(January 14, 2025 at 5:36 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:(January 14, 2025 at 12:17 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: The Catholic Church is about to open a time window to restore the dignity of people who have had abortions and have, thus, "damaged society."
It's interesting that while the Catholic Church has an automatic excommunication for anybody who participates in an abortion in any way they have no such protections against pedophilia.
While I do believe pedophilia (specifically the act of engaging in it with a minor) should be grounds for excommunication, abortion involves the intentional killing of a young human - and while trying to compare "how evil is something?" is a dumb as hell game, I think most people can at least agree that murder is only bellow torture and then murder in regards to "evil."
Compare states that give the death penalty for murder vs the states that give the death penalty for rape if you want to see a secular example of this at work - though to be fair, Protestants are leading the way in states like Kentucky and Florida in getting the death penalty expanded to pedophiles and rapists.
