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Thread #136372   Message #3568221
Posted By: Jim Carroll
19-Oct-13 - 05:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christian Persecution
Subject: RE: BS: Christian Persecution
Clerical Child abuse is an ongoing saga and will continue to be while the Vatican continues to sit on evidence that might bring some relief to victims.
The Magdalene Laundries have not long hit the fan and will be a cuurent issue while the people who ran them express open contempt for their victims and refuse to a pay a penny in compensation - Industrial Schools fall into the same category
Compensation for all of these incidents are being funded from taxpayers money - which makes us all victims of religious abuse indirectly.
You have yet to attach one modicum of blame to the religious bodies who carrird out these abuses.
Jim Carroll

Even the Spanish Inquisition will remain an issue while the church adopts this attitude.

NOT SORRY AND WILL DO IT AGAIN
Even in the 20th century, Catholic authorities have tried to present the Inquisition in an undeservedly flattering light. Cardinal Lépicier, expressly supported by Pope Pius X, (Pope from 1903-14) declared the church's reign of terror was right, just because the church did it:
"The naked fact that the Church, of her own authority, has tried heretics and condemned them to be delivered to death, shows that she truly has the right of killing ... [W]ho dares to say that the Church has erred in a matter so grave as this?"
In fact, many have dared to say so.
Charles Leland wrote, "When people believe, or make believe, in a thing so very much as to torture like devils and put to death hundreds of thousands of fellow-beings, mostly helpless and poor old women, not to mention many children, it becomes a matter of very serious import to all humanity to determine once for all whether the system or code according to which this was done was absolutely right for ever, or not." Anthropologist Jules Henry said, "Organized religion, which likes to fancy itself the mother of compassion, long ago lost its right to that claim by its organized support of organized cruelty." G.G. Coulton said of the Inquisition, "History affords few plainer examples of the demoralizing effects of absolute power upon fairly ordinary men.