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Marriage has nothing to do with these sick thugs. They do this because they can. Like any variety of rape, it's about the power trip more than the physical gratification. These men feel they are some of the most powerful people on the planet, and that they can get what they want from people too scared and vulnerable to say no - and then they're confident that their organization will cover them up while the rest of the world pretends that being "religious" makes them untouchable.
Originally posted by Freeborn
Many, of not all, Buddhist and Hindu Monks are celibate yet we hear very few stories of Buddhist of Hindu paedophilia.....therefore I thinks it's reasonable to assume that even though celibacy may not help the situation, and in my humble opinion is highly 'unsual', it can not be seen as the primary cause of the apparent high number of cases of paedophilia involving The Roman Carholic priesthood.
In Rome, relations with boys took a more informal and less civic path, with older men either taking advantage of dominant social status to extract sexual favors from their social inferiors, or carrying on illicit relationships with freeborn boys.[13]
Judaism and Christianity condemned sodomy (while defining that term variously, but including relations between males). Islam also prohibited the practice.
Pederasty.
Originally posted by Freeborn
reply to post by gps777
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The popular, and just, outrage at paedophilia is a relatively new phenomonom.
Originally posted by BLKMJK
Originally posted by meathed
I god we trust, my arse! ( pardon the pun )
The hand of God touches children in all the wrong place's.
I hate your God , it makes me sick
What in the hell is the reason for this garbage? You cannot be serious. "The hand of God touches children in all the wrong places" Really? You sir have a twisted mind to blame something in which does not exist in your opinion. It is detestable animals that use their status to prey on the weak. Try hating them instead of trying to make an illogical stab at religion in general.
Originally posted by BLKMJK
reply to post by TribeOfManyColours
It came off as a slight against believers to me but I am getting out of this thread as it hits to close to home having family members abused. The course joking and smile icons within such a sensitive subject just makes me #ing sick. I humbly bow out of this subject.
Originally posted by BLKMJK
Think about this for a moment. I really think that these sick scum bags are already pedophiles prior to becoming priests. I think they join in the hopes that they can control their detestable thoughts they have towards children and fail in the end. What else could it be? It just does not make sense that Priests turn into these monsters. They brought it with them IMO.
You molest a child, you deserve to be executed.
Originally posted by Uncle Gravity
A little known fact is that there here in the UK there are more instances of sexual abuse of children involving clergy from The Church Of England and other Protestant denominations than there are of those involving Catholic priests.
Do you have a link to prove this?
Originally posted by dawnstar
I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't have something to do with the way the bible portrays women as being dirty, evil creatures that man must overpower, rule and dominate over....
they just don't want to get their hands dirty.....
a small lad is higher on the spiritual scale then a women is...
Originally posted by blupblup
I like the South Park episode "Red Hot Catholic Love"
I can't find the clip I want from that episode, where we discover that all the priests are molesting kids and the only one not doing it is Father Maxi (The local South Park priest) and he is appalled that all the other priests are in on it.... so he goes to the Vatican
Originally posted by JudasIscariot
These people don't represent God, they are monsters disguised as priests pleasing themselves.
I don't know how church-going Catholics can look at their own children in the face knowing that these monsters are protected and are criminals of the worst kind. Why would anyone support and follow an organisation that protects monsters who rape and defile children?
Originally posted by Vicky32
Yeah, South Park is a really reliable source of information about Catholicism! The writers/producers are Libertarian Jews.
They have had (to use an Americanism) a 'hard-on' against Catholics forever - but when they tried it on against Scientology they got pinged!
V.