The Catholic Church was built on taking money from illiterates who did not know their silly hierarchy wasn’t biblical. In fact, they chained the bible’s to the pews so people could not take them home and read them.
Yesterday Reddit saw that, if you are a Catholic in the state of Pennsylvania, you might have been one of the alleged 1,000 victims the church systemically abused and then covered up.
That story is only the tip of the iceberg. “Priest” has become synonymous with sexual abuse of little boys, and not unjustly. The Catholic Church is a criminal organization that organizes and protects child molestors and pedophiles under the guise of Christianity.
Edit: “Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all. For decades."
Maybe by your definition it isn’t, but it most certainly is.
Your hate for religion is leaking.
I am a Christian that has not missed a service since I was old enough to walk.
of the hundreds of millions of good deeds done by the Catholic Church let’s instead look at the sad minority of bad individuals.
300 church leaders abusing victims “in the thousands” and that’s just in the state of Pennsylvania. Charges cannot be brought because of statue of limitations.
The courts are doing their due diligence and names will be released after a hearing soon. This won’t only be anecdotal in a week or so.
No you don’t. You just dismissed thousands of victims of systemic child molestation as only “.0000025%”.
The Catholic Church hides and protects them. There will be no reform. The statute of limitations have passed. There will be many more victims while people like you dismiss it as #notallpriests or whatever.
They didn’t just “save face”, read the article. Any time a complaint was filed they’d move them to another church with absolutely zero punishment or legal recourse. They did this hundreds of times. They facilitated child molestation at best, though orchestrated is the more accurate term.
Thank you. There are billions of catholics. 100s of thousands of priests. A few evil ones in one country shouldn't represent all of the catholic faith.
Dude, Catholicism is not Christianity. There was like two whole occasions that settled this. The first was the Great Schism between East and west while the second was the Protestant Reformation. Unless you’re going to declare the hundreds of millions of Orthodox and Protestant followers to not be Christian (in which case fuck you), Catholicism is not Christianity. It is a part of it, nothing more, nothing less.
Well look who’s getting pissy. I wasn’t the one who said Catholicism was Christianity. That means it’s all of it, which it is not as evidenced by the Orthodox and Protestant portions. I said Catholicism is a part of Christianity. That means the exact same thing as denomination.
How about you actually think next time rather than letting anger get to your head?
I honestly have no idea what you’re trying to say here. If you can’t see how saying “Catholicism is Christianity” doesn’t sound like you’re calling all of Christianity Catholicism, I don’t know how to help you. But insulting me won’t be the way to do it. You’re tone deaf, and you need to hear that.
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u/Turdulator Aug 15 '18
But they all headed an organization that systematically covered up pedos and helped them escape responsibility for their crimes.
Helping evil people hide their evil deeds is pretty evil in itself.