Quote:Irish Government: Church-Run Homes for Unwed Mothers Led to 9,000 Dead Kids
A new report from the Irish government finds that about 9,000 children died in Catholic Church-run homes meant for unwed mothers between 1922-1998. The government helped fund these faith-based torture chambers where some victims were treated like lab subjects, testing out vaccines without any consent from their parents.
Researcher Catherine Corless, who had been looking into a home in the same region once run by the Bon Secours nuns, realized that many of the children who had died in their care (up to 800 of them over several decades) had no records of public burials. She wondered if all those children had been “buried” inside the septic tank.
Women who gave birth outside marriage were subject to particularly harsh treatment. It was supported by, contributed to, and condoned by, the institutions of the State and the Churches.
The Catholic Church ended up killing babies and children in their attempt to paper over their very existence. Much of this cruelty occurred before 1953, when adoption became the preferred approach. And Ireland has, in a sense, revolted against the Catholic Church’s rules more recently, voting in 2018 to legalize abortion.
These children, so poorly cared for by a group of Catholic nuns over several decades, were tossed aside so carelessly both in life and after it.
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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"