Originally posted by bbarr Again, the issue isn't marriage. The issue is allowing priests an outlet for healthy sexual expression, rather than taking something as fundamental to our biological nature as our sexuality and repressing it. I placed this point within the context of marriage because I'm sure you folk wouldn't want priests having any sort of sex outside of marriage.
Again, if that were true, shouldn't it turn up as a difference of minor abuse rates? After all, aren't a far greater number of married men sexually active than celibate priests?
The facts simply do not support your argument - as reasonable as it might be.
Originally posted by DoctorScribbles Have the Pope start burning child molesting priests at the stake. The Church has certainly applied that punishment for lesser crimes.
What are you implying? That the Church traditionally advocated punitive practices which we Westerners now consider brutal??
It would be a good and enlightening quest not to compare today's views to the past's views, but the past's secular, wordly views to the past's religious, ecclesiastical views.
Originally posted by ivanhoe It would be a good and enlightening quest not to compare today's views to the past's views, but the past's secular, wordly views to the past's religious, ecclesiastical views.
Originally posted by ivanhoe It would be a good and enlightening quest not to compare today's views to the past's views, but the past's secular, wordly views to the past's religious, ecclesiastical views.
Originally posted by ivanhoe It would be a good and enlightening quest not to compare today's views to the past's views, but the past's secular, wordly views to the past's religious, ecclesiastical views.
"One of the most enduring myths of the Inquisition is that it was a tool of oppression imposed on unwilling Europeans by a power-hungry Church. Nothing could be more wrong. In truth, the Inquisition brought order, justice, and compassion to combat rampant secular and popular persecutions of heretics."
"Twice-told tales
The rhetoric surrounding the Catholic Church’s current priest sex-abuse scandal owes much to the 19th century’s sensational anti-Catholic propaganda"
Originally posted by Bosse de Nage "Twice-told tales
The rhetoric surrounding the Catholic Church’s current priest sex-abuse scandal owes much to the 19th century’s sensational anti-Catholic propaganda"
Originally posted by DoctorScribbles "One of the most enduring myths of the Inquisition is that it was a tool of oppression imposed on unwilling Europeans by a power-hungry Church. Nothing could be more wrong. In truth, the Inquisition brought order, justice, and compassion to combat rampant secular and popular persecutions of heretics."
Come on, Ivanhoe. This is crap.
Ivanhoe, how can you in good conscience even link to a site with this
quotation?
Originally posted by DoctorScribbles "One of the most enduring myths of the Inquisition is that it was a tool of oppression imposed on unwilling Europeans by a power-hungry Church. Nothing could be more wrong. In truth, the Inquisition brought order, justice, and compassion to combat rampant secular and popular persecutions of heretics."
Come on, Ivanhoe. This is crap.
Is it ? If you put it in the articles's context the quote becomes quite clear.
Catholicism and the Intrinsically Disordered
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