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"I think that my baby was sold"

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"I think that my baby was sold"
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"I think that my baby was sold"
May 18, 2012 at 8:26 am
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57...s-history/

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Quote:One prosecution -- of a now 80-year old nun -- is already underway. Sister Maria is accused taking a child from its mother and is suspected of being part of a ring that moved thousands of babies from what it saw as loose-moraled families to more desirable, more Catholic families.

Now, does anyone here think that the Catholic church has any moral foundation at all?
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RE: "I think that my baby was sold"
May 18, 2012 at 8:32 am
Compared to the kind of morals the church was first formed on, this is nothing. Secular society itself has just moved forward at a faster rate. To be expected when you don't cling to a stationary set of beliefs.
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RE: "I think that my baby was sold"
May 18, 2012 at 8:53 am
Why am I not surprised? Tongue
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RE: "I think that my baby was sold"
May 18, 2012 at 8:53 am
(May 18, 2012 at 8:26 am)orogenicman Wrote: Now, does anyone here think that the Catholic church has any moral foundation at all?

Didn't think they had any to begin with. Undecided
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RE: "I think that my baby was sold"
May 18, 2012 at 11:07 am
They sell babies? They'll be cursed for life. That is only what a...well you know, would do.
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RE: "I think that my baby was sold"
May 18, 2012 at 11:54 am
What a fuckin shock ... the catholic church is at the center of some horrible human atrocity. How completely and totally unbelievable.




Hey thanx jesus for giving your true believers all that awesome inner peace. Next time ... stay home fucker!
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RE: "I think that my baby was sold"
May 18, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Quote:this is nothing.

It's not "nothing," its just slightly less brutal than they were originally.
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RE: "I think that my baby was sold"
May 18, 2012 at 2:30 pm
From an article linked to the one in the OP.

Quote:What was the motivation for the abductions? There are plenty of theories. One is that the children of parents thought to be morally wanting -- maybe single mothers, maybe left-leaning politically -- were prime targets to be moved to more politically correct (right-wing, Catholic) families.

But the dominant theory is more basic than that: money.

You have to be pretty goddamn greedy to steal someone's child and sell it, but the Catholic church has never been short on greed.
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