(March 19, 2012 at 9:24 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote:(March 19, 2012 at 9:07 am)StatCrux Wrote: It always strikes me as inconsistant thinking. Does an atheist paedophile give me the right to accuse all atheists or even imply a correlation?
This is irrelevant to the discussion, but the point is that a church allegedly holds a greater moral ideal as descended from an absolute moral authority. To deliberately try and hide these crimes is additionally immoral.
Its the hypocrisy the religion displays which is the cause of the mockery when the incidents of paedophilic priests goes beyond the statistical norm for a given society.
Thats the correlation there.. beyond the statistical norm.
You lose the moral authority, which is why objecting to homosexuals but not paedophilia is presented in this way.
Your church has no moral authority anymore, so how dare you try to dictate what is moral.
Anyway, back to the subject matter.....
You know, one of these days, I'm going to learn how to give concise answers like you instead of my usual ramblings. XD