Another hit to the Catholic Church

[m_asim]

This time in Pennsylvania. More than 1000 children were molested and crimes hidden by active participation by higher ups for more than 7 decades

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/catholic-church-sex-abuse-pennsylvania.html

If these molestors were not priests, then they (and their protectors) would be locked up (and getting shanked) in jails. Why does US law enforcement and society gives clergy such leeway? If it were up to me, I'd castrate all of these monsters.

 

[lam@barf]

Time to take away the church's tax-free status and use those funds for treatment of the survivors of the abuse.

New legislation to charge everyone hiding the crimes as an accessory and co-conspirator with the same sentencing standards as there is for the predator.

Do that and see how long it takes them to fix that sh!t.

 

[asdfghwy]

absolutely disgusting, but not surprising AT ALL

 

[Blankpage]

Child molesting priests, no way.

 

[bruceflinch]

Just when you thought it couldn’t be worse.

 

[Bubba_s]

If only religious people would act like they tell everyone else to act.

More proof, there is no god.

 

[asdfghwy]

If only religious people would act like they tell everyone else to act.

More proof, there is no god.

When I read and learn about the universe, I edge more to the side that there probably is one.... it's just not something a human conjured up to instill fear, rule populations, and go to war over

 

[Blankpage]

When I read and learn about the universe, I edge more to the side that there probably is one.... it's just not something a human conjured up to instill fear, rule populations, and go to war over

Actually the more you look at it the more it looks exactly like that.
Before a god belief they were throwing sacrificial virgins into volcanoes, worshipping the sun, the moon, the stars, Zeus.
If you were to visit an isolated jungle tribe they would have their own beliefs as varied as all the developed nations each have a variety of religious beliefs.
Give a species the ability to think and they'll come up with some bizarre beliefs.

 

[CoorsLight]

When I read and learn about the universe, I edge more to the side that there probably is one.... it's just not something a human conjured up to instill fear, rule populations, and go to war over

Off topic: If you are willing to elaborate, I’m curious what you’ve learned that makes the notion of a god more plausible.

On topic: I truly hope the Pope acts decisively on this, in contrast to his almost criminal inactivity to date.

 

[budman]

Disgusting shit.

Those people should be in jail.

 

[Removed 3]

the Pennsyvania Grand Jury describes a playbook with guidelines to help conceal the truth? so if these Catholic priests abused all these children in PA and got away with it for over 70yrs, think of how many more children out there in other locations that have not been identified or helped? The Catholic Church has too much power.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/pennsylvania-child-abuse-catholic-church.html

 

[mototireguy]

Time to take away the church's tax-free status and use those funds for treatment of the survivors of the abuse.

New legislation to charge everyone hiding the crimes as an accessory and co-conspirator with the same sentencing standards as there is for the predator.

Do that and see how long it takes them to fix that sh!t.

+1

The church is basically acting as a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization. They must think they have some divine immunity. Charge them as such and revoke tax-exemption.

Covering up these crimes, avoiding scrutiny and stonewalling (because God says it's ok to protect the Church) promotes furtherance of more to come.

 

[byke]

Off topic: If you are willing to elaborate, I’m curious what you’ve learned that makes the notion of a god more plausible.

On topic: I truly hope the Pope acts decisively on this, in contrast to his almost criminal inactivity to date.

Yeah, mine's the opposite. The notion of a super king, the highest level magician, the blue man from watchman, I dream of jeannie, just a lazy flick of the wrist or a nose wiggle and poof, make it so and so it's made. As I drift further from childhood and believing anything I'm told and recognize that all 'evidence' is created by humans, believing just doesn't feel like the responsible thing to do.

On the tax exemption, it really shouldn't be connected to something like this, because then it's punitive and punishments have a lifespan.

 

[CocoLoco]

A little tangential since it happened in Maryland, has anyone watched The Keepers on Nertflerx?

 

[Eldritch]

I have a bunch of Irish Immigrants that work for me. They tell me the papacy has completely lost Ireland based on child abuse scandals. Like, 100 years of killing their cousins in the North would be sustained, but the kid touching just finally was too much.

 

[Blankpage]

Those Irish christian brothers schools were pure nightmare horror shows.

 

[bergmen]

Disgusting shit.

Those people should be in jail.

I think a firing squad would be more appropriate but with incremental torture starting with each knee and working up over several hours or days.

Dan

 

[Eldritch]

Those Irish christian brothers schools were pure nightmare horror shows.

The Catholic Church was invented to continue centuries of Roman Imperial perversion, so like it isn't a surprise, but I am amazed that they lost Eire. I wouldn't have thought they would have lost Eire until Italy itself came down.

 

[asdfghwy]

Off topic: If you are willing to elaborate, I’m curious what you’ve learned that makes the notion of a god more plausible.

On topic: I truly hope the Pope acts decisively on this, in contrast to his almost criminal inactivity to date.

It's more when I start to question things like how did our universe come into existence, where the universe ends, what's outside(what happens when/if you can reach the end of it), and what the universe is "in". Everything has to exist within something, right? Things like this bring serious thoughts of something bigger than all of us, god or not.

Maybe this line of thinking makes me like all the humans before me who use god to justify or explain things they will never understand--and I'm fine with that. All I know is it sure as hell isn't some dude born in the middle east 2000 years ago, and I'm not going to hell for eating bacon or drinking alcohol. Humans and earth aren't even a blip in the universe or it's timeline

 

[Eldritch]

Everything has to exist within something, right?

Um. No. That is a Human assumption.