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To: Gamecock
"If they covered it up! (Which is what Rome did for the rapists, and that has ALWAYS been my point)"

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With just a very small percentage of priests even being credibly accused of abuse, and a smaller number still of bishops being credibly accused of not taking proper action to stop them and just shuffling abusive priests around, it is disingenous to assert that the whole Church is responsible for that.    Those few abusers did their best to cover all their tracks.    To paint the whole Church with that deceptive, dishonest, broad brush, is like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson saying all white people are responsible for what one white person does to one black person.    That is obviously false, and comes from the father of all falsehoods.

It would be like blaming you Gamecock (and all other Protestants) for what these Calvinist Protestants did.   (See also this account.)

"The Church" did not perform that abuse, and "the Church" did not cover up that abuse.    Individual human beings did those things, and they are responsible for their actions, and to blame others who had nothing to do with either of those evil things (the vast majority of members of God's Church) is to assert an insidious falsehood.

433 posted on 12/05/2014 10:51:07 PM PST by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: Heart-Rest

Sorry. I am not in that particular faith group. Your analogy is therefore flawed.


442 posted on 12/06/2014 3:57:12 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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To: Heart-Rest; Gamecock
>>"The Church" did not perform that abuse, and "the Church" did not cover up that abuse.<<

And the pope only heard about it in the news just like we did right? And God will never punish America because it was only a few who promote and allow all the abominations right?

464 posted on 12/06/2014 6:29:29 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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