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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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it"
] |
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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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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."
] |
>
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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian."
] |
>
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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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."
] |
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That's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere."
] |
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If Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker"
] |
>
WAIT when did they get rid of the free awards | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference."
] |
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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 | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards"
] |
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And yet where are all the "anti-groomers" protesting these churches? | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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"
] |
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It’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?"
] |
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At this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people"
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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? | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets."
] |
>
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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?"
] |
>
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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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 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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass."
] |
>
*making another streak to the tally list wall
*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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."
] |
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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 | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks"
] |
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Priest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this"
] |
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Correction! PedoPreist | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented"
] |
>
New name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist"
] |
>
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... | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos."
] |
>
Then that would mean that... Gasp
South Park was right all along....
Sneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice.... | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up..."
] |
>
Wish I was surprised | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice...."
] |
>
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 | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised"
] |
>
Holy hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out"
] |
>
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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia."
] |
>
none of them are immune to the depravity.
Almost implied, really. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't."
] |
>
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? | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really."
] |
>
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.” | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?"
] |
>
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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”"
] |
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5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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."
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5 years and a ticket to heaven | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison."
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Heaven? For him? | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven"
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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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?"
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Don't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them? | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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."
] |
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I would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?"
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yes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too."
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Yes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one"
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Yeah but.........
I'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry."
] |
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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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them."
] |
>
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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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."
] |
>
Once I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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."
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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." | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense."
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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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\""
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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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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."
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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! | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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."
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r/PastorArrested (also includes Priests) | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!"
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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. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)"
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If there is a god, wtf? | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money"
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"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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."
- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money"
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What an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right? | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit"
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“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!” | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?"
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"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids"
-Trixie Mattel, 2022 | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”"
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Kid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”
Padre “ call me, maybe?” | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022"
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Imagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”"
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GOP: "But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!" | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\""
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾"
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What's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people? | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free"
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Oh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church? | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?"
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r/pastorarrested | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?"
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Church is a scary place, especially for children. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested"
] |
>
I think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children."
] |
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Only 5 years. What a joke. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior."
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The Congregation added in the statement that it is "committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium," an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.
If you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke."
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No one is suprised a priest is a pedophile.
But printing out yer nudes? That's odd. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem."
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I can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd."
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I'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason."
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The sheer audacity to do it at church where you work | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea."
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And not a drag queen in sight... | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight..."
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Too many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though"
] |
>
Pretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic"
] |
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The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population
one important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance."
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Yeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them"
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I guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross"
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A priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing! | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?"
] |
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Remember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly."
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That's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got"
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It blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials."
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Idiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long"
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so is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding."
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I completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷♂️ | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding.",
">\n\nso is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em."
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5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding.",
">\n\nso is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em.",
">\n\nI completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷♂️"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding.",
">\n\nso is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em.",
">\n\nI completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day."
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I'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.
Right? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding.",
">\n\nso is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em.",
">\n\nI completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children"
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But the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding.",
">\n\nso is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em.",
">\n\nI completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird."
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Weird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding.",
">\n\nso is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em.",
">\n\nI completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s"
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Their god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding.",
">\n\nso is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em.",
">\n\nI completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding.",
">\n\nso is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em.",
">\n\nI completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are."
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And he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding.",
">\n\nso is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em.",
">\n\nI completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\""
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Doesn't NotTheOnion imply the news was unexpected or surprising in some way? Anyone here really surprised a priest is involved in compiling / making(?) CP? Im certainly not... | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding.",
">\n\nso is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em.",
">\n\nI completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding.",
">\n\nso is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em.",
">\n\nI completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn't NotTheOnion imply the news was unexpected or surprising in some way? Anyone here really surprised a priest is involved in compiling / making(?) CP? Im certainly not..."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck 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.\nLapsed 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.",
">\n\nThere 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. \nI 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.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause 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. \nAny 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. \nYou 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.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess 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",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears 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.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn 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.\nCan 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.",
">\n\nWith 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.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. 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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe Congregation added in the statement that it is \"committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium,\" an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.\n\nIf you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them",
">\n\nYeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean.",
">\n\nI guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long",
">\n\nIdiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding.",
">\n\nso is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em.",
">\n\nI completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn't NotTheOnion imply the news was unexpected or surprising in some way? Anyone here really surprised a priest is involved in compiling / making(?) CP? Im certainly not...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?"
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