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To: Cronos

In the first place I don't have a group, Jesus does. In the second place it is the Catholic church who has left his teachings. How much money have you had to pay out to protect your child molesting priest yet you maintain them on your payroll. Paul condemns homosexually but the Catholic church protects it. And you call yourself the mainstream of Christianity?


558 posted on 02/16/2006 5:09:15 AM PST by tenn2005 (Birth is merly an event; it is the path walked that becomes one's life.)
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To: tenn2005
###"In the second place it is the Catholic church who has left his teachings. How much money have you had to pay out to protect your child molesting priest yet you maintain them on your payroll. Paul condemns homosexually but the Catholic church protects it. And you call yourself the mainstream of Christianity?"###

What you are saying is that sin prevails? It also prevails in Protestant denominations and as well as secular organizations.

"According to a report in Denver's Rocky Mountain News, the list revealed teachers “who prey on grade-schoolers, plying them with love notes…Teachers who download pornography on their desktop computers while students sit before them…Teachers who encourage students to meet them surreptitiously after school, on out-of-town trips, and who give them marijuana or alcohol in exchange for sex.”

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5988


Read the following: "Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, Inc. Newsletter, July, 1996. Copyright © 1996

It is commonly believed that clergy sexual abuse is an exclusively Catholic problem that does not happen in other churches. In a 1983 doctoral thesis by Richard Blackmon, 12% of the 300 Protestant clergy surveyed admitted to sexual intercourse with a parishioner and 38% admitted to other sexualized contact with a parishioner.1 In separate denominational surveys, 48% of United Church of Christ female ministers and 77% of United Methodist female ministers reported having been sexually harassed in church.2 Although the actual extent of the problem is unknown, the significance of clergy sexual abuse is acknowledged by the denominational leaders of all Christian churches.3"

There is also a report by Hofstra University showing the high incidents in public school child molestation. Space limits me posting it.
You are wrong in signaling out the Catholic Church and failing to signal out other Churches and secular groups.
We should neither judge nor condemn as we might be judged and condemned. Best thing for them is prayer
585 posted on 02/16/2006 7:36:33 AM PST by franky (Pray for the souls of the faithful departed.)
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