Describing decades of clergy paedophile abuse as macabre, Spanish premier, Pedro Sánchez, vows to compensate victims with state funds. Wrong move. Taxpayers should not be held liable. Responsibility for reparative justice lies squarely with the Catholic Church
Quote:After the Ombudsman handed over his investigation into pedophile cases in the Catholic Church, acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, stated that it was a « milestone in the history of democracy », because « there is no talk of », and in Spain « there have been for many years many people who have suffered for not being able to denounce, explain, make human dramas visible ». Based on the conclusions of the document delivered to the Congress of Deputies, it has been calculated that there are « hundreds of thousands of people » who have suffered « violence and sexual assault », Sánchez said. A « reality that everyone knew for many years but that nobody spoke of in the terms that we do today », he assured.
We must « solve macabre episodes from the past », maintained and promised « to compensate at least all the suffering they have experienced during all these years of silence, from the Executive and the Legislative ». « The presentation of the report is not the end point of anything: it is the beginning of a debt that Spain must pay off with the victims of those terrible attacks », Sánchez said, both in the Federal Committee of the PSOE this Saturday, and the day before after the European Council meeting in Brussels.
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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"
