go find a new branch of christianity. there’s plenty that don’t cover up child abuse and molestation for centuries! i genuinely don’t even know how the catholics made it. if any regular business was doing what they were doing and it got out, they’d be done! it’s the idiocy of the followers that’s going to put more children in danger. they all should’ve left.
they’ve atoned their sins for the most part! obviously still some nazis over there, no shortage of them even, but they’ve done a lot to right the ship as a whole and we also still talk about how bad the nazis were quite often. we talked about a centuries long pedophilia for like 2 weeks a decade ago and everyone forgot lol. the caths barely lost membership, so it wasn’t *too* bad for even normal members, and if you bring it up now, you get told you’re insane.
there were 270,000 victims in france alone from the 1950 to 2020. god knows how many it actually is considering how old and widespread the religion is. and no one talks about it anymore. the membership has barely flinched. the church got away with it for all intents and purposes. the fact that that doesn’t make you angry makes me wonder if you’re the actual mentally ill one here.
we all care when it’s people on the epstein list, as we rightfully should! liberals have to problems calling trump voters pedophile sympathizers, i see it all the damn time. but god fucking forbid you bring this up and the fact that no real, impactful consequences were ever actually felt by the church. god forbid you say catholics were complicit in this at worst and don’t know enough to give a shit at best, like we do with trump voters.
okay well the same is true for caths. even though all that happened and is obviously a symptom of the religion, they still go. to do that, they either have to be deluded into thinking the church doesn’t create that atmosphere and is till good, which it factually does based on mountains of evidence, or they simply don’t care.
Nah Id argue that positions of power are attractive to monsters like those priest in the church that did that and those that covered it up many catholics Ik want there to be accountibility its not the faith its power and acting like its a system of the faith is discrimination
and there’s obviously something particularly attractive about catholicism to monsters. it’s because the members are far too forgiving and the leadership will do anything to protect their image, even if it means ruining 270,000 children’s lives (in france alone, i must reiterate…) how do you think they survived the scandal to begin with? forgiveness from their hopelessly brainwashed members.
yeah? maybe not as cuss-wordy because i don’t cuss as much in real life, but i will tell them they went way too easy on the pedos and it’s not going to happen again until they do something about it for real this time or simply leave, so there’s no outlets for these priests to continue their careers and abuse.
i haven’t talk to one in a while face to face tbf, i will admit that. i’m 24 now and a year out of college and the last time i debated a cath i was a sophomore, so i was like 20 or so. still told them the same shit i’ve always said about caths, at least since the scandal. they went too easy on them and it’s pretty telling about the entire religion’s character just how easy they went on them.