How do christens justify child molestation?

[Rev. Rye]

As someone who went to a Catholic high school, I think the waffling started sometime around Vatican Council II, and I suspect that the rise in the historical context underlying and accessibility thereof helped facilitate it. Let’s face it, the Catholic Church keeps trying to balance tradition with modern knowledge. And waffling around the issue of Hell is a perfect example: on the one hand, there’s centuries of tradition of a fiery Hell, a place where the worm dieth not and there may or may not be nine circles leading to the three mouths of Satan, which are constantly chewing up Judas, Cassius, and Brutus; but on the other, there’s a wealth of scholarship suggesting that there’s no real basis for that vision of Hell in the Bible, and that, when the Bible mentions Hell, it’s either talking about Sheol, which is basically the Jewish version of the Greek underworld, or Gehenna, a real place that may or may not have been Jerusalem’s garbage dump, but was definitely (at some point) treated like a purgatory in Rabbinic literature (one nobody stayed in for longer than 12 months.) Whether or not it was a supernatural fire, let’s face it, even the idea of God throwing you in a dumpster still retains its own power:





Although, given that we don’t know if toys can even actually die in the Toy Story universe, it might still harken back to the traditional idea more. Then again, neither version of Hell had THE CLAAAAAAAAW!