Ted, <I was watching some commentary tonite on the priest who got arrested today. He's the one that promoted boy/man love while he was in the priesthood. Obviously, that's sick and what makes it sicker is that he is a man of the cloth.>
I was wondering that, too. How in on God's earth can this guy advocate pedophilia? I would have that was just a misunderstanding, but not after he got arrested. Who allowed him to become a priest, anyway? I'm not Catholic, so I don't know exactly how it works in the Catholic church. But I do know if my pastor advocated such a perverted idea, I'd either leave his congregation or get him kicked out.
<But what I don't understand is how a priest who is supposed to believe there is a heaven and a hell...... after all they shouldn't be agostic.........could commit such a crime.........I mean why was he not worried that he might go to hell for his perversity.>
Evil has a way of twisting words and distorting rational thinking. The tendency to sin exists in every single human, as you know, and not even a man of the cloth is immune.
What went through his head when he committed his crimes? Maybe he thought sex with boys wasn't really sex, kind of like some people (not just Bill Clinton <G>) thinks oral sex isn't really sex. Maybe he thought his pent up sexual energy should have been released the biological way instead of conquered the spiritual way. Or maybe he looked upon the boys not as boys, but as the Forbidden Fruit, sick as it may sound.
It is very sad to see this happening within the Catholic Church, especially at a time when Western society (so closely associated with Christianity, including Catholicism) is increasingly being seen as the Great Satan.
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