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Originally posted by Stazi:
I'm not saying my church is better than yours, but merely that the Catholic churches beliefs are not helping them.
What do you mean by 'not helping them'? The Catholic Church is the largest church on earth and that won't change any time soon.
Originally posted by Stazi:
If you think that changing some rules to allow priests to take wives and lessen the chance of molestation, is wrong, then I pity you. NOTHING is good about children being molested!
Good God! You would think the only people that molest young males are priests! Last I checked, any male in the general public can get married, yet child molestation still happens. Can someone explain that to me??  
It's a bogus cause/effect relationship.
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Originally posted by Stazi:
I think the Catholics try to emulate Christs where as other Christian faiths carry on the tradition of Christs disciples.
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Originally posted by Beowulf:
The Catholic church has perverted scripture for no particilar reason other than to control it's people and it's clergy for decades.
Originally posted by Tourgasm:
Sometimes you can mess up a word so bad that spell check doens't know what the hell you're talking about.
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Originally posted by Pope Dnewma IV:
I'm Catholic and would love to see them endorse birth control and allow priests to marry. The second of which would be more difficult with the centuries long traditions associated with it. If nothing else, endorse masturbation and porn...
Wow, what a horrible thing to say....
Let's endorse it because we can't "control" anything we do huh?
Those priests, just like anybody else who commits a horrible and disgusting act against a child (including the married men, men who look at porn, men who masturbate, etc)have a choice.
They choose their actions, they aren't drawn into it like unsuspecting women in thriller movies are drawn to see what that noise was...
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Originally posted by Viss1:
Originally posted by TourDeForce:
Frankly, I'd like to see a really strong pope come out & take on secularism.
Me too, I'd like to see the Catholic leadership become more militant in condemning Catholics who pick & choose which portions of that religion they observe. That would then lead to more people giving more thought to what they really believe and questioning organized religion in general.
The first part I agree with. The likes of John Kerry and Ted Kennedy should be excommunicated. The last sentence made me laugh.
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Originally posted by Davo:
Originally posted by Viss1:
Originally posted by TourDeForce:
Frankly, I'd like to see a really strong pope come out & take on secularism.
Me too, I'd like to see the Catholic leadership become more militant in condemning Catholics who pick & choose which portions of that religion they observe. That would then lead to more people giving more thought to what they really believe and questioning organized religion in general.
The first part I agree with. The likes of John Kerry and Ted Kennedy should be excommunicated. The last sentence made me laugh.
No they need to be sent to a gulag!
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Originally posted by Viss1:
Two Priests discover an ancient original version of the Bible. The senior Priest secludes himself in a basement to study the manuscript without interruption. After two days, the other Priest visits him, and finds the older one sobbing uncontrollably.
"What is it, Father?" asks the younger Priest.
"It says 'celebrate,' not 'celibate!!'" cries the older one.
LMFAO! 
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Originally posted by Davo:
Good God! You would think the only people that molest young males are priests! Last I checked, any male in the general public can get married, yet child molestation still happens.
There is a difference in any male in the general public and a priest. A priest is someone that should be trusted in the community not groping your children. BTW, i am catholic.
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Originally posted by RawBurt:
There is a difference in any male in the general public and a priest. A priest is someone that should be trusted in the community not groping your children. BTW, i am catholic.
Uhh...you don't get my point. Marriage in the general public does not solve the problem of pedophilia. Why would it in the Catholic Church?
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The proportion of pedophiles in the Catholic church is higher than the general population, and nonetheless, the priest is our "Father". And your Father shouldn't be molesting you.
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