JUST IN: Satanic Temple member found guilty of possession of 'very disturbing' child pornography in Idaho: police. "Numerous files of very disturbing child abuse and child pornography were found in Russell's possession during the investigation. Russell is a member of the Idaho chapter of The Satanic
(thepostmillennial.com)
🤢 FAGGOT-GATE 🤢
You made it a point to separate the Catholic Church from other Christian denominations, and to then imply that the rate is much higher than average.
This is a lie, public schools are worse but no one goes after them of course, and some sources even claim it's lower than average in the Church.
Yes, because many people don't consider Catholics to even be Christians.
I'm quite sure that people "go after" pedophiles in the public school system. I'm not sure why you think otherwise.
And the Catholic Church has had an historic "problem" with priests sexually abusing children and it being covered up by TPTB in the church.
I'm curious where you're getting your numbers here.
But do you not see the hypocrisy of one member of The Satanic Temple being accused of pedophilia, and the conversation being about how it's someone from The Satanic Temple? How often does that happen here?
ALL pedophiles suck. It doesn't matter what group they belong to.
But look at the posts here about pedophiles, and its usually a conversation about how it's liberal that is the pedophile, or it's a gay person.
Do people think straight Christians can't be pedophiles? Or are people from The Satanic Temple and gay people and liberals held to a higher standard, and it's particularly horrible when they are the ones that are pedophiles?
Or is it just hypocrisy?
When Christians are pedophiles, it's an outlier. It's also indicative of them going against their professed beliefs.
When Satanists are pedophiles, it's par for the course. It's also indicative of them fulfilling their professed beliefs.
And the majority of Satanists don't have to be pedophiles, but they're surely involved in some other equally evil shit if they aren't. Worshiping the Father of Evil will do that to a person, while worshiping He who created the Heaven and the Earth will generally draw one into the light.
And while yes, all pedophiles suck, all Satanists also suck. This is true whether they unknowingly worship him or are actually full-blown Satanists who knowingly worship him.
And for the gays and the libs, they all suck too, just not as bad. But also, when they do it, it is absolutely indicative of something. To act like this is the same is asinine. I'd bet heavily that the numbers skew higher among such types of people vs your standard straight white male conservative type. Sin rarely exists in isolation, and unless this gay liberal is celibate, he's into plenty of other evil shit. Liberalism is itself a dysfunctional ideology that leads to moral decay by design, and homosexuality is the morally reprehensible decay itself.
It's certainly the case that the idea that public school teachers diddle kids at a far higher rate than Catholic priests is simply objective reality. There are plenty of search results online that assert this.
And in my experience, no one brings up public school teachers. I'm sure the authorities go after them when they catch wind of it, but I'm referring to the people online who like to tell made up stories about the Catholic Church. I never see anyone mention public school pedophilia as even a minor problem, yet plenty of people do it for the Church. It's because they aren't actually concerned with the pedophilia per se, they just don't like the Church.
Calling priests pedophiles is the cool thing to do. It's the accepted behavior. In contrast, no one gives a shit about public school teachers (and I mean in general, not just discussions specifically about the Church), since public school teachers aren't slandered and defamed constantly from all sides. There is no concerted effort by, say, the media to paint them in a negative light. But those filthy Catholics? Bastards the lot of them!
Oh, I'm sure I could pull up all kinds of numbers from Google.
I asked specifically where you got your numbers you're trying to use here. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you've never looked into any actual numbers. It's just what you want to be true.
Because everything you've said here today is an essay on hypocrisy
Everyone believes that the group they're in are the most moral group or are right about things and everyone else are wrong. And then they look for everything they can find about those other groups doing horrible things and make huge deals out of each and every one of them while conveniently ignoring the same things from amongst their own group.
But hey, I could be wrong. Maybe you actually have put a bit of effort into finding out if those numbers really do work out they way you're saying, and you're not just the walking definition of "confirmation bias". But the only way to know which is true is to look at those numbers myself.
So where are you getting your numbers?
You've mistaken a brittle branch for a mighty limb. The first one I've seen before and based my public school claim on, the second one I found today while writing the comment I brought it up in. I try very hard to not make claims I can't back up with at least something (whether logical reasoning or evidence).
https://go2tutors.com/teachers-more-likely-abuse-kids/ (if I'm being honest here, the mere existence of this link proves me wrong about NOBODY bringing up teachers)
https://www.votf.org/wp-content/uploads/John_Jay_Causes_and_Context_Report.pdf
I'm sure you'll find plenty of ways to write off these numbers so that you're still right in your mind, and I'm still wrong in your mind.
This is the thing: I'm sure you could find plenty of your own numbers, and I'm not very interested in slinging numbers back and forth while we each pretend ours are better just because we believe them. These things are hard to figure out, particularly because people don't always come forward, and also because there are false cases. Among other things, of course.
Now, what do you propose I believe? That the Church I believe to be inerrant and the very religion I hold total faith in is only kind of morally righteous? We're pretty good, but those gays over there have some good stuff going for them too.
And me challenging the existence of something is not ignoring it. The things you claim about the Church are simply untrue, I can't be ignoring something that doesn't exist. And unfortunately, I can't ignore it because people love to repeat it again and again. I mean, it's not like I haven't looked. I'm sure I could always look better, longer, etc. but I have looked. And I've seen no evidence outside of the usual cherry-picked tripe.
How do you propose I acknowledge the pedo priests that do exist, though? All I can really do is acknowledge their existence, the same as I do for teachers and Joe Biden. And it's not like I regularly talk about pedo teachers while ignoring priests (though who can resist talking about the Sniffer in Chief?), but when I see the priest shit, I feel compelled to point out that it isn't true. My usual method is comparing the rate to the rate of public school teachers, since I think that demonstrates quite well that it's not an unusual rate unique to priests. Unless you're ready to claim that the public schools are diddling at an absurdly high rate and that the Church is also up there, just not as bad.
I don't know who downvoted you here, but for the record it wasn't me.