He also named abortion and paedophilia as two of the greatest sins of our times. The archbishop brushed off cases of sexual violence against minors committed by priests as "exaggerations by the mass media aimed at discrediting the Church".
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2% of all the priest of an Archibishopric such as Boston has been fabricated by the Newspapers?. Oh wait, they were only exagerating. Wait, exagerating what?, the degree of pedophilia?. Did they do it, yes or not?. Yes, I think that those guys have a very vivid imagination but, what the hell, they were able to convince the last John Paul II and make him issue an apology and the rest of an otherwise devout congregation.
Cool, let's everybody play that game.
'In a video delivered to Al-Jazeera yesterday, Osama Bin Laden calls the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, "just a bit of fun" adding, "It was not a 9/11, that's a media exaggeration! It was a 3/11... 4/11 tops!"'
'Crowds of well-wishers gathered at the gates of the Corcoran Jail today to cheer the early release of Charles Manson, who last week explained that his crimes had been "a bit of a laugh really" and blaming politically ambitious officials for "blowing the whole thing out of proportion."'
apologist for God, or is it the other side.... ?
PS what is molesting kiddies if NOT paedophilia in action?
Shouldn't be any.
Gotta quit claiming;
Not so much "exaggerations" then a disturbing trend. Most of which the mass media ignores because it's common and now only a regional story
Shouldn't be any.
If you were actually getting rid of the pedophiles instead of just moving them around from congregation to congregation, you might be right, but you're not. In fact, I'd think you're willingly lying on this one.
From the new sins list:
Accumulating excessive wealth
Uh, no. I have yet to see a case where a priest accused of abuse was NOT, in fact, guilty of such crimes.
While it may be true that there are a small number of priests that engage in sexual abuse does not mean it is insignificant, nor that the church can decry paedophilia on one hand and protect the priests guilty of it on the other.
Well, to all accounts, they´re one of the two sins of our times yo´re talking about. And if you´re not discreditting it, I think that somebody is having a problem with consistency.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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