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Former Priest Convicted of 1960 Murder of Woman Killed After Going to Confession

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-priest-convicted-1960-murder-211029560.html

More christian violence.

“So I asked Father Feit, why are you here and not in prison?” Tacheny testified, according to footage from KRGV-TV. “He said there were three things. Number one, the church helped me, primarily through a priest. Law enforcement helped him. Finally, the seal of confession helped him.”
 

57 years ago? This is more violence?
Slow day? Easily triggered? Too much tequila?
 

This guy.......he lived near me, he worked at the church behind my house....So many years to convict.

Read this story...it started it all: Altar Ego | Phoenix New Times
 
beefheart said:
RTFA......He was a priest when he killed Irene, and a few weeks prior, he assaulted Maria America Guerra and was fined $500
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But he has been convicted of this nearly six decades-old crime as a former priest.
 
Another reason to hate religion and what it does.

(There are also reasons to admire religions)
 
lefty louie said:
Another reason to hate religion and what it does.

(There are also reasons to admire religions)
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The man's being a priest had nothing to do with his murdering this young woman so long ago and everything to do with his being a sick and murderous man.
 
nota bene said:
The man's being a priest had nothing to do with his murdering this young woman so long ago and everything to do with his being a sick and murderous man.
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I don't recall me saying it did. But the religion helped cover it up, didn't it?
 
nota bene said:
The man's being a priest had nothing to do with his murdering this young woman so long ago and everything to do with his being a sick and murderous man.
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Probably not, but religion made it easier, just like religion makes child molesting easier. Priests and other clergy get an automatic, but entirely undeserved respect and because many people see them as mouthpieces for God, they don't want to be honest when it comes to the priests committing crimes. Parents will leave their young children with priests and when something happens, are more apt to believe the priest over their own children. And then there are the churches which purposely hide these crimes from the proper authorities because as much as people talk about the blue wall of silence for police, it's even moreso the case with clergy, where one will not turn on another no matter what they've done. And you get entire congregations who, even when it's proven that their pastor has committed some heinous crime, they will stand behind him because again, he's the mouthpiece of God, he can't ever do anything wrong.

Religion is a terrible thing, period. There is nothing demonstrably true or objectively useful that religion can provide the world.
 

:roll:

Everything you said here also applies to teachers and coaches.
 
Harshaw said:
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Everything you said here also applies to teachers and coaches.
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True, but teachers and coaches don't have a supposed pipeline to the divine. Priests are assumed to have that a lot of the time.
 
Cephus said:
True, but teachers and coaches don't have a supposed pipeline to the divine. Priests are assumed to have that a lot of the time.
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So what? It doesn't change anything about the fact that everything you say about clergy and children also applies to teachers/coaches and children. (Or scoutmaster, or any other type of shepherd). The religious aspect of clergy is irrelevant when it comes to that.
 

Because people, especially parents, don't have a problem going after teachers and coaches, people don't idolize teachers and coaches. Heck, Jerry Sandusky was a hero and he went down the second it became known what he'd done. Priests have that built-in level of protection because people are afraid that some imaginary man in the sky might strike then down for speaking ill of one of his mouthpieces. It's one of the reasons that the Catholic Church has paid out billions of dollars to victims over the years, after the church has known that the priest is guilty and just keeps shuffling them around. They know it's really hard to get the victims to come forward for decades and decades after the abuse occurs. You only have to read up on this to see case after case of congregations standing behind their pastor, even after they've been convicted of the crime.

You're just wrong.
 

That's utter nonsense. If clergy get the benefit of the doubt, it's for the same reason any other leader in a community does.


That's true of many, many victims of sexual assault, especially childhood sexual assault, no matter who the perpetrator is. (Ask Roy Moore.)

You only have to read up on this to see case after case of congregations standing behind their pastor, even after they've been convicted of the crime.

You're just wrong.
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No, you're trying to blame religion exclusively for things that humans just plain do regardless, including standing behind known criminals.

There is not one thing that would be different in human behavior if there were no religion. Religion is the bogeyman you need to place irrational blame for things which are simply human nature.
 
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