[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]ephrem wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
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[quote]Cortes wrote:
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[quote]ephrem wrote:
…why are people defending him [the Pope] and the catholic church? [/quote]
Umm, who here has done that so far?
Dawkins is a pompous, hubristic, opportunistic ass who couldn’t give two shits about “the children.”
This is yet another attempt to destroy Catholicism via malicious defamation and mudslinging, nothing more.
Tell me again about “religious nuts” and their “righteousness.” [/quote]
…is it your opinion that much of the child abuse accusations from all over the world are malicious defamation and mudslinging? If it’s not, then what’s your stance on this issue?[/quote]
Child abuse in any instance is wrong. Its perpetrators should be prosecuted and its victims or potential victims protected.
What Dawkins (and Mak) is doing here has nothing whatsoever, at its heart, to do with punishing the perpetrators of child abuse. It has everything to do with jumping opportunistically at a chance to harm the Catholic Church and, by extension, all religions that subscribe to a deity or deities.
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…but, as it turns out, the pope = the catholic church conspired to cover-up child abuse cases and stifle whistleblowers. It’s not just a priest that’s guilty of child abuse, but it’s the entire catholic church system that’s guilty of enabling these practices to continue for decades on decades![/quote]
Have fun making your point, Eph. You are arguing something I never brought up nor had any intention of arguing.
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…no worries mate, the hole Rome is digging for itself is too deep to crawl out from unscathed…
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The people who perpetrated these crimes should be punished and the victims or potential victims protected. I’m pretty sure I already said that once.[/quote]
…and apparently those crimes reach the highest echelons of the catholic church, and as such the pope should be held accountable for those crimes…