands of presumed European Catholic immigrants, actually Nazis in disguise, were able to escape from Europe using these networks.

Though if you're prepared to cover up for child rapists, helping murderers isn't such a great leap is it.