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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (110612)	1/18/2008 1:49:58 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Respond to of 132070

zeus, >Bullshit alert: If there were stories about another rapist organization like the Catholic priesthood in the papers everyday i`m sure i along with everyone else would have noticed them! < This is why I keep telling you to take a basic probability and statistics course my friend. The larger the organization, the greater the number of cases. The greater the number of cases, the more publicity. The Catholic Church is huge. (IMHO, there is also an anti Catholic bias in the reporting, but that's another issue). 2% of a very large number is a larger number than 2% of a small number...get it? There will obviously be way more cases among Catholic priests than Rabbis for example. There will obviously be more publicity surrounding priests than school teachers, baby sitters, day care workers etc.. because the priests are and should be held to a higher standard. Back when we first started this conversation I gave you the stats that demonstrated that pedophilia and sexual relationships with post pubescent young adults are no worse for Catholic priests than for a wide variety of other religious and non religious organizations. You didn't pay attention then and you still aren't. In the beginning I gave you enough credit to think you might have had a bad experience in your youth that triggered all this hate. Now I am beginning to question other things.