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Vatican orders US bishops to delay taking action on sexual abuse crisis
Pope Francis has his hands full.
Pope Spends Afternoon Filling In Glory Holes All Over St. Peter’s Basilica
Pope Spends Afternoon Filling In Glory Holes All Over St. Peter’s Basilica
I don't know you so I have to ask- are you aware that "the Onion" is satire?
I knew that. What I didn't know was that you were aware of that fact as well.
US bishops conference: Vatican orders delay in taking action on sexual abuse crisis - CNN
Just not getting the idea that the choir boys are not a perk of the job yet.
I'd like to see the Catholic Church in the US prosecuted under the RICO statues as a criminal enterprise.
Yes, existing laws used as they are currently worded would destroy all religious organizations.
It would be a great day when churches would be used as bars, public schools, museums, libraries, and homeless shelters. They would finally have a socially acceptable purpose.
Organized theistic religion is a wart on society and it's about as beneficial as tastebuds on a hemorrhoid.
The Christian church consolidated its political power and knowledge after the fall of the Roman empire and that is what caused the dark ages for the next millennium.organized theistic religion is what built western society. There would be no North (or South) America or Western Europe as we conceive of without the Christian religion. Christianity is what produced our legal system, universities, hospitals, and virtually the entire foundation of science as we know it. To say otherwise makes you ignorant.
The Christian church consolidated its political power and knowledge after the fall of the Roman empire and that is what caused the dark ages for the next millennium.
The Abrahamic religions have held back the human race and were the source of the dark ages where the Christian church held the political power.
also false, the renaissance as a historical era was driven by the increase in stability in Western Europe, in part because of the end of the plaque, the end of the advance of muslim civilization, and re-urbanizationThe Renaissance happened because the power of the Christian church was controlled.
This is also false, the Catholic Church invested heavily in general education throughout the middle ages and virtually all top colleges in the US and Western Europe were founded as Seminaries.Educated logical people are not in the best interests of the theistic religion because they can think logically and see through the propaganda that their religion is based on.
What does that prove? It doesn't change that some secular states in Western Europe are Christianity based societies.The most religious areas of the world are also the poorest, sickest and most violent.
Why do you think that the Christian churches have abandoned western Europe and most of North America and instead is focusing their missionary efforts on 3rd world countries where the people aren't educated?
It would be a great day when churches would be used as bars, public schools, museums, libraries, and homeless shelters. They would finally have a socially acceptable purpose.
Organized theistic religion is a wart on society and it's about as beneficial as tastebuds on a hemorrhoid.
If it was in your power, would you take religion out of the lives of everyone in the world?
No, I would not. I would require the teaching of logic as a part of graduation because I don't support authoritarian governments. I'd rather give people the tools to think critically on their own than to either force or prohibit any idea(s).
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