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Originally Posted by Cheese
Mike,
I think your losing the point here. Noone is suggesting that non religious people who do the same thing arent sick or disturbed. Quite the opposite I would think. The issue is that there are clerics of ALL religious stripes, who are hired and put in a position of trust and caring for our children, caught preying...(vs praying, sic)...on the children. It doesnt matter whether its 1% or 5% of the clerics that do this, the fact is the children are sent to these parishes with the full belief that what they are doing is making them closer to God with their parents consent! In the end these children get a mind fark of the highest order. This has been going on for centuries with noone calling them out for their sick and horrible abuse on children!
Finally when we see it for what it is, and bring it to the attention of everyone, you try to turn it on us and make it appear that a pedophile is a pedophile no matter where or what he is?
Are you suggesting that we simply "turn a blind eye" to this matter and never bring it up at all?
Is that what the parishioners are doing in the various churches they attend?
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I'd be more worried about the public school system in which we put our trust in teachers to guide, care, and tutor our children. It doesn't downplay the concerns in the Catholic church but to only focus your concern and statistics on that and not secular society makes for a very poor approach to the board. Your attacking one segment of something that surrounds every part of society whether it's encompassing a religious sect or your neighbor's dayhome. No difference. So to me your looking through a pretty damn small window pane, there is a lot more out there you are failing to oblige, and its a hell of a lot bigger then the Catholic church or religion period.