RE: Damned Christians
March 13, 2020 at 10:16 am
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2020 at 10:32 am by Mister Agenda.)
(March 6, 2020 at 9:14 am)Agnostico Wrote:(March 5, 2020 at 8:15 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: If it was just one we'd have buried him deep under a prison by now.
Of course its not the only one but is painting a whole group with such a broad brush reasonable?
I could understand being suspicious of priests. Even being dirty with the churches for not doing something about this sooner
I am. I don't know why they have celibate priest. They could fix the problem if they let them have wives
Pedophilia makes my blood boil more than any other crime so can understand the frustration
But are all Christians pedophiles now? Like c'mon, the hate is uncalled for and irrational
I dunno... I see good and bad people from all walks of life anyway
Of course not all Christians are pedophiles, far from it, and not implied by pointing out yet another member of the clergy being caught with their shorts down around a minor. There IS an obvious pattern of Christians (and I'm sure it's not just Christians) giving their clergy way too much benefit of the doubt when it comes to their children. It's a danger whenever you have someone in a position of trust with access to children; but in the case of a teacher or scout leader the matter is normally immediately brought to the attention of the authorities and the offender never gets such a position again. Protestant clergy are not immune, a known sex offender was hired to be a pastor recently (I'm sure not allowed around children). Come on, forgiveness doesn't mean you should get to still be a minister does it?
(March 6, 2020 at 4:40 pm)Agnostico Wrote:(March 6, 2020 at 1:33 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I think that not going to those churches and not throwing money into those baskets is the christian thing to do, actually. Not that this matters much to your grievance machine. Poor poor oppressed christian majority, always getting called assholes for being assholes. What's a little institutional abuse between the faithful?
Are you wondering how many loony tunes priests and pastors are touching kids..or how many administrators are hiding it, or how many parishioners are funding it, or how many people like you are making the thinnest excuses for it...... or are you wondering about the obviously worse scourge of someone commenting on what they and you are doing?
Good luck getting a number from the sex crime rings on the former. They keep that shit close to the vest on account of criminal and civil exposure. In fact, the southern baptist conventions response to their own internal sexual abuse investigation lead to the crafting of legislation...allegedly to solve the problem...that immunized churches from civil liability. Went into law last year.
This is that moral realism you were preaching about hey... Hating everyone on the actions of a few. What spawns such hate anyway? Is it jealousy? What is it?
Funny thing is your hypocrisy. Who were the biggest murderers in the 20th century? All Atheists. Hitler, Stalin, Mao. U have their same hate as well and morals.
Christian churches have nothing on them if u want to keep score. It's ruled for over 2000 years creating the western society we enjoy today.
What has atheism ever done? Fuck all, just kill and destroy. No atheist society has ever prospered, ever. They've all just failed due to radicalism and a lack of moral structure
You don't have to hate anyone to think they maybe oughta try a different church, or have a schism or something. In the USA the Anglicans are right there for Catholics sick of their church. You could have an American Catholic Church with zero tolerance of pedophilia. Pointing out how you could do better isn't hate. As for the Protestants, don't you think they should turn their pedophile ministers over to the cops and never let them preach again?
It would be nice if Christians acknowledged the great debt western civilization owes Greek and Roman civilization before they try to hog the credit for everything good about modernity.
Hateful, nasty Christian! Do a little research. The healthiest, happiest, and most prosperous modern nations are the ones with the highest rates of organic (not imposed by the state) atheism. Most of the doctors of Doctors without Borders fame are atheists. Humanism is the predominant moral philosophy of western atheists and there's never been a nation that fell due to valuing the freedom, health, protections, and rights of its citizenry too much. I have less in common with Stalin because I'm an atheist than you do with Osama bin Laden because you're a Christian. In the USA, atheists are represented in prison at about a tenth of their population in the general population, while Christians and Muslims are proportional. If Christians had a monopoly on prosperity we'd notice, but instead countries with the highest rates of Christianity are inversely proportional to their poverty (the same is true of Islam).
Get outta here with your petulant bullshit, man. Address the sty in your own eye before you get your panties in a bunch what the commies used to do back in the day. We were never part of them (apologies to any actual communists on the board; but hopefully your not an atheist just because Mao or Stalin said so).
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.