(June 17, 2015 at 12:41 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 16, 2015 at 11:39 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: And yet, the church hierarchy has and does protect the perpetrators at the expense of the victims.
How's that dissonance?
There have been people in the Church who have covered it up, yes. Those people did wrong and were definitely not acting on Church teaching.
"People"? Really? These aren't just "people", they're the leaders. These are the people leading your church.
A general criticism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_C..._responses
All of this couldn't continue to happen without leadership intervening:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_C...ir_effects
Do you understand that the only problem isn't the child abuse within the church (although, it's pretty awful, being that the Church claims to be the ultimate moral authority), but the cover-ups made by your church leaders, and the prevalence of that fact? That's not just pedophiles and sex abusers doing some awful stuff to people, but the people who enabled them... and by giving to your church, you are enabling it too. You can protest as much as you want, but I think a good look at what you're backing would benefit you in a lot of ways.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
