Another Big Big Thread of Religious Discussion

42PETUNIAS · 10-30-2007, 07:48 PM

Yeah, but it doesn't make you answerable to any higher power (no pun intended) that would be able to discourage such behaviour. I mean, I'd understand if you threw a whole bunch of catholic priests who molested kids at me, and said "I'm not catholic because of this" because then yeah, the people who run the catholic church really need to solve that problem, so it would be reasonable as a reason not to be catholic. I just don't understand how someone totally unaffiliated with all the other christian churches being a child molestor makes you not want to be a christian. Also, I have no idea what the statistics are, so I could be wrong, but I'd guess that there aren't actually a stastically important number of priests that molest children, and that for whatever reason, there's a bigger fuss around it than is needed.

10-30-2007, 07:48 PM	#11
42PETUNIAS helloooo! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The Court Posts: 2,816	Yeah, but it doesn't make you answerable to any higher power (no pun intended) that would be able to discourage such behaviour. I mean, I'd understand if you threw a whole bunch of catholic priests who molested kids at me, and said "I'm not catholic because of this" because then yeah, the people who run the catholic church really need to solve that problem, so it would be reasonable as a reason not to be catholic. I just don't understand how someone totally unaffiliated with all the other christian churches being a child molestor makes you not want to be a christian. Also, I have no idea what the statistics are, so I could be wrong, but I'd guess that there aren't actually a stastically important number of priests that molest children, and that for whatever reason, there's a bigger fuss around it than is needed. __________________ noooo! why are you doing that?!