Gerald Ridsdale, notorious Australian Catholic priest, charged with raping, abusing another 6 boys, bringing his total victim count to 78.
This prolific criminality could not have happened without church bosses allowing it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-05/g.../103675154
This prolific criminality could not have happened without church bosses allowing it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-05/g.../103675154
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"
