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There is no God. Religion is about control and money
Slideshows????? What?
My man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????
Clippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well? >

Well I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity. >

Turing complete, no less! >

But can it run Doom? >

Anything can run doom >

But can Doom run Doom? >

Doom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs. >

People don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom. >

Gonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it >

Check out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: "The Keepers" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.
Lapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way. >

There was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. 
I honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.
But with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian. >

Because saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. 
Any organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. 
You know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them. >

Nude pix on the church printer . . .  I can imagine the scene.
Sister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?
Former Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere. >

That's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker >

If Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference. >

WAIT when did they get rid of the free awards >

guess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul >

And yet where are all the "anti-groomers" protesting these churches? >

It’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people >

At this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets. >

Glad I'm not the only one thinking this is a big conspiracy. If there's no unwanted children then what's the point in joining the clergy? >

After the Southern Baptist sexual abuse report came out last summer I've become convinced that organized religion is deliberately made to be a front to facilitate abuse of the vulnerable. >

I really do think a lot of preachers are just charismatic guys who know they can con people. It's relatively easy work for a bullshitter. Watched my uncle do it for years.
There are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass. >

I could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.
When it comes to the bigger ones though, like the Catholics and the Southern Baptists, I totally think its largely just a big organized front. The fact that they're so reluctant to reform their ways and do the obvious right thing (immediately handing over their abusive clergymen to the authorities) just strengthens my belief. >

*making another streak to the tally list wall
*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks >

Man I gotta say though. If you have an image collection of porn you really like to flip through. A PowerPoint is a damn fine idea. Not only can you auto scroll but add sweet ass flipping transitions.
That said. This man should burn for this >

Priest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented >

Correction! PedoPreist >

New name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos. >

I'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.
The problem isn't how many of them there are after all; it's that they aren't being turned in when they get caught. Just shuffled around.
Way, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up... >

Then that would mean that... Gasp
South Park was right all along....
Sneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice.... >

Wish I was surprised >

You make slideshows of images?  
Edit: 
Oh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out >

Holy hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia. >

Not just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.
After Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming
Don't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't. >


none of them are immune to the depravity.

Almost implied, really. >

Could someone explain this to me: How come so many priests are predators? Is it that people inclined to be priests have a tendency to be so, or is it that predators choose to become priests to try and get away with this shit? >

A variety of factors:

Unquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities
Support from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes
Strictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them
Easy regular access to many children
Easy ability to get alone time with children
Priests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church
Victims of sexual abuse have commonly been blamed and shamed in many christian cultures for "tempting" the rapist/perpetrator, discouraging any victims from speaking out — especially when the perpetrator has far more institutional power and social status than the victim
Children are least likely to know what a priest is doing to them or tell other people about it, especially if the trusted church authority tells them not to share
The christian belief system teaches you that your body does not belong to you but to their god, and that there is nothing wrong with forcing children to do or attend activities the children dislike
The church and its belief system adamantly oppose teaching children about what sex is and what sexual body parts are called, leaving children without the language to identify and tell others e.g. where Father Bill touched them — or why it was inappropriate

That's why in France, for example, Catholic priests sexually assaulted over 216,000 kids, and French “children were more likely to be [sexually] abused within the Catholic Church than in public schools or summer camps – or any setting other than family.”
P.S. Want to know the worst part? Child sex abuse is not limited to the Catholic church. The Mormon/LDS church and Southern Baptist Convention were recently exposed covering up pedophile pastors’ child sex abuse.
Want to protect your kids from an unaccountable institution that covers up child sex abuse and silences conversations about it? Then keep your kids out of church.
Edit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:

“scientific literature over decades shows that comprehensive sex education starting around kindergarten actually prevents children from being sexually abused and groomed because it teaches children the correct words for their body parts and also teaches them concepts of privacy, personal space, bodily autonomy, the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching, and the fact that sex is something that only adults do.
children with this knowledge are not only better equipped to identify abuse and predatory behavior and communicate that its happening to a trusted adult, but also prevent it from happening in the first place by recognizing when something is happening that shouldn’t.” >

So this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.
Years back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing. >

5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison. >

5 years and a ticket to heaven >

Heaven? For him? >

That's how this religion works. You sin, you say sorry, and you made it. Plus, before I became an atheist, my pastor said something like there's nothing you can do to lose your salvation once you accepted Christ. So yeah, he's good. Some of you might see him up there. He might be too busy chasing the little cherubs, tho. >

Don't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them? >

I would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too. >

yes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one >

Yes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry. >

Yeah but......... 
I'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them. >

For all the screeching and whining done by republicans over groomers and pedos, they sure do have a massive [and selective] blind spot to the church and the clergy. >

One of the defining features of conservatism is essentialism. They essentialize everyone into "good people" and "bad people". "Good people" who do a bad thing "made a mistake" but are still fundamentally good. "Bad people" who do a bad thing are just showing how bad they really were all along. "Good people" get the benefit of the doubt and extenuating circumstances. "Bad people" deserve the book thrown at them and to rot in hell. >

Once I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense. >

5 holly maries and transfer
after it was realized there was a childcare center near Saint Mary's, the Congregation relocated the priest to Vianney Renewal Center in Dittmer, Missouri, on Jan. 2 this year.
Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province, said in a statement on Tuesday that the circumstances are "very saddening," but that "we respect the judge's decision and have cooperated with law enforcement throughout the process."
McDevitt asked the presiding judge for "mercy for Jim," and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.
"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]," he wrote in a letter to the judge dated Dec. 21. "If he is allowed to remain at VRC, I will see to it that he is never transferred from the facility, unless his health deteriorates and hospitalization is needed. His care/residency will be paid for by my congregation."
"What Jim has done is wrong and criminal," he said. "After Jim was moved to Perryville, he started engaging in prayer, he eats meals with his confreres, and he is an active participant in community life. If only he had been involved like this years before, I truly believe he would not be in the situation that he is in." >

In Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.
Can honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of "Christians" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children. >

With you there.  At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this.  Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few. >

I read this article after just reading about how Missouri lawmakers are trying to pass a law to make women politicians cover up their bare arms.  I trust a woman in a short sleeve shirt, more than I do a priest! >

r/PastorArrested (also includes Priests) >

Don't worry, I'm sure the church will come down hard on him for wasting office supplies. This is a matter the church takes very seriously. Stealing is a sin, after all, or so I've been told. I personally don't go to church because I don't support pedophiles. >

If there is a god, wtf?