(August 30, 2012 at 5:02 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(August 30, 2012 at 6:27 am)greneknight Wrote: Nobody likes to be tricked or deceived but the church doesn't do that to anyone.
By "the church" I can only assume you mean the building, otherwise things like this would make you either deceiver or deceived:
Church of England Pays Out After Child Sex and Drug Abuse Scandal - Press Release
Makes a change from Ratzinger's mafia, I suppose, but those little white collars can't be accused of being untarnished.
Huge difference. Many churches have scandal of their own and that's natural. There's scandal everywhere. But only the RC church has a systemic coverup that extends to making the child victim swear an oath of secrecy on pain of excommunication and enjoining all parties to keep secret everything and not to report to the authorities.
