RE: Damned Catholics
August 18, 2017 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2017 at 3:37 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(August 18, 2017 at 3:19 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Help me out here:
Is this the right video?? I know the deaf students were viewed as ideal victims due to the difficulty they would have in reporting the abuse, and I think this is a case where the church was suing the parents to shut them up.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (and it looks like it's $2.99 to watch it. Also, it's a TOUGH thing to watch, it is just so sad and horrible)
https://youtu.be/1lrFNWnyrNA
I guess you're asking Catholics on this forum because they surely are well acquainted this documentary, but let me answer it: Yes, "Mea Maxima Culpa" is about deaf children being molested by priests all over the world but I don't remember church was suing the parents. There is also part where we see priest's letters explaining that he had to molest them because if he didn't they would masturbate and we all know how Jesus doesn't like that.
Also what this film thought me is that Christians seem to be obsessed with Pied Piper character. Because afterward in some other documentaries I've heard other Christians referring to him a lot.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"