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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
Thor
This is another retread of the same topic we get on here each week. This week its about catholics. Next week muslims. Week after that it will be about mormons or an offshoot of the LDS. Then on to the jews. Back to Catholics. Add a dose of anglican criticism. Then back to the muslims again.
Rinse and repeat.
If you dont like someone pointing out the obvious, then dont respond to my posts in this thread. Im catholic. I find these allegations disgusting if true. But at the same time Im also tired of the holier-than-thou agnostics or athiests who go out of their way to sensationalize every religious scandal to talk about how smart they are that they dont practice. This week its catholics, and like I said above, next week it will be someone else, and it never ends.
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So when the Vatican tries to excuse away the abuse by suggesting other religions are just as bad and if not worse, and also to suggest its not pedophilia but homosexuality this is something you are offended I bring up.
Sorry but the Vatican or the Shriners for all I care deserve to be called out and made to feel the wrath of secular and religious people when they attempt to hide the crime, deflect or excuse it.
As a Catholic I'm sure you agree its wrong, but yet you fight me on the topic of I think I'm better than religious people. I prefer to judge people on their actions and pick on particular issues rather than a broad 'religion sucks boo' type attitude.
We sweep too many of these topics like the abuse of children in your church, the anti gay sentiment coming out of the Vatican not to mention the Mormon's fighting prop 9 in California, the evangelical zeal against the gay rights movement, etc..
The whole point of these discussions is to freely call out things we don't agree with, exactly why political threads are often massive, passionate and long. You'll notice the same can be said for these threads, they have a lot of people involved and while not every one of them is a gem, there are certainly a lot of great discussions with rational people on both sides of the fence.
For example, Political threads I tend to stay away from, I find them frustrating and only make me mad since I'm so disillusioned with politics and the partisanship that is so prevalent in our countries now.
Its just that religion is a sensitive topic to some people, people find this stuff offensive because its a topic thats been taboo for so damn long, well if you can't stand our elitist know it all talk, then why bother coming in here at all, let alone tell us to not have a conversation about something we do care about.