(May 23, 2017 at 2:50 pm)Shell B Wrote:(May 23, 2017 at 12:47 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:
And no disrespect to you MH, but I also find it extremely annoying and irrelevant when people shove the crusades in my face (which happened 1000 years ago) every time a radical Islamist does his thing. Happens every time.
Right? Why the fuck bring that up when you can just point out the rampant, systemic child abuse? I'm half-kidding because I like you, but there really is a serious amount of priests raping kids in your religion.
I like CL too, and yes the Vatican has had a horrible history of hiding child molesters. But there are pedophiles worldwide too.
Religion in antiquity even in prior polytheism treated girls/women more like property, and even today most religions worldwide are still patriarchal with gender expectations. The idea of child brides isn't unique to Islam.
China's female population as well as India's has a harder time reporting rape because of family attitudes of victim shaming.
CL does really need to be introspective too when it comes to religion covering up child abuse.
To CL we don't bring up the history of Catholics or any sect of Christianity to shame anyone, but to say that focusing on solely on Islam is a mistake.
The only thing that separates the west and the east is time and secular law. If you want to rightfully point at others then you also have to look within. There is no "either or" or "us vs them" when it comes to protecting any child of any label.
Parts of Asia have a huge problem with child exploitation too. But sex trafficking in America exists too CL as well as molesters having positions of power in a Church.
Think globally, don't simply point at one and ignore all others. The girls and women and even boys of the world depend on all of us thinking globally.
