"If I could stop a person from raping a child," Tracie Harris of the Atheist Experience (#795) once quipped, "I would. That's the difference between me and your God."
The Christian will immediately object to this statement, of course, arguing that God cannot intervene because he is bound to respect our free will, regardless of how many child are raped by his priests, or whatever other horrors humanity everywhere inflicts upon itself.
But while Harris's statement is simply dismissed by Christians due to "free will," it certainly does not explain why the Catholic Church only exercised its own "free will" by doing everything in its power to hide and facilitate the abuse.
Worse, however, is that many Catholics see the church's participation in the aiding and abetting of those crimes as in no way impugning its ability speak "infallibly" about any and all issues concerning "faith and morals" - which is a phrase intentionally ambiguous enough to encompass pretty much whatever the Church want's it to encompass.
Of course, it does beg the question of why the Catholic Church chose to exercise its own "free will" by not speaking "infallibly" about the "moral" issue of how it was helping its priests to rape children around the world for decades.
But as Christ used to say so often about such trifles - "Fuck all that noise."
The Christian will immediately object to this statement, of course, arguing that God cannot intervene because he is bound to respect our free will, regardless of how many child are raped by his priests, or whatever other horrors humanity everywhere inflicts upon itself.
But while Harris's statement is simply dismissed by Christians due to "free will," it certainly does not explain why the Catholic Church only exercised its own "free will" by doing everything in its power to hide and facilitate the abuse.
Worse, however, is that many Catholics see the church's participation in the aiding and abetting of those crimes as in no way impugning its ability speak "infallibly" about any and all issues concerning "faith and morals" - which is a phrase intentionally ambiguous enough to encompass pretty much whatever the Church want's it to encompass.
Of course, it does beg the question of why the Catholic Church chose to exercise its own "free will" by not speaking "infallibly" about the "moral" issue of how it was helping its priests to rape children around the world for decades.
But as Christ used to say so often about such trifles - "Fuck all that noise."
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