Zeus,
I would have no problem with Jesus or anyone else cleaning house on the Catholic Church and removing all the pedophiles, aggressive homosexuals, aggressive heterosexuals, and anyone else that knowingly protected them and put others in danger.
What I have a problem with is intrinsically evil liberals with a political motivation to discredit and destroy the Church using their media and other powers to do so because many of its teachings run counter to their own political agenda.
What we are getting is biased reporting, flat out lies, and double standards etc... instead of an intellectual and evidence based discussion of what really happened, why it happened, how it can be fixed etc...
The reality is that between 2%-5% of all priests in perhaps the largest institution on the planet behaved despicably. That combined with ignorance and occasionally despicable behavior by a few people with power to add immensely to the problem. However, the numbers for Catholics are no different than in our public institutions and for other religions. It's just the size of the institutions and the reporting that is different.
Pointing out the actual numbers and the equal behavior elsewhere is not a defense of the behavior. It's an attack on the double standards and political motivation of the attackers. That's what I object to.
This all leaves me in a very uncomfortable position when it comes to liberals and the Church that raised me (I'm agnostic now).
I am very disappointed in the church that raised me (even though I am agnostic now), but I am also almost entirely convinced that liberals are so intrinsically evil, there is little hope for mankind as long as any of them have any political, media, economic, or financial power over the ignorant and unintelligent masses. But even worse, I think there's only one way to prevent the slow cancerous growth of their power. I'm just not the one to do it. |
