Posted on 08/14/2018 10:08:56 AM PDT by detective
“maybe it’s been all the same small group of priests who have been very busy for a long time,t o molest so many minors.”
You never read about good and holy priests who devote their lives to others in the media.
You only read about homosexual priests in a very slanted way to make them seem like they are a majority.
Have you ever met a priest in real life?
I would guess not.
I have been a Catholic my entire life. I have never been approached by a predatory priest.
There are a small minority of homosexual priests and I think they should be kicked out immediately.
Your snarky, superior-to-thou attitude is your undoing.
I'm related to a couple.
“I’m related to a couple.”
You must not like them.
300 priests is not a small group
Homosexuality has nearly destroyed the Catholic Church
I’m a godfather to a lovely catholic girl in lumberton Texas
Same thing her priest diddling young boys
I told her momma
That padre is a queer
Her momma was like hush your mouth
He got caught some time later
I hate it
They get protected by other queers with power in the church
It’s Satan is what it is
It’s his wormhole into the an institution that in its glory days preserved western civilization and fought back the crescent savages
Lots of assumptions you make there.
You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
The parishioners protected the priests. Bottom line: parents of victims!
“they’ll start in on all other Christians soon enough.”
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The RCC is a more target rich environment, due it’s a lax position on homosexuals in it’s clergy and it’s followers.
Fundamentalist/Evangelical churches are most often not as tolerant of such behavior and pastors/staff who have been found to engaging in it are most usually booted out post haste. So, less of a target rich of environment. Even then it’s more individual churches/persons as opposed to denominations involved in the wrongdoing.
You have any proof of that assertion?
Detective, I may be confused. Are you defending or minimizing the acts of these men of the church, and their bishop protectors?
A large part of the reason for that is the concerted effort so many groups made to get the Catholic Church to "moderate" back in the late fifties and early sixties leading up to Vatican II. It's easy to see the same sort of push to have all the many denominations of non-Catholics being pressured the same way and just as easy to see that so many of them are quite agreeable to the idea of accepting queers as "just more sinners".
We'll see after another few years of the pressure to "moderate" just how many non-Catholic churches stand up to the negative press and social pressure once the larger ones moderate as they already are. A short while after the smaller churches are abandoned by people prone to going along to get along (as most Americans are) we'll see a plague of scandals involving children and since most pastors are married, all sorts of other carnal accusations.
"Fundamentalist/Evangelical" is a very adaptable category as anyone over about fifty can attest to since tattoos, rock music, premarital sex, and even marijuana use are no longer commonly targeted as sinful behavior or even a "poor testimony" in churches that preached against all of those only a few decades ago. Given the wardrobe selection of women at the churches in my area (Western NC) I'd say modesty isn't much considered these days, either.
Like I said, they'll start in on all others soon enough and they'll have more than enough accusers to make the same sort of headlines we see about Catholic Churches along with a variety of others.
Face facts, if the country as a whole, "Fundamentalist/Evangelicals" included, hadn't turned away from God the country wouldn't be in the shape it's in. If the problem is or was mostly Catholic, then the fact that so many people have left the Catholic Church and become "Fundamentalist/Evangelicals" should have us basking in the glow of God's favor and the land should be flowing with milk and honey rather than in heroin and pornography.
You’re,of course, welcome to your take on my take.My observation is just more that in the evangelical-fundamentalist churches, kicking out the bad apples is a lot quicker process.
I agree with you on V2, though.There was a time before it when the Catholic Church commanded a good amount of moral authority on the world stage. I think that was a good thing, even though I’m not Catholic.
I also agree that there are anti-God and anti-moral forces at work who want to take down anything Judeo-Christian, while also recognizing that - due fallen human nature - you’ll find evil-doers in all organizations- both secular and sacred.
The situation is so distorted by the media.
I am strongly opposed to homosexual priests and the homosexual network that protected them. I believe they are evil.
I wish they had been removed years ago.
However, I am also opposed to the media portraying all or most priests as child abusers.
THERE, FRiends and neighbors, is the absolute truth of the matter.
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