(May 30, 2013 at 1:13 am)Ryantology Wrote:(May 30, 2013 at 12:29 am)Godschild Wrote: Ok Baalb and cato123, listen up, the pedophiles would not be married period, there's nothing in a marriage they want, and yes these people need to be put to death so society doesn't have to keep their sorry butts up or risk them being freed. I brought the marriage thing up for one reason, now try and read this slowly so you will understand. The more married priest there are in the church the less pedophiles can get in the church to harm the children, thus limiting the harm that can be done and the more watchmen (married priest) there will be to protect them, especially is the married priest are overseeing the children. I'm not trying to be mean here, it's that you did not take time to see the difference married priest would make, it seemed to me all you wanted to do is criticize.
What they are saying is that a priest who is a pedophile will continue to be a pedophile regardless. Marriage will not stop them any more than priesthood does. In fact, it may even give them a new source of cover, as there will be people who will incorrectly assume that a marriage would prevent a priest from diddling altar boys.
The only action which can really help, short of extreme measures such as I half-jokingly offered, is for the church to actually give a fuck about the problem by closely monitoring their priests, starting inquiries when accusations are made, defrocking those who are guilty, and letting the law deal with them.
Christianity is also a life of trust, at least till someone shows us different. Monitoring those priest that are not involved in such evil would go against trust, I do agree the church needs to be more aggressive in rooting out priest that commit such evil. They should bring things to light and see these priest are brought to trial and done away with.
Pedophiles care nothing about being married, at least most do not and like I said more eyes on a problem the sooner it is remedied. Married priest could provide those eyes, one thing I know God will deal with these evil priest and those who covered it up. Evil will be with us till the end of time and we as responsible humans need to fight against it, evil is a problem that effect all and we as a society need to be ware of it and deal with it.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
