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In reply to the discussion: This is hard... [View all]Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)If you discover your babysitter is abusing your kids, saying you are bothered by this while you write a check for the next month's service really doesn't get it, and no one would accept the "I said I was bothered" excuse when you offered it.
The reality is this: The Church has never come clean about any of this, and the horrors continue to be discovered -- each more despicable than the last. Not only are they not coming clean, the Church is still defending it. And I am not just talking about the wholesale child rape that was going on here in America.
Their members don't want to know. They don't want to hear about it, they don't want people talking about it, they accept the lies of admitted criminals and close their eyes when presented with reality. They were and are offering blanket forgiveness -- and they don't know or care what or how many crimes they are actually forgiving.
Are you aware that up until 1996 the Catholic church kept as many as 30,000 women as SLAVES in Ireland alone? Not 1796.. 1996! Slaves, and it wasn't just Ireland. Are you aware that while they generally were just raping children here in America, elsewhere they engaing in the wholesale physical torture of children? I am talking here about tens of thousand of children brutalized and often killed. They were castrated, given electro shock, flogged with bullwhips, they had their legs plunged into boiling water, they were tortured with red hot pokers, they were used as forced labor, they were sexually assaulted... the most disgusting twisted perversions imaginable were going on all across the world.
I could go on posting this stuff all day, but the people who SHOULD care the most clearly do not. But those of us who do care aren't going to pretend none of this is happening just to spare the feelings of the Church supporters.
http://americablog.com/2013/02/magdalen-laundries-catholic-ireland-irish-apology.html
http://www.vaticancrimes.us/2012/07/catholic-church-scandal-torture-orphans.html
http://www.freedommag.org/english/press/page07.htm
http://vorige.nrc.nl/international/article2530647.ece/Catholic_nuns_also_abused_children
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/116007.stm