What about those Catholic priests who abused children?
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As a catholic i am ashamed of those priests and greatly troubled about how they have tarnished the worlds views of catholics.  Not to point fingers though just as many abuses happen all over the world in many different faiths.  The simple fact is that those priests should be (and many are) excomunicated or kicked out of the priest hood.  Another thing that in needed to be pointed out is how hard it is to actually get into the priest hood now as compared to when these pedophiles where geting in is increadably harder now.  They go through an intence screening prosesses and pschologicle testing.  Please do not compare all priests and the many catholics in the world (11% of the worlds population is catholic) to these men.
884885
Christians have already done this... they stole children from native american homes and put them in abusive indian schools.  It didn't save them from hell, it hurt them immesureably.
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Priests are people too. There's no Divine barrier that shields these people from sin once they are ordained.  Mind you, only 6% of priests have been associated in any way to molesting children.\n\nWe all know that society is a cess pool of immorality, so when the average man on the street is discovered to be a child molester, nobody really cares.\n\nBut we expect a Catholic priest to exhibit a proper moral code. So when one is discovered molesting a child, it's a shock.\n\nSociety has made two mistakes here:\n\n1) People, many of them Catholics, have placed priests upon a moral pedistal with standards impossible for any person to follow. We have to remember that priests are people too. They sin like everyone else.\n\n2) The Catholic Church's moral code is unpopular with Western civilization because what it finds morally acceptable, and what secular humanists find morally acceptable, are two different things entirely.\nThe media, largely secular humanistic, uses it's power and influence to attack the Catholic Church whenever possible - and people eat it up because they don't consider themselves sinners.\n\nMy point is that 'what IS' and 'what SEEMS TO BE' are two different things. Yes, some priests are child molesters - but only 6%. That's 6% too high of course, but let's face it; doesn't the media and the anti-Catholic crowd make things seem worse than they really are?
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cos then they would not have much left to play with!!!!!\n\nand we all no how much priests like to play with things even when they dont belong to them
1061627
B 100%. Stop having babies, stop breaking the US laws, stop getting handouts and stop saying CATHOLIC, LMAO. That is joke within itself right there. That is another religion i will never understand. Drink, sell drugs, gangs, and kill people, but BIRTH CONTROL is against their religion. LOL make sense huh? Watch the news, I keep hearing Catholic Priests are child molesters, sure that's a religion to be proud of LOL
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Very well said!\n\nRemember that the people who bring up "all the killing Christians have done" are not really worried or distressed about all the alleged killing.  \n\nThat's just their excuse for throwing rocks at a Church that teaches certain things that they don't want to hear, or that don't jive with their lifestyles.\n\nIt's the same when they blame overpopulation (which is a myth anyway) and poverty on the Church's ban on contraception.\n\nThese blamers aren't really interested in alleviating poverty -- if they were, they would sign up to sponsor a child in a poor country through the many agencies run by the Catholic Church and other Christian institutions.  \n\nNor are they interested in gaining Church-approved contraception for the world's poor.   They're just interested in getting Church-approved contraception for themselves!!!
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It's because they were told as children they'd be eternally tortured if they dare think a different way. It's abuse and mind control at its finest.
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They deserve the torment of each other.\nWell, no, that's bit harsh on the poor kid.
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Yes. And they need to be pared down now. The Child Protective Services in my state make an awful mess of families with no real proof of any reason. They do the children more damage than good by ripping them from famlilies with no explanation, keeping them apart from their families and basically terrorizing everyone. Babies included. I have seen many families destroyed. My son's is one of them. And there seems to be no way to deal with them beyond letting them play thier God games and bowing low each time. Even saying "DHS" in relation to this situation lost one set of grandparents visitiation rights with the kids. This is way, way beyond the scope of their original job.
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I reported a man who kids use to come to my place of work and tell me mommy and daddy make us do all kinds of sexual things,it was all done in secrect,but,they took the kids away and the grandparents have custody and he got 7 months in prison,she was ordered to stay away from the kids!sometimes,speak up to help these poor children,I do,it breaks my heart!The police interviewed the children and both parents where taken in,I still don't understand why she didn't get any time coz she also has aids and probably gave it to her 2 kids!so sad!I pray for them every night!Young children don't know how to make these things up and that was enough to get him arrested and have the children taken away!
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No, the majority I think want to serve God.  The child molesting priest is an exception which we would all like to see removed from society regardless of profession.
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No ... it seems it was not just the having the kid .. it was having the kid tortured and killed that did the trick. Oddly the christians believe that god got over it because he got to watch his son die in agony ... now THAT is one sick religion.
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This is the seat of power for manipulation and corruption on a grand scale. They believe themselves to be law unto themselves, without having to pay for the consequences of their actions.\n\nBut in one sence, we the people throughout history have to take some of the responsibility for this, due to the fact that many in the world were happy to relinquish control of their own actions and responsibilities over to the vatican.\n\nThe big problem that I see, is that Catholics in particular have forgotten that the church is there to serve them not the other way around. Most people forget this, but churches in many cases seem to thrive on it.
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It is nothing new.  It has being going on since time immoreal.  It effects all classes of society, all professions, all religions, the rich and the poor, the young and the old.  It is a curse.  It ruins more people's lives than any other form of abuse.  The do-gooders claim that the perverts are ill and need treatment.  They pay far more attention to them than they do to the victims.  Pedophiles are manipulative, clever and use tactics that can only be imagined.  I will not give any details but suffice is to say that they use language, threats and intimidation on their child victims.  The vast majority of men who have been indecently assaulted when young, seldom if ever tell anyone about their experience.  Most women also keep it 'secret' only informing their husbands when things go wrong much later in life.  Consequently the perverts appear to be 'getting away with it'.  I have worked in law enforcement and everytime the issue of capital punishment arrises (UK), I honestly and sincerely advocate the death penalty for anyone committing a serious sexual offence on a child under the age of ten.  I really mean it.  In my experience, and in many documented cases, they are incapable of being 'cured' of their sick and evil habits.  If an animal was to do what some of these people do to their young, they would be 'put down' immediately. Some of the true stories that I was told by young and indeed elderly people about their experiences as much as fifty years ago would make the strongest of stomachs, retch.  Teachers, doctors, judges, police officers, solicitors, and any other group of people you can imagine are preying on the young of society in every country of the world.  It is a sad, sad state of affairs when we cannot protect them.
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a big thank you thank you, this is what i have been trying to get through to ppl. Its an mental illness that affects people from all walks of life. Not just a catholic priest. Only reason they pick on the catholics about this is because the church doesn't allow the priest to get married. so there  is where they come up with this bs. My point is if  that is the case. then whats  the excuse of all the others that do this  and are married?
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most of them are and the ones that arent protect the ones that are!!!!!!, dont remeber god saying that it was o.k to abuse little children must have missed that bit!!!!!!!!!!! i say kill all clergymen who touch children (only probs is the the hell would there be left to carry on spewing the crap??)decided to convert to jedi much better religion to have and get the force for free,
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There was a time when the priest of Israel where the only means of communicating with God.  They abused their priveledge and then it was no more.  Catholic priest also have abused their power.  They are not your father.  They seek to deceive you.  You speak of the scriptures and say you understand their meaning.  Then do what is asked of you.  Many will persecute you and call you all kinds of names.  But for Christ sake endure these things.  For your treasures are not on this earth.  We will discuss this more when we get there.