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  • DistroMan 20:00 on September 24, 2011 Permalink
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    To have or not to have a future, religion is the problem! 

    There has been ongoing rhetoric from all levels of the Roman Catholic priesthood from the Pope on down over the last few years about how they are no worse than secular society.  They have said that there is just as much pedophilia outside the church as there is inside.  Well, for once I’m not going to argue with that point.  I’ll allow it to slide by in the interests of taking the argument one step further.

    What I’d like ask them is whether that argument applies to other areas in which they fall miserably short.  I know there are pedophiles, misogynists, bullies, homophobes, bigots, murderers, thieves, pimps, torturers, slavers etc. out there in society.  We hear about them nearly everyday, but what is most telling is that there are all these types within the Catholic Church itself.  How can this be true you ask?  How is easy.  Read your bible.  It allows for it.  No, it not only allows for it, it demands it.  It is as if they have gathered together the worst parts of humanity and called them ‘brother’.  This is a church of criminals of the worst kind.  Most people only hear about one or two reports and shake their heads as if it is just some kind of anomaly.  It beggars belief that so many outside the church fall for their line of being the moral compass for society when they continue to commit these crimes year after year and use excuses no ordinary person would ever dream of using in a court of law.  Catholics refuse to pull their heads out of their collective arses and see the church for what it is.

    No, I am not saying it is another mafia, or a guild of thieves, or a rape gang.  I’m saying it is all of these and more.  They have murdered, tortured, raped and thieved their way throughout history.  The megalomania is rife within this institution.  Power and wealth is what it is all about.  They want to own everything and have power over us all. Every single one of us.  When you give even the most cursory of glances over their blood soaked history you can see the evidence for yourself.

    As soon as Christianity became legal in the Roman Empire by imperial edict (315), more and more pagan temples were destroyed by Christians and pagan priests were killed. Between 315 and 6th century thousands of pagan believers were slain. Christian priests such as Mark of Arethusa or Cyril of Heliopolis were famous as “temple destroyers.”  Pagan services became punishable by death in 356.  Christian Emperor Theodosius (408-450) even had children executed, because they had been playing with remains of pagan statues.  For more read Crimes committed since the advent of the religion of peace!  It goes on and on.

    They have only been kept in check by secular society evolving out of the middle ages and taking some kind of control.  The problem is that the label ‘religion’ still carries with it some kind of inviolable immunity.  We still allow them to use the most feeble of excuses to commit some of the most horrendous of crimes.  Oh sure, we convict and jail some of them, but only after the church has recruited, trained and supported them for decades.  We cannot continue in this vein hoping that it will all go away and they will become what they purport to be.  They never were.  They aren’t and they never will be.  Why?  Because that is not what they want to be.  It never was.

    Just take a quick look at what christianity has done for Africa lately.  They are killing homosexuals.  They are accusing children of being witches and burning them to death.  Adults are being hacked to death because they don’t belong to a local church.  You think it only happened in the Middle Ages?  It’s happening now.  This very minute.

    Read a bible and see what Christianity was like two thousand years ago.  Read the link I gave you above for a short list of what has been happening up until recently.  Think back over what you know about recent history regarding the Church.  Actually think about it.  Then, just for the hell of it, ask yourself how many times during that long reign of terror, people said to themselves ‘Oh, but it is only an anomaly, it will go away!’  Has it?  No. It hasn’t and it never will if people keep thinking in this manner.

    It is about time the world at large woke up and smelled the putrefying undead corpse that is the Roman Catholic Church.  Getting at the priests one at a time will only ever allow them to continue the way they are now by ignoring us and our needs.  To stop this we need to behead the beast. And while I poke my stick at the Catholic Church, this applies to religion as a whole.  It’s time has past.  Long ago.

    Now the time has come for humanity to grow up, put away childish things and take charge of its future.  Or there might not be one.

     
  • DistroMan 20:00 on June 4, 2010 Permalink
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    P.O.P.E. Pissing Off People Endlessly 

    The Pope’s linking of Islam to violence during a speech in Germany led to outrage in the Muslim world, nearly forcing cancellation of a trip to Turkey in 2006.

    Another controversy arose from his remarks on a trip to Africa that condoms can “make the continent’s AIDS epidemic worse”.

    He  made comments in Brazil that Latin America’s native people “wanted” to become Christian even before Europe’s conquerors arrived.

    Pope Benedict XVI called abortion and same-sex marriage some of the most “insidious and dangerous” threats facing the world today.

    In suffering, you will discover an interior peace and even spiritual joy.

    In Latin America the Pope said, “There is another disquieting trend, authoritarian forms of government and regimes wedded to certain ideologies that we thought had been superseded.” Here the Pope seemed clearly to be referring to leftist governments such as the Venezuelan regime of Hugo Chavez, who has clashed frequently with Church leaders there.

    An Irish government-organized compensation board has paid out more than $983 million to 13,000 people abused in Ireland’s church-run residential institutions for children. Why do the Irish people have to pay when the Vatican has more money than they do and they were the ones doing wrong?

    Archbishop Timothy Dolan, hand picked by Pope to join the Child Sex Abuse Probe in Ireland let a priest sue his accuser in St Louis and fought against reforming Wisconsin child sex abuse law.  Is this the right person to be on the panel?

    Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor is also a Papal choice for the Irish Probe.  It was Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor’s decision in 1985, when he was bishop of Arundel and Brighton, to move Fr Michael Hill to a chaplaincy at Gatwick airport.  Eighteen months previously the cardinal had removed Hill from ministry because of child abuse allegations but then allowed him back to work at the airport where Hill abused a child. Hill was jailed in 2002.   Is this the right person to be on the panel?

    British Taxpayers are to be asked to pay over $24.2 million to help fund the Pope’s visit in September all because ex Prime Minister Gordon Brown wanted the visit to help shore up Labour’s vote among the faithful in Scotland.

    It seems that there is a never-ending onslaught of Papal intervention in the affairs of Sovereign Governments these days.  When the Vatican seems less and less capable of even taking care of it’s own house you would think that they would be better off STFU.  But no, they seem quite willing to carry on laundering money, abusing children, raping nuns, avoiding the law, pimping, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousand by denying their followers the use of condoms, allow mothers to die during childbirth by denying abortion, allowing women to get pregnant too many times and risking their lives by denying the use of condoms and birth control.  All this and more while they put themselves up as the moral arbiters of our actions.

    The furor over child abuse has been growing steadily for around two decades and yet they still sit on their hands and wait for ‘nothing’ to happen.  Popey Joe continues to talk about ‘decisive action’ but none has been taken.  He has only just gotten around to naming a panel of ‘men of the cloth’ to go to Ireland and he couldn’t even get that right.  At least a third of them have questions to answer about their own activities.  How can anyone take them seriously when they themselves haven’t even cleared their own names.  Joe travels around the world spewing forth about the abuse and how it is ‘wrong’ and ‘evil’, but only blames the secular community, homosexuals or lack of faith by Catholics themselves.  One of his Cardinals even went so far as to accuse the children of ‘wanting it’.

    The US government is now involved in helping him avoid trial.  Their Supreme Court is so top heavy with Catholic Judges that they won’t give a verdict themselves on whether the Pope is immune from lawsuit, but have asked the Obama Administration to tell them what they should do.  What use are Judges if they won’t judge?  Of course, if they decide not to follow the Administration’s recommendations, then the Pope could still face trial if he is ever stupid enough to step foot on US soil.  I ‘pray’ that they do and he does.

    JOE AND BUBBA SITTING IN A CELL

     
  • DistroMan 20:00 on May 12, 2010 Permalink
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    Catholic Rap 

    Hello there, my name’s Joe,
    I lay down the line you have to toe.
    I have my army, all dressed in purple,
    Who all believe the lies laid down in Constantinople.

    I’ve got this crew that like little boys,
    They love to cuddle them like fluffy toys.
    But some went too far and got found out,
    So where there’s fact, I have to sow some doubt.

    I can’t let them get into trouble,
    So now my workload has had to double.
    I wrote a letter to the Irish people,
    And I had to say sorry to the Sheeple.

    I’ve been to Malta and I’ve shed a tear,
    Made them all think that hell I fear.
    But what worries me is that the people are leavin,
    I’ll just have to cry more and show them I’m grievin.

    Now I’m off to Portugal to look all prophetic,
    I’ll think up some words to sound all apologetic.
    I might have to sob and groan a little,
    A couple of tears faked with some spittle.

    So all you heathens better believe in me,
    And stop worrying about the boys sitting on my knee.
    Bring all your kids to the church,
    We’ll keep’em in line with a bit of birch.

    All you women, get in the kitchens,
    And stop that listenin to Christopher Hitchens.
    No more Dawkins or PZ,
    From now on it’s just God and me.

    So you should listen and do as I say,
    or you’ll get stoned come Judgement Day.
    Now do as I say and not as I do,
    Cause that’s what it says in my Book of Woo.

     
    • eda1 13:40 on May 12, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Love this Rap. it's funny. you are very good with words… 1st time I read about "Joe the bastard" and I laugh! Brilliant!

  • DistroMan 20:00 on May 11, 2010 Permalink
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    More thoughts and some worry. 

    The Catholic Church owning an insurance company seems a bit wrong doesn’t it?  I can’t put my finger on why I think that, but I do.  Maybe it’s the making money out of other peoples misery that offends me.

    Threatening to stop feeding the poor (supposedly charitable work) because of gay marriage. Heartless to say the least. Thou shalt chuck a tantrum if thou dost not get what thou wants.

    How come Australia’s Catholic Schools, which were intended for the poor, are now nearly exclusively for the rich but still funded by the taxpayer?

    We all know the Catholic Church is rich and owns banks, but did you know that they invest that money in things such as defense, tobacco and birth control pills?

    I don’t know about other countries, but here in Australia there are Catholic Clubs that serve beer, allow smoking and have enormous amounts of poker machines.  Does that sound very Catholic to you?

    How serious do you have to be about something to pay 2 billion dollars for it? That’s about how much ‘boys for the boys’ cost the Catholic Church in the United States.

    Doesn’t this seem a little like religious discrimination to you?  http://www.hireacatholic.com/

    Online Catholic Dating Service?  Might help them keep our heathen genes out of their pool.

    Father Jacques Gaimard, director of a Christian radio station in the northern region of Upper Normandy, was charged in court with sexual assaults on a minor in 1992 and 1993.  Link

    A Catholic diocese in eastern Spain said Tuesday one of its monks is suspected of abusing a child and asked for the family’s forgiveness, the first such abuse charge to become public in Spain.  Link

    Some pedophile priests believe molesting children does not breach their vow of celibacy, a retired Australian Catholic bishop said in a magazine interview.  Link Wow, I never would have picked that.  Much.

    Bishops in countries where the scandal has passed for the most part seem to be keeping a low profile, but as there are so many bishops resigning in Europe over the same things, maybe our Bishops should be given a second look.

    Catholic Diocese of El Paso faces more allegations of sex abuse

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    And I get asked why I keep bringing it up over and over and over?

    Well, I do it because it just isn’t going away.  I do it because the kids are still being hurt.  I do it so that you who complain might one day understand that by hoping it dies down you are allowing them to think it’s ok because people don’t care.  I do it because it’s the right thing.   I do it because the children don’t want to be hurt.   I do it in the hope that the children being hurt right now can get some relief from the suffering and in the hope that no more children will have to live the horror visited upon so many tens of thousands of children in the past couple of decades alone.

    The meaningless apologies and handful of resignations are nothing but a grain of sand upon the beach of child abuse perpetrated by the Catholic Church and it should be doing so much more and doing it transparently.  I am more and more amazed at how they continue to thumb their noses at the world in this manner.  But then I suppose if the outrage dies down, why shouldn’t they?

    It seems the line of ‘that has been said so many times, how much longer are you going to carry on about it‘ is starting to have it’s intended effect.

    How much we care about the children should not be connected to a timer.  There is no time limit to outrage.  A crime is still a crime even if you have to keep hearing about it for decades.  If we stop they keep going.  If we keep going, they might stop eventually.

    PLEASE DON’T STOP, THE CHILDREN NEED YOU

     
  • DistroMan 20:00 on May 6, 2010 Permalink
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    Hit me with your rhythm stick, hit me, hit me. 

    Well not quite, but close.  I have just finished reading a story about Pope John Paul II in which they verify that he used to flagellate himself with a special belt he used to have hung in his closet and transported to Castel Gandolfo whenever he would make the trip.

    From Wikipedia: Flagellation or flogging is the act of methodically beating or whipping (Latin flagellum, “whip”) the human body. Specialised implements for it include rods, switches, the cat o’ nine tails and the sjambok. Typically, flogging is imposed on an unwilling subject as a punishment; however, it can also be submitted to willingly, or performed on oneself, in religious or sadomasochistic contexts.

    I’d never thought of him as the type that would go this far, but is just shows that you never can tell.  What it does show is just how bent and twisted you can get when you shut off part of your brain and go without sex.

    Rev. Michael Barrett, a priest of the Catholic Opus Dei sect said, “In actual Catholic self-flagellation, there is no blood, no injury, nothing to harm a person’s health, nothing traumatic. If it caused any harm, the Church would not allow it.”

    So anything that causes harm to them is outlawed, but harm to others is ok?  That seems to line up pretty good with everything else we know about them.

    SORRY IF THIS IS RATHER SHORT

    BUT I’VE BEEN DISTRACTED TODAY AFTER FACEBOOK

    DISABLED MY ACCOUNT

    GRRRRRRR!!

     
    • eda1 13:07 on May 6, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Hi there! so they disabled your account…Assholes!
      I you need to get a new account asap, as I don't like to go to FB and not seeing your posts!
      Names: Man Distro, DM, MD, whatever just get a new name…

    • eda1 13:07 on May 6, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Hi there! so they disabled your account…Assholes!
      I you need to get a new account asap, as I don't like to go to FB and not seeing your posts!
      Names: Man Distro, DM, MD, whatever just get a new name…

  • DistroMan 20:00 on May 5, 2010 Permalink
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    The Pope knows where his priorities lay. Freaking Moron. 

    I honestly thought I was looking at The Onion when I saw the news, but it turns out I wasn’t.  This is really true.

    The Holy Roman Catholic Church has problems in the areas of:

    1. Thieving Priests
    2. Boy Child Raping Priests
    3. Girl Child Raping Priests
    4. Nun Raping Priests
    5. Homosexual Priests (which is only a problem to them)
    6. Priests that are speaking their own minds (good on them)
    7. The Devil living in the Vatican
    8. Hiding known pedophiles
    9. Transferring known pedophiles
    10. Solicitation of  male prostitutes

    But they, in their infinite wisdom target a completely different area.  It must be something earth shattering to take their attention off some of these horrendous items.  At least you’d think so.

    So what am I leading up to? Ok, hold on to your seats because this is going to blow you away.

    They are investigating 3 orders of Nuns from Washington for such things as feminism and activism. SHOCK HORROR!  Oh, the humanity.  How will they ever get past this?  It would be the end of civilisation as we know it if they let this continue.

    The Archdiocese of Seattle says the Adrian Dominicans in Woodway, the Renton Sisters of Providence and the Tacoma Dominicans are on the list.

    The Nuns are probably the one area of Catholicism that hasn’t come under fire lately and it seems very suspicious that the Vatican would target them at this time.  As usual the misogyny of the Priests as showing as they try to shift the focus away from themselves.  It doesn’t seem to matter what the boys do, as long as the girls submit to their authority.

    How in the name of all that they think is holy can they just ignore all that has been going on and waste time on something as trivial as a few Nuns who just might have a mind of their own?  With all that has happened over the past few years this is the best you guys can come up with?  Get over yourselves.  All you are managing to accomplish is to make yourselves look like a bunch of misogynistic bully boys.  Yeah, well, I know it’s hard not to look like what you are, but now you’re just being overly obvious about it.

    The problem is that the Nuns are more open to change, more knowledgeable of society’s problems and as they are more often on the front lines of the problems that the world faces, are in a much better position to know what is needed and it is making the Priests look bloody useless and they don’t like it one bit.  So of course they have to bring those sassy bitches back into line.  They can’t have them going off and fixing things left, right and centre as if they are the ones who have the authority.  The Nuns are the ones who do the hard work, put their lives on the line more than the priests when it comes to missionary work and working in remote villages and hospitals.  They are the ones who should be running the show.  I’d be pretty safe in saying that the Nuns probably have more of the publics respect than the Priests.

    GIRLS, STAND UP FOR YOURSELVES AND TELL THEM TO BACK OFF

     
  • DistroMan 20:00 on May 3, 2010 Permalink
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    Can you pick which Priest has done the Kiddie Fiddle? 

    I doubt it.

    The Vatican has not only allowed, but helped Diocese all over the world to shuffle these criminals around to keep them hidden.  Sometimes within their own State or Country.  Sometimes they even send them overseas to countries they really don’t care about.  We know that Australia, Canada and Alaska both became dumping grounds for errant Priests from other countries.  India has seen it’s fair share of Child Rapists sent to it’s shores as well.  Although there is a lot about India that I don’t like, e.g. it’s caste system that is still in force in some parts of the country, there is also a lot I do like.  What they do not deserve is to have these known pedophiles dumped on them as if it doesn’t matter.  It is children that have to bear the brunt of this activity and I can’t get my head around how a grown man can knowingly make a decision that will almost definitely end in more children being abused.

    There comes a point when someone, in this case the countries that are having their laws and their children abused by the Catholic Church, have to take a stand.  All countries now need to draft a new law that stops Priests from entering their country for any reason unless they have a completely clean record.  There needs to be much stricter oversight of what is going on.  No more should a Priest who has abused/raped child be allowed to roam around freely to commit the same acts to more and more children wherever the Church thinks it’s alright.  This, of course, can’t be done until the home country convicts them.  This can’t be done either till someone in that country says enough is enough and does convict them.  This is very hard to do while  ever the Church is allowed to continue hiding them instead of reporting abuse cases to the local authorities and keeps out of it and allows things to progress normally.  No more of the Church having their own people stick their noses in and tell the victims they don’t enough evidence and that they would be better of accepting $10,000 to keep quiet.  The Church would rather spend that money than allow itself to be smeared in the courts and media.  But in many cases this probably was not true and the families of those victims felt pressured to accept the offer.  That then allows the Priest to keep his collar, his freedom, his ability to continue abusing and his ability to move to another area, state or country.

    When will these countries have enough guts to stand up to the Vatican and look after their citizens?  Probably never.

    They could start by ordering the Church to hand over any and all records relating to any and all illegal activity on the part of their Priests.

    When will the Vatican do the right thing?  Probably never.

    They could start by sending Cardinal Bernard Law back to the US so the could face his accusers.

    When will the people do the right thing? Probably never.

    Every single Catholic has influence.  Those who have influence can help save the children.  Those who have influence and don’t use it to save the children are abuse enablers for allowing it to continue.  The Priests, Bishops and Cardinals that have power that they don’t need to get permission from the Vatican to use and aren’t using it to do anything are abuse enablers.  Those who not only have that influence but are politicians are doubly guilty of abuse enabling if they haven’t used that influence to stop the problem.  Those leaders of countries who have not stood before the media and loudly proclaimed their disgust and determination to end the abuse are the worst of the abuse enablers.

    The Vatican are playing the same game they always play and are talking all around the problem.  It’s nothing but smoke obscured magical handwaving.  All noise and no action.  By the time they get around to the point of anything being done, it will all have been forgotten and they’ll do the same.  Wait a decade or maybe even less and the reports of abuse will start again.

    Because the governments aren’t forcing them to do anything, they aren’t.  Because we aren’t forcing our governments to do something, they aren’t.  We need to stop leaving it to them to ‘get around to’.  Whatever your next election is, be it local, state or federal, you need to start asking the candidates what their views and intentions are on this problem.  We must start making this an election breaker for them.

    WHAT IS YOUR STAND ON CHILD ABUSE BY CATHOLIC PRIESTS?

     
  • DistroMan 20:00 on May 2, 2010 Permalink
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    Stop treating the Church differently to everybody else!!! 

    Once again the Church is being treated differently to the ordinary citizen here in Australia.  If Joe Normal was accused of pedophilia, he’d be arrested, charged and investigations would continue.  Priests however are allowed to roam free to commit further atrocities.  In Victoria there have been over 300 cases of abuse with approx 100 Priests being accused, yet only 1 has been defrocked.

    If the Church itself can substantiate these cases, why aren’t they defrocking the perpetrators?  Why aren’t they handing them over to the Police?  Doesn’t this make them complicit in the crimes?  They tell us that others have lost their right to perform mass, but how is that commensurate with the crime involved?  They really do not see pedophilia as being a crime worth doing anything about.

    Child rape by Priests has been going on for longer than condoms have been around yet they scream in defiance and disgust about condoms from the pulpit week in and week out.  Why are we not hearing about Child Rape in the same manner?  Because it is a way of life for many and the Vatican have them all cowed like meek little lambs.  Most are afraid to speak out in case they come under fire themselves from their bosses or parishioners.  As the word/law about condoms comes down from the Pope himself they must preach about it.  Having read the documents from the Vatican regarding Child Rape and how to keep it quiet they are only following orders from their bosses.  But, you and I don’t have that excuse.  If our boss tells us to do something illegal and we do as we are told, that ‘following orders’ is NOT taken as a defence.  So why are we allowing untold Priests of all ranks to get away with this?  How many ears must the story be told to on the journey from Offending Priest to Pope?  If that Priest was not given up to the authorities, then all those ears are complicit in the crime and should all face justice.

    This is not up for debate.  They are not immune from our laws.  It is time the people started to feel like they matter in this country and are not just fodder for the governments and the religions to play with as they choose.  Every Sodomite Priest should be thrown in jail and any Politician that turns a blind eye on the problem for fear of losing the religious vote should be tossed out of office on their corrupt arses.  I say that about the politicians because anyone who ignores these kinds of crimes when they are in office to protect us and run the country in an ethical and moral manner doesn’t deserve that position.  They are corrupt.  If they had been found to have kept quiet about other crimes they would face court.  Why not in this instance.  Just because they don’t know of particular crimes is no defence.  They know that a lot have happened and little to nothing is being done about it.  How can that stand be defended?

    I wonder how many religious votes covering up for a Pervert Priest buys these days?

    Give the Police the powers they need to investigate and prosecute these bastards.  Don’t muck around waiting for each State Government to do something.  The Federal Police should be given authority over these cases and the power to go clean up the mess now.

    How many MP’s and Senators will sit in Parliament this week and never mention this outrage?

    SHAME ON YOU ALL IF YOU KEEP QUIET

     
  • DistroMan 20:00 on April 30, 2010 Permalink
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    A Church in Crisis 

    “The church realizes that it doesn’t have a way out, at least not until it confronts the entirety of its problems,” said Alberto Melloni, the director of the liberal Catholic John XXIII Foundation for Religious Science in Bologna, Italy.

    This is more than just a throwaway line by some priest looking for his own 15 minutes of fame during the mess that the Catholic Church has managed to create for itself.  After all their attempts to deflect criticism against themselves for this mess, it still hangs over them like a dark cloud that just won’t let the sun shine on the Vatican.

    A Cloud  Hangs Over The Vatican And Won't Go Away

    A Cloud Hangs Over The Vatican And Won’t Go Away

    Just in the last week 3 more Priests have resigned and you can bet there will be more to come.  There seems to have been a process started here that will not stop until a full and open accounting has taken place.  If the Vatican chooses the wrong path now, the Church will never recover.  This cloud will hang over them forever and nobody will be able to look at a priest without wondering.  Even the innocent, as far as any priest can be innocent if he hasn’t spoken out and challenged the Pope’s direction in this matter, will be looked at with open suspicion.  There is already a dramatic decrease in the numbers of young men entering the priesthood.  This scandal can only make these already weakening figures, drop further and faster.

    Actually, I don’t believe that the Church will ever recover fully. I think that it will continue to decline forever until it becomes nothing more than an historical curiosity, but that needn’t happen as fast as it otherwise might if they choose wisely.  There are far more good and decent people who are followers of the Church that don’t deserve to see this happen in this manner.

    What I do think needs to happen is for the Pope to come clean about his whole history and the history of this Child Abuse scandal.  It ALL needs to be brought out into the light of day so that those who should be convicted are, those who deserve help get it, the church can be freed from this cloud and then go through an enlightenment of its own.

    As I said earlier, I do not believe the Church will go on forever, it is way past that, but it should be allowed to die a dignified death.  While doing that there should be ongoing oversight to make sure this doesn’t ever happen again.  Those who do not believe the Church needs to mend it’s way,  doom it to oblivion with a worse reputation than is necessary.  The bottom line here is that I think the Church should be relegated to history in a manner that does not reflect badly on society itself.  There is no need to become the bad guy here and cause more damage than we can help.  There is much to be learnt from the history of the Church, including the artwork, music and literature that have come out of it and because of it.  None of that should be lost.

    KEEP THE GOOD, LEARN FROM THE BAD, MOVE ON

     
  • DistroMan 20:00 on April 26, 2010 Permalink
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    Priests: Ooooh Girls! Nom Nom Nom. 

    A lot of people, including myself have referred to Priests as ‘Boy Buggerers’.  Most of the time though, I have chosen to use the term ‘Kiddie Fiddlers’. I did this because I have always thought the day would come that the girls would speak out and tell their stories of abuse at the hands of the Priests. I thought this, because I’ve never believed as the Catholic Church would have you believe, that the child abuse is because of Homosexuality. I believed then as I believe now, that the main reason is a mixture of pedophilia and the idiotic Celibacy rule they have in place.

    So, as I said previously, there are now a few women coming out and telling their stories.  Why now?  This is due to the fact that back in the early 70′s the Catholic Church changed it’s rules on allowing female altar servers.

    Researchers say disclosure of abuse is typically delayed for about 30 years, which means women assaulted as children are just starting to come to terms with what happened.

    It is now coming to light that girls are far more likely to be victims of Priestly assault if they are available.  As they have been now for 40 years, I highly suspect that the numbers of women taking action against the church will climb slowly until it reaches a critical mass and then it will explode.

    Oh, a little explanation of how the cake is being sliced might help here.  The fact is that the majority of Priests are heterosexual.  But, as they didn’t have girls to prey on as readily as the minority of homosexual Priests had boys, not much was happening with them.  So we’ve mainly heard about the  homosexual boy buggering Priests.  Once girls were placed on the Catholic Altar of Love, it gave the majority, the heterosexual Priests something to go after.  Now think about that.  If we have had such a problem with abuse to boys, how bad is it going to be now that the majority of Priests have their own toys to play with?  Admittedly, there aren’t as many girls taking on the job of serving at the altar, but there are more Priests with an eye for them.  This could and most probably will be a big problem in coming years for the Church.

    We must ask though, why is this only coming out now?  It is not only because the women weren’t ready to speak up earlier.  We’ve been hearing all kind of reports of abuse of boys now for decades until it exploded this year, so shy in all this time during all these reports and all the investigations has there been no word of the girls and their victimisation by the priesthood?  The Priests have had their chance to speak up.  The Vatican will have known of many cases that they’ve had to hush up and yet they’ve been quiet as well.  If they had have come clean about this situation at the same time they might have had a chance to weather the storm.  Keeping quiet and trying yet again to cover it up  will only end in disaster.

    IF the girls leave it too long though, the church will just go through the motions as they are doing now.  IF the girls all come out now, the storm will grow to a point the Catholic Church will not be able to just ‘sigh’ and look away calling us ‘petty gossips’.  So girls, I implore you to speak out now.  Give them all you have.  Do not let up and allow them to become complacent all over again till they can ignore you.  This also goes for any men out there that have not yet spoken up.  Do so NOW!

    Many, many victims have said that if the Vatican, the Priests or Parents of earlier victims had have spoken out, they would not have been abused.  They must be forced to face the law now or they will continue to abuse.  Think of your children, your grandchildren and all the families to come who do not deserve to be ripped apart by this monster we call the Holy Roman Catholic Church.

    FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE


    More reading: Girls Abused

     
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