(May 12, 2017 at 11:10 am)Fireball Wrote: Maybe make them say the lord's prayer backwards? They belong in jail like any other offender. The RCC still has too much sway over secular criminal affairs.
You know I got a feeling that people go into clergy to have sex with kids and then pray for punishment.
Also I remember reading in one of the books by an ex Catholic priest and early XX. century critic of Church, Joseph McCabe, how an old Catholic priest, who had high position in Vatican, told him that there is a lot of corruption in Vatican and Rome and that that same clergy considers that corruption is actually proof of the divinity of Catholic Church! How? It was quite simple: "If the Catholic Church were not divine, the sins of its clergy would have destroyed it ages ago." So his ecclesiastical professor had taught him, and he sincerely believed. Possibly many a simple Christian believes that his Church could not have survived all its blunders unless the Holy Spirit had been there.
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY same:
A soon-to-be-released book about Cardinal Pell contains detailed claims that he sexually abused two choirboys at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne in the late 1990s.
The alleged abuse is said to have occurred after the introduction of the Melbourne Response, the compensation scheme for clerical sexual abuse victims established in 1996 by Cardinal Pell, when he was Archbishop of Melbourne.
The book, Cardinal: The Rise And Fall of George Pell, also contains new information about the child abuse cover-up within the church, including allegations that he knew about paedophile priests earlier than he claimed.
The boys, who were both students at St Kevin's College in Toorak and sang in the choir at St Patrick's Cathedral in East Melbourne, were allegedly abused in a back room of the church.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/cardin...w3pe8.html
Yeah, why are atheist always picking on Cardinals and popes?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
