So you're an atheist now? Or at least an agnostic, right?
Surely you're not one of those filthy Protestants? Just like those evil horrible pedophile pastors! (this is sarcasm)
And more seriously, surely you're not under the impression that one priest being bad makes the whole Church invalid? Priests are not infallible and are not perfect, that would go against scripture which the Church never does.
If the Church was susceptible to the machinations of the Devil and the sinfulness of Man, it would have fallen a millennia ago. And that's being generous. We can scarcely keep a functioning government going for 300 years, let alone 1000.
Maybe if you tone down the hyperbole we can entertain the notion, but as presented, no such cases.
Here's a question: Should people who not only worship Satan, but actively doom people to Hell by deceiving them deserve the death penalty? Religious freedom is all good and dandy until your population is filled with a subversive Satanist element that hates you and wants to destroy your faith in God grace.
This notably is not related to people simply... checks notes... reading the Bible.
This dispels plenty of myths and is not explicitly pro-Catholic. It appears to be seeking to, as the name implies, bridge Catholics and Protestants and takes a neutral position. At least, as neutral as you can be when the theme of the article is dispelling myths about Catholicism. The site talks about Christian unity (as far as I can tell, I just found it).
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.
No such cases.
And I used to buy all the Codex Sinaiticus stuff, but then I realized that the only authority with which I can claim the Textus Receptus to be inspired/correctly translated is my own. And I am of course not the authority on scripture. No offense intended, but Protestants display every day why they possess no authority. God evidently did not intend for us to use personal interpretation.
But I digress. The manuscript stuff was also completely unsourced and from what I could find invented by some pastor in the mid to late 1900s (correct me if I'm wrong). Obviously these different manuscripts exist, but no one gave a flying shit about them until like 20 minutes ago. I guess virtually all Christians since Christ have been living a lie and God waited until circa 1950 to fix it
And the Dead Sea Scrolls confirm that the Bible has not been changed.
Also, Codex Sinaiticus is a piece of trash... literally. It was in the bin so long that the Catholic Church couldn't have possibly used it for doctrine. I don't use it or anything based on it.
See, you simply hate the Catholic Church.
It has nothing to do with pedophilia, because you flippantly dismiss the public school issue and continue to act like the Church is a special case.
Also, you're a slanderous liar just like the Devil. The charge of defending pedophiles is serious, and I have done no such thing.
And don't think your straw man has gone unnoticed.
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!
Now we're just playing games... unless of course you're saying that Peter leads the body of believers ;)
I mean the physical Church that Jesus Christ started in the presence of, and which He gifted to, Saint Peter. The Church He started so that His word could be safeguarded and so that right doctrine could be upheld. The Church which has stood for 2000 years in defiance of all we know of human nature when it comes to running institutions.
Martin Luther knowingly or unknowingly followed Satan, and Satan jumped with glee in either case at people making up their own doctrines and throwing out all that was known to be true for some 1500 years. And only in God's Church has the doctrine stayed the same since and always. Everywhere else, people make up new doctrines like it's their favorite denominational pastime, and no one agrees on anything. It's all confusion.
The Catholic Church is the fullness of the truth of God, and the Catholic Church is the very standard by which we even know what qualifies as God's written word. No authority but God exists outside of it to interpret the written word.
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.
Of the Church that was started by Jesus Christ to be led by Peter and which created the Bible out of God's scriptures.
If by a lot you mean an above average amount, then yes, total lie.
Don't forget the vastly higher rates of pedophilia that take place within the public schools before you go and slander God's Church.
So criminals shouldn't be imprisoned because of the mere possibility that it gets turned around and used by the evil against the innocent?
The thing is, if they get control it doesn't matter if we're already doing mass imprisonments or whatever, they'll jail or kill us all the same.
And then you have the entire Catholic Church, of course.
More pedophiles in public schools than the Church.
This tired old lie is itself satanic.
Liberty requires defense. Defense requires power.
If we simply throw out the thing that brought us into a golden age, we'll eventually end up back where we started.
Mass amounts of criminals require mass imprisonment, no?
Frankly, I'm not totally opposed to some nice, feminine fairy princesses, but what I certainly don't want to see are fairy princesses with magic wands in their dresses!
Well, there are two options:
Female to male, or male to female.
Using a bit of critical thinking, we can assume that it probably picked the option that confers it more societal benefits and preferential treatment.
So in conclusion: dude looks like a lady (with a beard).
Roombas, iPhones, and washing machines will do nothing except lead to mass societal decay through rampant lethargy and excessive dependence on convenience.
Ditto for any other such technology.
Enormous shitlib
Trump supported the war machine so hard that he forgot to start a new war.
That's like 5% of the people who voted for him in 2020 in New Jersey.
Seems perfectly plausible to me that 5% of his supporters in the state showed up to a rally, and I see no reason it would suggest Trump has some massive, outcome changing lead. I mean, he probably does, to be clear, just not because of these numbers.
As I said, your source for all your claims is "I'm a pessimistic doomer and can see no other possible outcome other than doom".
The only thing that isn't in doubt here is that your preferred coping skill to deal with bad news is extreme pessimism.
White people are too busy succeeding downwards to be failing upwards.
I don't know who downvoted you here, but for the record it wasn't me.