27 Sep 05
Originally posted by bbarrAgain, 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?
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.
The facts simply do not support your argument - as reasonable as it might be.
02 Oct 05
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Originally posted by DoctorScribblesWhat are you implying? That the Church traditionally advocated punitive practices which we Westerners now consider brutal??
Have the Pope start burning child molesting priests at the stake. The Church has certainly applied that punishment for lesser crimes.
02 Oct 05
Originally posted by ivanhoeWhy is that whenever you post a link to an article, the site I am directed to displays a picture of the Pope?
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.
http://www.crisismagazine.com/october2003/madden.htm
02 Oct 05
Originally posted by ivanhoe"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."
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.
http://www.crisismagazine.com/october2003/madden.htm
Come on, Ivanhoe. This is crap.
02 Oct 05
Originally posted by Bosse de Nageoh boy, they're really laying it on thick, ain't they?
"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"
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/02299171.htm
02 Oct 05
Originally posted by DoctorScribblesIvanhoe, how can you in good conscience even link to a site with this
"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.
quotation?
Nemesio
02 Oct 05
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Originally posted by DoctorScribblesIs it ? If you put it in the articles's context the quote becomes quite clear.
"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.