The paradox of pedophilia in the Catholic Church is that Catholics think they only have the morality they use to condemn pedophilia because they are Catholics. Catholics actually "believe" they are more moral, in other words, simply because they are Catholics.
But this is to assume, of course, that it may never have occurred to a single person on the planet that there was anything wrong with priests raping children, were it not for the Catholic Church's willingness to not only teach us such moral lessons, but provide us with the Eucharistic medicine needed to ward agaisnt such desires in the first place. It is to assume, in other words, that without the Catholic Church, the pedophile priest problem would be exponentially worse than it was, thank God!
That their "Eucharist" clearly did nothing to prevent those Catholic priests from raping those children should never be considered evidence that such moral medicine is purely a placebo, however. On the contrary! Without the Catholic Church, such men would only be lurking about in society undetected!
In fact, for the devout Catholic, their own pedophile priests is only ever proof, not that their religion is simply a moral ruse, but that homosexuality is an abomination, even though many of those pedophile priests were not homosexual. And rather than feel the need to apologize for those crimes, their Pope has recently decided to follow in the footsteps of God and refuse to apologize for anything! Amen indeed!
Such is the power of "faith," as it were, that it sees only what it wants to see, and exercises its "faith" by denying everything that points to the contrary.
But this is to assume, of course, that it may never have occurred to a single person on the planet that there was anything wrong with priests raping children, were it not for the Catholic Church's willingness to not only teach us such moral lessons, but provide us with the Eucharistic medicine needed to ward agaisnt such desires in the first place. It is to assume, in other words, that without the Catholic Church, the pedophile priest problem would be exponentially worse than it was, thank God!
That their "Eucharist" clearly did nothing to prevent those Catholic priests from raping those children should never be considered evidence that such moral medicine is purely a placebo, however. On the contrary! Without the Catholic Church, such men would only be lurking about in society undetected!
In fact, for the devout Catholic, their own pedophile priests is only ever proof, not that their religion is simply a moral ruse, but that homosexuality is an abomination, even though many of those pedophile priests were not homosexual. And rather than feel the need to apologize for those crimes, their Pope has recently decided to follow in the footsteps of God and refuse to apologize for anything! Amen indeed!
Such is the power of "faith," as it were, that it sees only what it wants to see, and exercises its "faith" by denying everything that points to the contrary.
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