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Catholic Church is also the largest organization in the world which openly protects pedophiles.

by voytec 3y ago

number6 3y ago
I bet it is also a hedge fund
- hutzlibu 3y ago
  Well, they have the official "Institute for the Works of Religion" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_the_Works_of_Religion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_the_Works_of_R... A proper bank, with historic ties to the Mafia.
ristlane 3y ago
It was a disaster for the church and for humanity. Ireland used to be the most Catholic nation in the world; not anymore. Their faith was obliterated by the sex abuse scandal.
- Lionga 3y ago
  Germany has many sex abuse scandal of the church and they still try to hide them. Pope Benedict himself helped to hide them. There is probably not a single country where the catholic church is not the best place for child sex abusers. Well maybe Islam, as it is having Mohammed, who raped a nine year old girl, as their "Son of God".
- thr-nrg 3y ago
  Every religion in the West is losing adherents as quickly as 80 year olds are dying. Pederasty has nothing to do with it.
  - jl6 3y ago
    I think it's probably got something to do with it. Plenty of non-Catholic denominations and other faiths have had similar abuse scandals, and in the public consciousness the crimes of Catholic priests get filed under "why religion is bad" as much as "why Catholicism is bad".
    - thr-nrg 3y ago
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  - sokoloff 3y ago
    Well, it's certainly not helping with the recruiting of younger people into that particular religion... Today's 80 year olds in the church probably joined 60-75 years ago.
  - deleted 3y ago
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- hgsgm 3y ago
  Disaster for the victims, but taking down the unelected undemocratic Church is a silver lining.
- lo_zamoyski 3y ago
  That's not really the cause. It is more like grease to ease the egress when someone already looking for the exit for other reasons needs an easy excuse. Ireland's Catholicism was already weakened by various ideological currents and social engineering that swept across the country, many facilitated by powerful, shall we say, American corporate interest and investment. Living the Catholic faith is demanding and utterly unappealing to those who've been made slaves to their deranged passions. Not so coincidentally, those who are slaves to their passions are easier to control. I leave the inference to be made here as an exercise for the reader. The British colonization of Ireland was brutal, but it was corporeal. The spiritual colonization today, materially prosperous and comfortable, destroys the soul.
shiftpgdn 3y ago
Synagogues are giving the Catholics a run for their money. Ask yourself why the shorim are allowed to completely cover up all the abuse inside the orthodox community?
- gataca 3y ago
  What? Comparing the size and scale of the Catholic church, and the centralized system of protecting known sex abusers, to a small fraction of a tiny religious group is absurd.
  - defrost 3y ago
    The jewish | christian schism is out of hand when the disagreement is over which has the more significant subgroup of sex pests and enablers.
  - shiftpgdn 3y ago
    There are over 5.9 million Orthodox in the USA alone. That's not some fringe religious group.
    - lo_zamoyski 3y ago
      Yes, but it also is besides the point. People gladly attack the Catholic Church and they do so with a kind of seething hatred or blind ignorance that allows them to assign to the Church a unique status in this regard. But the fact is that child abuse[0] is or was present in all institutions that deal with children, both religious and secular. In fact, the rate of abusive priests in the Church (estimated to be about 4%) is average or below the rates elsewhere, especially public schools where it is something like 10% among staff, last I checked. And I wonder if the parent above knows how protective these Jewish communities are of their own. They do not like to involve the state in their affairs. So none of this is unique or even extraordinarily present in the Catholic Church. [0] And by "child abuse", certainly in the Church, it is best described as a homosexual ephebophilia scandal. That is, 80% of abuse victims were post-pubescent teenage males.
    - gataca 3y ago

Catholic Church is also the largest organization in the world which openly protects pedophiles.

by voytec 3y ago

Catholic Church is also the largest organization in the world which openly protects pedophiles.

number6 3y ago

I bet it is also a hedge fund

hutzlibu 3y ago
Well, they have the official "Institute for the Works of Religion" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_the_Works_of_Religion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_the_Works_of_R... A proper bank, with historic ties to the Mafia.

ristlane 3y ago

It was a disaster for the church and for humanity. Ireland used to be the most Catholic nation in the world; not anymore. Their faith was obliterated by the sex abuse scandal.

Lionga 3y ago
Germany has many sex abuse scandal of the church and they still try to hide them. Pope Benedict himself helped to hide them. There is probably not a single country where the catholic church is not the best place for child sex abusers. Well maybe Islam, as it is having Mohammed, who raped a nine year old girl, as their "Son of God".
thr-nrg 3y ago
Every religion in the West is losing adherents as quickly as 80 year olds are dying. Pederasty has nothing to do with it.
- jl6 3y ago
  I think it's probably got something to do with it. Plenty of non-Catholic denominations and other faiths have had similar abuse scandals, and in the public consciousness the crimes of Catholic priests get filed under "why religion is bad" as much as "why Catholicism is bad".
  - thr-nrg 3y ago
    [flagged]
- sokoloff 3y ago
  Well, it's certainly not helping with the recruiting of younger people into that particular religion... Today's 80 year olds in the church probably joined 60-75 years ago.
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
hgsgm 3y ago
Disaster for the victims, but taking down the unelected undemocratic Church is a silver lining.
lo_zamoyski 3y ago
That's not really the cause. It is more like grease to ease the egress when someone already looking for the exit for other reasons needs an easy excuse. Ireland's Catholicism was already weakened by various ideological currents and social engineering that swept across the country, many facilitated by powerful, shall we say, American corporate interest and investment. Living the Catholic faith is demanding and utterly unappealing to those who've been made slaves to their deranged passions. Not so coincidentally, those who are slaves to their passions are easier to control. I leave the inference to be made here as an exercise for the reader. The British colonization of Ireland was brutal, but it was corporeal. The spiritual colonization today, materially prosperous and comfortable, destroys the soul.

shiftpgdn 3y ago

Synagogues are giving the Catholics a run for their money. Ask yourself why the shorim are allowed to completely cover up all the abuse inside the orthodox community?

gataca 3y ago
What? Comparing the size and scale of the Catholic church, and the centralized system of protecting known sex abusers, to a small fraction of a tiny religious group is absurd.
- defrost 3y ago
  The jewish | christian schism is out of hand when the disagreement is over which has the more significant subgroup of sex pests and enablers.
- shiftpgdn 3y ago
  There are over 5.9 million Orthodox in the USA alone. That's not some fringe religious group.
  - lo_zamoyski 3y ago
    Yes, but it also is besides the point. People gladly attack the Catholic Church and they do so with a kind of seething hatred or blind ignorance that allows them to assign to the Church a unique status in this regard. But the fact is that child abuse[0] is or was present in all institutions that deal with children, both religious and secular. In fact, the rate of abusive priests in the Church (estimated to be about 4%) is average or below the rates elsewhere, especially public schools where it is something like 10% among staff, last I checked. And I wonder if the parent above knows how protective these Jewish communities are of their own. They do not like to involve the state in their affairs. So none of this is unique or even extraordinarily present in the Catholic Church. [0] And by "child abuse", certainly in the Church, it is best described as a homosexual ephebophilia scandal. That is, 80% of abuse victims were post-pubescent teenage males.
  - gataca 3y ago