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    What the freak happened to the Catholic Church! Pure evil...

    ...Named In Pa. Grand Jury Sex Abuse Report: ‘They Were Raping Little Boys & Girls’

    The report cites 301 priests, clergy and lay teachers with credible allegations against them. There are 99 in the Diocese of Pittsburgh alone.

    Of those 99, a group of four groomed and violently sexually assaulted young boys, said Shapiro.

    One boy was forced to stand on a bed in a rectory, strip naked and pose as Christ on the cross for the priests. They took photos of their victim, adding them to a collection of child pornography which they produced and shared on church grounds,” Shapiro said.

    Shapiro said the priests would mark their victims by giving them gifts.

    To make it easier to target their victims, the priests gave their favored boys gifts – gold crosses to wear as necklaces. The crosses were markings of which boys had been groomed for abuse,” Shapiro said.

    https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018...port-released/
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    For people like that, when they are called to judgment, they will likely wish that a millstone had been tied about their neck and thrown into the sea.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by rogue06 View Post


      For people like that, when they are called to judgment, they will likely wish that a millstone had been tied about their neck and thrown into the sea.
      And the Church protected these abusers every step of the way:https://www.wtae.com/article/pennsyl...ceses/22727091

      And it is not just here but South America and pretty much worldwide. What is going on?
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      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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      • #4
        The Catholic Church has been and always will be a cult that deifies sinful men and worships a false God.
        Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
        But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
        Than a fool in the eyes of God


        From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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        • #5
          Why would some people be so evil and stupid? Do they think they can get away with anything by claiming to be Christians? I don't think God would want wolves in sheep's clothing hurting His lambs. Jesus loves the little children. Jesus is omnipotent/omniscient/omnipresent. Don't mess with children. Don't oppress anyone weaker than you Period. For we are talking of a Person who would make all the overpowered characters of all fiction look like a litter of newborn kittens.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
            The Catholic Church has been and always will be a cult that deifies sinful men and worships a false God.
            I strongly disagree with the RCC but I'm not willing to say they worship another god altogether like, say, Islam.
            "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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            • #7
              I don't think the Catholic church as a whole cares about addressing the sexual abuse scandal. Pope Francis called all victims who accused a prominent church figure in Chile liars, then it turned out the allegations were all true.

              Another telling set of quotes comes from Catholic reporter John Allen, who thought that "Vatican viewed American cultural attitudes toward sexuality as being somewhat hysterical as well as exhibiting a lack of understanding of the Catholic Church", in the context of American audiences being upset about the cover-up in Boston. Apparently being upset about priests raping boys is "hysterical".
              "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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              • #8
                Originally posted by seer View Post
                What the freak happened to the Catholic Church! Pure evil...
                Yes, it is pure evil. I think a lot of it has to do with Rome's requirement that priests be celibate. Until homosexuality became mainstream, closet homosexuals tended to become priests to avoid the stigma of remaining single. Several Catholic seminaries in the US have been notorious hotbeds of homosexuality for decades (e.g., Notre Dame has long been referred to as Notre Flame). Children are easier to coerce than adults, so they become the targets of forcibly repressed sexuality. Since Rome has long struggled with a shortage of priests, known abusers would be shuffled elsewhere rather than defrocked, as should have happened.
                Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                  The Catholic Church has been and always will be a cult that deifies sinful men and worships a false God.
                  Well, no - on all three counts.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                    Yes, it is pure evil. I think a lot of it has to do with Rome's requirement that priests be celibate. Until homosexuality became mainstream, closet homosexuals tended to become priests to avoid the stigma of remaining single. Several Catholic seminaries in the US have been notorious hotbeds of homosexuality for decades (e.g., Notre Dame has long been referred to as Notre Flame). Children are easier to coerce than adults, so they become the targets of forcibly repressed sexuality. Since Rome has long struggled with a shortage of priests, known abusers would be shuffled elsewhere rather than defrocked, as should have happened.
                    I grew up Catholic, the only scandals we had were Priests chasing women.
                    Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                      I strongly disagree with the RCC but I'm not willing to say they worship another god altogether like, say, Islam.
                      I was referring mainly to the Pope who they claim speaks for God yet says so many things that contradict the Bible.
                      Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                      But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                      Than a fool in the eyes of God


                      From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                        I was referring mainly to the Pope who they claim speaks for God yet says so many things that contradict the Bible.
                        What you said was "the Catholic church" worships a false god. That refers to everybody in the church.
                        "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by seer View Post
                          And the Church protected these abusers every step of the way:https://www.wtae.com/article/pennsyl...ceses/22727091

                          And it is not just here but South America and pretty much worldwide. What is going on?
                          At least in this case, it seems to be more a case of what was going on. The number of reported incidents in Pennsylvania actually dropped off considerably starting in the 1990's (82 incidents were from the 1980's, but the 1990's had a dramatic reduction to 16, then to 5 in the 2000's), which I believe was when they started enacting better policies to try to protect people. Of course, it's also possible that people are simply more likely to report incidents from longer ago because they've better come to grips with it.

                          But as for what was/is going on? A combination of some individuals being extremely screwed up and no one in higher authority doing anything about it for too long due to fear of scandal, which of course only caused the scandal to be way worse when it actually did break.

                          Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                          Yes, it is pure evil. I think a lot of it has to do with Rome's requirement that priests be celibate. Until homosexuality became mainstream, closet homosexuals tended to become priests to avoid the stigma of remaining single. Several Catholic seminaries in the US have been notorious hotbeds of homosexuality for decades (e.g., Notre Dame has long been referred to as Notre Flame). Children are easier to coerce than adults, so they become the targets of forcibly repressed sexuality. Since Rome has long struggled with a shortage of priests, known abusers would be shuffled elsewhere rather than defrocked, as should have happened.
                          While it's often blamed, I'm not sure the celibacy requirement is that major a factor, because I'm not sure if things are necessarily that much better in the Protestant churches, which rarely have any kind of requirement of celibacy. The lack of a central authority for Protestant churches makes data harder to determine (even individual churches that are part of a larger denomination, such as the Southern Baptist Churches, retain considerable autonomy), but I stumbled upon this article which examines, based on reports from insurance companies that cover the majority of Protestant churches, the number of times there have been accusations against them. While admittedly the numbers (260 per year from accusers that are younger than 18) is only the number of accusations, not the number that could be seen as credible, contrariwise this doesn't include all the Protestant churches and doesn't include any that didn't end up going to the insurance companies.

                          The Catholic Church is of course the one getting the most attention in regards to this, which is understandable because it's the biggest denomination in the United States, but I'm left wondering if things that necessarily that much better (on average) in the non-Catholic churches, which again do not have celibacy requirements for their ministers.
                          Last edited by Terraceth; 08-14-2018, 11:36 PM.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                            The Catholic Church has been and always will be a cult that deifies sinful men and worships a false God.
                            Christian hypocrisy can be found everywhere including among Evangelicals. Fallen pastors and leaders include famous men like Ted Haggard, one of many anti-gay activists caught being gay, and Tony Alamo, who was sentenced to 175 years in prison for pedophilia

                            https://www.ranker.com/list/pastors-...evieve-carlton

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