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)
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How about if we both promise to try to do better in the future? 🙂
I actually agree with you on this. I'm pretty sure this board skews heavily towards Protestants. At least, those who are vocal on their particular church seem to be.
The entire reason why I listed Catholics separately in my comment was because whenever pedophiles in Christianity is a topic here, there always seems to be at least one or two people who argue that it's the Catholics who are the pedophiles, and they don't count as Christians.
So trying to avoid that argument lead to this argument. Now that I've sat and thought about what I said, and why I said it, I realize I was basically pandering to those types of Protestants. Because since there seems to be fewer Catholics here, I formed my comment with the reactions of Protestants in mind. And in doing so, played right into the idea that Catholics have higher rates of pedophilia than other religions/denominations.
So, yes, I did shit on Catholics, though it wasn't my intention to do so. But it does show a distinct bias against Catholics.
If nothing else comes out of this conversation, having to think more about why I said what I did has brought on some much needed self reflection.
I apologize for that, sincerely.
I saw your post about missionaries after I made my post. It's an interesting take.
I can certainly promise to always try to do better. I'm already so much better now than I was before I became a Protestant. Becoming Catholic only heaped on more improvements from there. God truly does wonders.
And while that's always the sense I got, you've gotten an awful lot of downvotes and my comments seems to be favored here. Not that votes matter, but it is interesting since it seems opposite what I'd usually expect regarding a discussion on Catholicism here. To be fair, I have noticed that we have a good few Catholic users in some threads. I'm pretty sure there exists a decent contingent of us that just usually don't make that explicitly clear unless someone goes after the Church. And even then, sometimes it's just easier to not cause even more division than there already is. Infighting helps no one.
Also, very insightful, that makes a lot of sense. Damned if you do and damned if you don't I suppose, kek.
Thanks again for the apology, I appreciate it and all is good. Props for the self-reflection as well. In my experience, most people would just stop responding rather than think about their side or admit to doing anything wrong. I often feel like I stand somewhat alone in being willing to do that, at least online. I really do try to be as fair as possible, though sometimes I do better than other times, of course.
And as for my 'missionaries' take, well I'd much rather it be interesting than expected/predictable ;)