The Vatican and 12 year olds?, page 1

Originally posted by JJay55
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler

Yeah we understand that, but the past is past. No reason to have an old law on the books in this day and age when the Vatican should represent something higher than pedophilia. The Vatican should be pressed to change this policy immediately and they should offer an apology for not changing it sooner.

Who though by the way sets the age of consent where you live? The Vatican or your State?

Do you also understand that not everyone in the world lives as you do?

When I say that I mean do you understand that there are many poor Catholics who still live in very poor third world nations where many of them live still very short, hard lives devoid of nutritional diets and quality medicine very much like our own European Ancestors and early American settlers did.

Do they no longer deserve to have their unions between a man and a woman sanctified by the church because you are fortunate enough to live a much higher standard of life?

Do the nations that they live in who allow their citizens to be Catholics and who also allow by their own laws unions at an earlier age than most States in America supposed to outlaw this because it offends your sensibilities even though your sensibilities are based on life as you know it in a world that they themselves don't live in and don't know?

Please tell me my friend that you are not so bent upon some moral crusade that you are not aware that billions of people around the world earn less than 1.00 dollar a month and our lucky to eat one small handful of rice a day?

Please tell my my friend that you are not so bent upon some moral crusade that you are not aware that the Vatican and the Holy See adminsters to the spirituality of it's faithful in those very same countries as well as ours.

Does it offend you some nations have no oil, or much tillable land, no significant natural resources and are poor nations as a result and their citizens poor by extension too?

Are they supposed to rob our banks or abandon their homes and families to get jobs at 7-Elevens here in America to eliminate what offends your sensibilities?

Have you ever thought that maybe there are legitimate reasons that are valid to millions of human beings why this law might still stand on the Vatican's books or were your knees jerking to hard and to often and kept striking you in the head to first ask why before you started to cry and decry.

Congradulations you have a narrow world view. Now why don't you open your eyes and try to understand it better, as in why it is how it is, instead of telling us all how it should be, without one significant notion of not only how the world really is, but how you could truly change it to become a better place.

Anger and indignity is not conducive to rational thought. Rather it is just conducive to anger and indignity.

I mean no disrespect but I don't believe you have pondered this situation in depth or asked any critical questions.

You are simply making critical statements based on your own limited environment life experiences and narrow world view.

Thanks!

[edit on 28/10/09 by ProtoplasmicTraveler]