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Originally Posted by BuickGN

I think some of the things that have happened are awful. I don't like how the Catholic Church handled some of it's problems and I'm Catholic. They acted slowly and did not get rid of the offenders when they should have. You will hear no excuses from me on that. The thing you have to remember is the Church is run by man and men make mistakes. It doesn't make the religion as a whole bad because a few individuals are sick in the head. They need to be removed and dealt with. I know you guys absolutely love these type of stories, in a Church with tens of thousands of Priests, .01% are sick in the head and you condemn the entire Church. We all know every child molester is religious of course.

The problem I see with this is that this small number of people are protected by the church. In turn each person they molest is affected. For example if one priest molests let's say 10 people-- this has much larger consequences. How many of those 10 will go on to repeat what was done to them? The number grows exponentially with time. I don't generally go out of my way to belittle any religious person, but when they do stupid shit that affects others then I have a problem with it.