[Sliver]

Originally Posted by The Familia

Nice. Way to paint every religious person with a broad brush. Do you always stereotype people or things you don’t like? Hate to break it to you, but the majority of people on this planet are religious or spiritual and strongly believe in God in some fashion. I can assure you the majority of them are good people and don’t believe or support the actions of a few nut jobs.

lol, I barely know how to begin with you. Your whole post was just nonsense and misunderstanding. And why are you so angry? I'm the one who should be mad at you...your book and your beliefs claim I'm going to burn in hell for eternity because I don't believe what you believe. That's such a horrible and violent claim you have against me and my family - and with no evidence. Honestly, I think you're a lunatic if you believe that.

I did paint every religious person with a broad brush, though, but it's completely fair. I mean, religious people are proud to have faith. They have faith that their beliefs are true despite a complete lack of evidence. They are proud of their shunning of facts and logic in favour of - quite frankly - a bunch of obvious malarkey and contradiction.

As for are they good people? Yes, of course religious people are every bit as good as areligious people. They have just been subjected to a barrage of manipulation and indoctrination from birth. It seems as though religion carves out pathways or something in the brain to hardwire beliefs that are utterly preposterous when presented to educated adults. With few exceptions, you need to steep somebody in religion from a young age to get it to take.

Have you ever tried the classic replace the word God with Odin or Zeus in the bible and then read it? You'll potentially get a bit of a taste of what we hear when you talk about god.

Originally Posted by The Familia

Are there some pedo priests and/or nut job religious people? Of course there are, but are you trying to tell me that there are 4-5 billion pedophiles and nut jobs out there because you are “unsurprised” about one particular case? Cause that’s the amount of religious people that are on this planet. I’m sure I can find just as many non religious sexual predators or wackos....oh wait you don’t even have to look hard, just read this thread and all the celebrities who fit the bill. I can guarantee that the majority of these Hollywood directors, actors/actresses, and people in the film industry are not religious.

Is it possible pedophiles are attracted to the church because they know they will have authority over children, unearned/undeserved trust, and a never ending supply of victims? Is it also possible they know they'll be protected by the institution of the church?

Take religion out of pedophilia for a second, though. I don't think people are pedophiles because they're religious...if you do, let me know and we can discuss. It appears as though the institutional side of Hollywood was protecting pedophiles and abusers from consequence and accountability for way too long. That is under the microscope right now. Well the church has been protecting pedophiles from consequence and accountability for way too long, too. Both are a problem and both should be examined, victims compensated to the extent possible, perpetrators punished and the institution changed to prevent future occurrences. Any thoughtful person will look at both institutions with the exact same critical eye. I assume you agree with that, so I'm not sure why you posed your point as though we were giving one a pass and not the other.

Originally Posted by The Familia

So according to sliver and undercover brother, I can safely assume that anyone living in Hollywood or working in the film or music industry are sexual predators, womanizers, woman beaters, cheaters, rich entitled #######s or sexist pigs. I should be unsurprised when a rap artist beats his wife or a director forces a young actress to give him a BJ. Hmm and all this time I thought Steven Spielberg was a good guy...he probably molested the entire Jurassic Park cast.

Sorry, this one is so off the wall and without any basis that I'm not going to bother with it.