RE: Benevolent Creator God?
August 21, 2021 at 2:42 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2021 at 2:45 pm by Mashmont.)
(August 21, 2021 at 2:34 pm)Spongebob Wrote:(August 21, 2021 at 1:21 pm)Mashmont Wrote: Sure we've seen this before. 30- or 40-year old allegations. Most of the priests now dead. RCC in America started banning gays from seminaries in 2005, and that basically eliminated the molestations. Too bad we can't say the same for the government public schools. The left seems uninterested in reporting about their GROWING pedo problem.
You are just trying to smoke screen. If god was magic, as you people believe, or even if belief in god truly changed people, as you people say it does, then why would there be ANY pedophiles in any church anywhere? When confronted with evil Christians, you Christians just claim "ah, well, humans be humans". But when you get into a debate about what is special about god and Christianity, you say things like "Christianity changes people". Well, clearly those two things cannot both be true. Either humans are truly changed by Christianity or they are not. They clearly are not and thus we see the proportionate amount of pedophiles in churches that we see in the rest of society and homosexuality has no impact on it whatsoever.
I grew up Baptist. Guess what, I know men my own age who I grew up with in the same church who've served time for child molestation. The difference is the Baptist church did not try to protect them, nor did any government official. Church pedophiles are not an old story; it still happens today.
Two things. People mess up. Even if they have been practicing Christians and have been changed, it doesn't mean they can't fall,
And then there is the possibility that the very few priests were deceptive from the start and never embraced Christian teaching.
But I'd say most of the time, if someone really embraced Christian teaching, they won't fall too far too often.
As far as sex abuse in the RCC today, it has fallen almost to non-existence in the past ten years in the US. The 2005 policy of banning gays from seminaries has really seemed to solve the problem.
(August 21, 2021 at 2:40 pm)Helios Wrote:Quote:How is it bigotry pointing to a policy of US seminaries banning gay candidates which has apparently worked? Could you explain?Citation needed
Maybe take it up with the third-world Belgian law-enforcement.
Here you go, mate.
https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut...story.html