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RE: Catholic Priest Beating Kids - video
January 31, 2016 at 1:20 pm
This mass is in Portuguese.
I don't know if it's Brazil or Portugal, but at least in Brazil (and Latin America in general), the culture there is a lot more playful, informal, and "touchy feely" than here. May look weird to an American, but to me it looks like very typical behavior of my native culture.
So yeah, sorry guys. As much as some of you wish he were beating kids or molesting or whatever, he isn't.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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RE: Catholic Priest Beating Kids - video
January 31, 2016 at 1:23 pm
(January 31, 2016 at 12:52 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: Yeah this is just silly stuff. I wonder what they think they're doing. My guess is it has something to do with driving out evil demons. Maybe Cathy would enlighten us if she knows.
No, this is not any sort of traditional ritual or anything like that. Sometimes in mass, especially in South America, at the end of the mass they do something fun to get the kids more involved so it's not so boring for them. I'd say that's what this is.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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RE: Catholic Priest Beating Kids - video
January 31, 2016 at 1:29 pm
Quote:at the end of the mass they do something fun to get the kids more involved so it's not so boring for them.
Uh-oh. I think I see the new line of defense in the pervert priest scandal.
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RE: Catholic Priest Beating Kids - video
January 31, 2016 at 1:34 pm
(January 31, 2016 at 1:20 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: This mass is in Portuguese.
I don't know if it's Brazil or Portugal, but at least in Brazil (and Latin America in general), the culture there is a lot more playful, informal, and "touchy feely" than here. May look weird to an American, but to me it looks like very typical behavior of my native culture.
So yeah, sorry guys. As much as some of you wish he were beating kids or molesting or whatever, he isn't.
It is in Brazil CL, the accent is from there. Besides, Portuguese churches and chapels are usually older looking.
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RE: Catholic Priest Beating Kids - video
January 31, 2016 at 1:47 pm
(January 31, 2016 at 4:49 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: I see the video was removed by youtube user so here's another one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeVonZmG7vM
someone also made a zoomed video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVxzk9SAJqs
No wonder so many people think of atheists as whiners. You're completely misconstruing -- or mis representing -- what is happening in those videos.
With enough real bullshit pulled by religionistas, this is your choice to highlight?
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RE: Catholic Priest Beating Kids - video
January 31, 2016 at 1:50 pm
(January 31, 2016 at 1:34 pm)LastPoet Wrote: (January 31, 2016 at 1:20 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: This mass is in Portuguese.
I don't know if it's Brazil or Portugal, but at least in Brazil (and Latin America in general), the culture there is a lot more playful, informal, and "touchy feely" than here. May look weird to an American, but to me it looks like very typical behavior of my native culture.
So yeah, sorry guys. As much as some of you wish he were beating kids or molesting or whatever, he isn't.
It is in Brazil CL, the accent is from there. Besides, Portuguese churches and chapels are usually older looking.
I assumed it was. I'm still not sure what Portugal Portuguese sounds like though, so didn't want to jump to conclusions.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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RE: Catholic Priest Beating Kids - video
January 31, 2016 at 1:51 pm
(January 31, 2016 at 1:47 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (January 31, 2016 at 4:49 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: I see the video was removed by youtube user so here's another one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeVonZmG7vM
someone also made a zoomed video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVxzk9SAJqs
No wonder so many people think of atheists as whiners. You're completely misconstruing -- or misrepresenting -- what is happening in those videos.
With enough real bullshit pulled by religionistas, this is your choice to highlight?
My thoughts exactly, Thump.
People who do this are just making atheists look bad. Just as Christians who do similar things make Christians look bad.
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RE: Catholic Priest Beating Kids - video
January 31, 2016 at 1:57 pm
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(January 31, 2016 at 12:52 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: Yeah this is just silly stuff. I wonder what they think they're doing. [...]
Uhm, checking for lice?... 
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RE: Catholic Priest Beating Kids - video
January 31, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Oh, would have been fun to see one of the kids smack him. All in the spirit of not being boring and all.
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RE: Catholic Priest Beating Kids - video
January 31, 2016 at 7:41 pm
So if some stranger took your head like that and shake it with slap on the back and pulling your hair you'd be OK with it?! And if he did it to your kid to the point that it looks like it will get a concussion, you'd also be OK? Probably not but if priest does it then it's ok? What's next, video of priest touching kids genitalia and people saying "Ah, they're just playing mom and dad."
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"
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