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To: BlueDragon
“you are attempting to rejecting(sic) Longman’s thesis about what roles churches did play”

I am not saying that no religious people were involved. What I am saying is there were examples of individual priests doing bad things but also of many individual priests who helped to protect the victims.

Longman’s piece dishonestly blames the Catholic Church for actions of individuals when for the most part the Catholic Church was a force for good. Longman appears to be anti-Catholic and I disagree with some of his conclusions.

Longman also does not recognize the role of the Catholic Church in rebuilding Rwanda and helping the survivors.

But my main point is that Pope Francis attacks the Catholic Church and refuses to recognize the good things done by Catholics throughout the world.

56 posted on 03/21/2017 11:45:00 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

No, it does not. What it does it accurately access what role religious organizations did play in the tragedy --compared to sweeping that away with blaming individuals only on the one hand, while frantically hand-waving about what good was done by individuals among the Catholic Church in the aftermath.

Does anyone else do any "good things"? You appear to ignore those.

57 posted on 03/21/2017 12:54:16 PM PDT by BlueDragon (my kinfolk had to fight off wagon burnin' scalp taking Comanches, reckon we could take on a few more)
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