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> How do you square that with the modern Catholic church’s systemic support of sexual abuse of minors? I'm the first to criticize Catholicism given a chance, b
by o11c 2y ago
> How do you square that with the modern Catholic church’s systemic support of sexual abuse of minors?
I'm the first to criticize Catholicism given a chance, but ... I'm not sure that's actually a valid claim to make outside of the particular case of ... I think it was New York in the 1990s, which is a statistical outlier (at least in English-speaking countries).
There are a lot of Catholics and therefore it's unavoidable for a lot of pedophiles to be Catholics, but the same is true about teachers. Can you reasonably say "how can you support the school system given that teachers systematically sexually abuse minors"?
Remember, there are 4 kinds of lies:
- lies
- damned lies
- statistics
- things somebody said on the Internet
- alphakappa 2y agoThat’s an odd comparison to make. The ‘school system’ isn’t a monolithic system that is actively refusing to acknowledge or take action against sexual predators. Is there an example of a school district that has been shielding predators on an ongoing basis and refusing to take remedial action?
- JohnBooty 2y agoI'm an atheist and no fan of any church (or, y'know, sexual abuse) but I don't love this line of discussion because it's a real case of whataboutism. The Cathlolic church's actions w.r.t. sexual abuse are certainly worth talking about. Their views on euthanasia (which I disagree with) are too. I don't know that they can be meaningfully discussed simultaneously within the same discussion.