Now, There are a million things I'd like to reply to here...
But just a couple for now...
Firstly for "catholic man" Robbie... I'm a Christian, denominations aside... we both know there are deep seeded problems with all the denominations. I attend an Anglican Church, and I'm not oblivious to it's faults. But neither am I oblivious to glaring theological problems with Catholicism. So I ask about Indulgences, praying to Saints and not neccessarily Jesus, Purgatory and two other little things. Firstly, do you call yourself a Christian or a Catholic. Secondly why Catholicism?
Ok my second point is this... the one thing that is missing from this debate is the same thing that is missing from a lot of Christian debates. It's missing from Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion" and Christopher Hitchens book (I can't remember the title for the life of me) something like why God doens't exist.
It's the Human Condition... called Sin...
It's the thing that's ruined this world... the thing that tears families apart, causes men to rape women, causes homosexuality (yes a provocative statement, but ask me WHY... it's not an uniformed, unscientific statement by a long shot), causes death, war, theft, fraud, and every other nasty thing in this word...
not religion, not the actions of the few... but the selfish actions of every single person on this planet...
Priests commit paedophilic acts because they are sinful... it is the most simple and definate answer to the question at hand...
For Non-Christians or non-believers, think of it as the common quote "we're all human" and we all stuff up majorly... I know of no-one who has ever been perfectly Good except Jesus himself...
There are probably just as many paedophiles outside the church as there are inside it... in fact more because there's more people outside the church then in it (and I say Church as the WHOLE Christian Church)...
This doesn't justify it, and isn't an attempt to (because you can't justify it, not now, not at Judgement Day,not ever)... it just explains why it happens (along with everything else that sucks in this world or ruins lives...
AND WHY ON EARTH IS THIS IN LIGHT AND OFFBEAT NEWS? Geh?
Smile everyone, be HAPPY!!!
But just a couple for now...
Firstly for "catholic man" Robbie... I'm a Christian, denominations aside... we both know there are deep seeded problems with all the denominations. I attend an Anglican Church, and I'm not oblivious to it's faults. But neither am I oblivious to glaring theological problems with Catholicism. So I ask about Indulgences, praying to Saints and not neccessarily Jesus, Purgatory and two other little things. Firstly, do you call yourself a Christian or a Catholic. Secondly why Catholicism?
Ok my second point is this... the one thing that is missing from this debate is the same thing that is missing from a lot of Christian debates. It's missing from Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion" and Christopher Hitchens book (I can't remember the title for the life of me) something like why God doens't exist.
It's the Human Condition... called Sin...
It's the thing that's ruined this world... the thing that tears families apart, causes men to rape women, causes homosexuality (yes a provocative statement, but ask me WHY... it's not an uniformed, unscientific statement by a long shot), causes death, war, theft, fraud, and every other nasty thing in this word...
not religion, not the actions of the few... but the selfish actions of every single person on this planet...
Priests commit paedophilic acts because they are sinful... it is the most simple and definate answer to the question at hand...
For Non-Christians or non-believers, think of it as the common quote "we're all human" and we all stuff up majorly... I know of no-one who has ever been perfectly Good except Jesus himself...
There are probably just as many paedophiles outside the church as there are inside it... in fact more because there's more people outside the church then in it (and I say Church as the WHOLE Christian Church)...
This doesn't justify it, and isn't an attempt to (because you can't justify it, not now, not at Judgement Day,not ever)... it just explains why it happens (along with everything else that sucks in this world or ruins lives...
AND WHY ON EARTH IS THIS IN LIGHT AND OFFBEAT NEWS? Geh?
Smile everyone, be HAPPY!!!