RE: Someone debate me
August 30, 2012 at 5:22 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2012 at 5:22 pm by Cyberman.)
Before we all get spiralling off down the Yellow Brick Road, let's just review:
Let's keep it in focus that we're not discussing whether there are coverups of abuse scandals, which I would hope we can all agree there are; the issue at hand is that such abuse takes place at all.
To put it another way:
(August 30, 2012 at 3:29 am)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: ... do you just like getting diddled?
(August 30, 2012 at 6:27 am)greneknight Wrote: the church doesn't do that to anyone.
(August 30, 2012 at 5:02 pm)I Wrote: [Quotes documented example of the church doing just that and by way of admission settling out of court]
(August 30, 2012 at 5:08 pm)greneknight Wrote: 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.
Let's keep it in focus that we're not discussing whether there are coverups of abuse scandals, which I would hope we can all agree there are; the issue at hand is that such abuse takes place at all.
To put it another way:
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'