(August 24, 2018 at 9:50 pm)Losty Wrote: Obviously individual Catholics are not to blame,
Individual Catholics teach these tormented kids that their tormentors are divine. They are the representatives of god on earth. They are not to be questioned and certainly not to be disobeyed. In fact, to disobey your tormentor is to disobey god. Under Catholic Canon law, adherents are required to give a "religious submission of the intellect and will" to their church.
As one victim put it, the priests “are much above anybody else in your family or they are God in the flesh.”
So I say individual Catholics are to blame.
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"
