I’d disagree when it comes to certain Catholic priests, but you probably knew that already.
No amount of confession makes up for interfering with little boys.
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[Misc] Christians seem to be really good people
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No amount of confession makes up for interfering with little boys.
Was she one of those happy clappy Christians?
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This priest, after the CPS decided not to prosecute him because of ill health, was allowed to die in communal religious accommodation connected to a school. Not particularly historical, he died in 2000, and I know at least one of his survivors who is still suffering. The police described him as a "prolific paedophile". Growing up a Catholic and at Salesian and other schools I've got too many stories like this and it's why Mini-Exile will never go anywhere near a church.
Salesians apologise for child sexual abuse
A Salesian priest who posed as a psychologist to gain access to young women told one of his victims he was “teaching her how to love”, writes Liz Dodd.
Sounds like she swapped the tambourine for the rusty trombone
BBassic
I changed this.
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You know, I've written a couple of versions of this post. Each of them were a bit too combative in expressing my disdain for religion of any kind. So instead I'll just say: each to their own. It's not for me.
Oh and if people could stop using religion to spread hatred that'd be nice as well.
Oh and if people could stop using religion to spread hatred that'd be nice as well.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Summertime on NSC, you just cannot beat it.
This. I see it's Mustafa's turn to act the joker and the turn of the Japanese sounding fella who likes weird camera angles to pontificate - comically badly and horribly unconvincingly.
When are the f***ing fixtures out?
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Worried Man Blues
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of men and the OP's caught a few!
BadFish
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Thanks for posting, that is heartbreaking.
Similar to what happened in Australia up until the 1970's.
Longtime Australian policy: Kidnapping children from families
Australian past bordered on slavery and genocide By Philip Knightley January 30, 2001 LONDON — In the United States, Native American children, “Red Indians,” had been forcibly taken from their parents and placed in institutions to “civilize” them. Australia tried a different approach. In 1937...
publicintegrity.org
BadFish
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Yeah sorry, incredibly enticing when it was replacing doing work
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Ask any single mother in Ireland during the last 100 years. The Vatican is so wealthy it could solve World hunger and in Central/South America the church is quite happily to let kids sleep in sewers while it keeps its doors locked.
BadFish
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The kids are probably safer in the sewers though.
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I couldn’t and wouldn’t single Christians as a group out ahead of anyone else to be honest.
Along with every other group in society, there will be individuals blessed with grace, empathy and a peaceful mind. Similarly, if you look at American TV evangelism, which is effectively a grift, and the horrific abuse that has been carried out by the Catholic Church and the Church of England, not to mention read your history books, countless atrocities have been carried out in the name of Christianity.
Look at any organized religion, at atheists and agnostics too, and you will find a mix of the good and bad. As was pointed out earlier, it’s a human thing.
Where any organized religion becomes dangerous is where it gets used as an excuse for actions that defy logic. When actions can’t be justified except by saying “It is god’s will” that’s a sure sign that an abuse of power is occurring.
Where (to my mind) atheists and agnostics score over their religious counterparts, is they take responsibility for their actions. There’s no “god’s will” or “the devil made me do it” - they accept accountability for their actions as their own.
I’m more alongside people who take an active interest in improving the world we’re currently in, than those who are content to allow us to wallow in shit in this world, because they’re secure in their belief of reward in a world to come.
Along with every other group in society, there will be individuals blessed with grace, empathy and a peaceful mind. Similarly, if you look at American TV evangelism, which is effectively a grift, and the horrific abuse that has been carried out by the Catholic Church and the Church of England, not to mention read your history books, countless atrocities have been carried out in the name of Christianity.
Look at any organized religion, at atheists and agnostics too, and you will find a mix of the good and bad. As was pointed out earlier, it’s a human thing.
Where any organized religion becomes dangerous is where it gets used as an excuse for actions that defy logic. When actions can’t be justified except by saying “It is god’s will” that’s a sure sign that an abuse of power is occurring.
Where (to my mind) atheists and agnostics score over their religious counterparts, is they take responsibility for their actions. There’s no “god’s will” or “the devil made me do it” - they accept accountability for their actions as their own.
I’m more alongside people who take an active interest in improving the world we’re currently in, than those who are content to allow us to wallow in shit in this world, because they’re secure in their belief of reward in a world to come.
Deportivo Seagull
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I suspect CDF - common dog f*** or more commonly known as common sense.
AstroSloth
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The Bible is Fiction: A Collection Of Evidence
Similarities to Other Stories Unavoidable Contradictions The Logical Explanation Similarities to Other Stories The similarities between the stories and characte
danielmiessler.com
Here's a collection of parts of the bible that are copied from other religions that have been around far longer, contradictions in the Bible and parts that just don't make sense.
If you read the Bible and genuinely thought "oh yeah this happened" then there's probably not much helping you.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Well, indeed, yes
Of course there are, and we atheists and Christians are able to live in harmony very well. I have nothing against Christians, or people of other faith, and they don't tend to have anything against anyone else either.
I think it's better to see Christianity as a faith, something you believe in, rather than something you can really argue is true. If you try and use stories of the bible to convince an atheist that it's true, you run the risk of getting mocked, because all of the facts say that it's not.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Not sure if “caught” is the right term, he’s certainly given us the option to voice disgust against a corrupt, evil, brain washing cult though
Well no, you need to say a few Hail Marys too. Then you're good to go.