cybercoma Posted July 16, 2007 Report Posted July 16, 2007 (edited) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6899391.stm More than 500 people allegedly abused by Los Angeles Catholic priests are to receive a record-breaking compensation pay-out, their main lawyer says. Everyone has heard the stories of the abuse that has gone on by priests in the Catholic Church; however, was anyone aware that it was to the tune of $2,000,000,000 paid since 1950 in the United States alone? Edited July 16, 2007 by cybercoma Quote
geoffrey Posted July 16, 2007 Report Posted July 16, 2007 Funny that when it's teacher instead of priests, people don't seem to condemn public education. Quote RealRisk.ca - (Latest Post: Prosecutors have no "Skin in the Game") --
Mad_Michael Posted July 16, 2007 Report Posted July 16, 2007 (edited) Funny that when it's teacher instead of priests, people don't seem to condemn public education. Good point. But hey, parents outnumber priests and teachers as sexual abusers of children added together and then some. Ban the family! Parents are evil! Edited July 16, 2007 by Mad_Michael Quote
cybercoma Posted July 16, 2007 Author Report Posted July 16, 2007 Funny that when it's teacher instead of priests, people don't seem to condemn public education.When a teacher molests a child they don't get transferred to another school and their files hidden away. Anyone molesting children is a terrible thing, but it reeks of irony when it's done by someone who supposed to be a moral authority acting on behalf of God himself. Quote
cybercoma Posted July 16, 2007 Author Report Posted July 16, 2007 Good point.But hey, parents outnumber priests and teachers as sexual abusers of children added together and then some. Ban the family! Parents are evil! Ban the family? You're making a bit of a leap, aren't you? I never said to ban religion. All this does is show that priests, who act on behalf of God, are not anymore moral than anyone else. Religion shouldn't be banned, but these priests should be charged and, if found guilty, locked away and put on the sex offenders list. Quote
Mad_Michael Posted July 16, 2007 Report Posted July 16, 2007 Good point.But hey, parents outnumber priests and teachers as sexual abusers of children added together and then some. Ban the family! Parents are evil! Ban the family? You're making a bit of a leap, aren't you? I never said to ban religion. All this does is show that priests, who act on behalf of God, are not anymore moral than anyone else. Religion shouldn't be banned, but these priests should be charged and, if found guilty, locked away and put on the sex offenders list. I was 'riffing' on Geoffrey's general comment about how people (in other threads, not you) will take the evidence of priests sexually abusing children as an argument as to how religion is evil. Geoffrey (quite rightly) pointed out the duplicity of the argument when teachers are caught doing the same. And I pointed out to the even more hypocritical point that parents are the single greatest danger of sexually abusing children - therefore, by the same silly reasoning, families ought to be banned. You apparently missed the point. Quote
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