Thanks brah. {love the user name by the way}
I'm always up for decent debate, or some good natured verbal beat downs.
You want to see religious terrorists?
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Thanks brah. {love the user name by the way}
I'm always up for decent debate, or some good natured verbal beat downs.
Rusty, I'm gonna assume you can debate intelligently.
Where did I mention "God" anywhere? I said many {as in dozens} of priests and even many more others who ignored this despicable act are to blame. Far more that the supposed "one" that you brought up. IMO that makes the entire Catholic religion stained with shame.
Just wondering how my point is mute because you say people knowing and hiding the truth exempts it.
Don't make sense to me.A pedophile could be living in my neighborhood and be an atheist....
True, but an atheist pedophile isn't out trying to convert you to their way of thinking. Nor is he being hypocritical in his actions. Get what I'm saying?
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All very true. And I'm Irish Catholic. :look:
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to Rusty. He's just our version of Frank Burns."
I agree.I guess the only thing I would question is the word entire.One would assume some Catholics attended services faithfully with neither knowledge or participation in those shameless acts.
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thats because the people in power swept it under the rug. Now why would they do that if they were not implicated in transeferring, covering up,
maybe involved with abusing children themselves.
this one really gets me mad.
are we off topic ?
Very true Scotty.
Vatican Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Boys
Top Vatican officials ? including the future Pope Benedict XVI ? did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit.
The internal correspondence from bishops in Wisconsin directly to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope, shows that while church officials tussled over whether the priest should be dismissed, their highest priority was protecting the church from scandal.
The documents emerge as Pope Benedict is facing other accusations that he and direct subordinates often did not alert civilian authorities or discipline priests involved in sexual abuse when he served as an archbishop in Germany and as the Vatican?s chief doctrinal enforcer.
The Wisconsin case involved an American priest, the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy, who worked at a renowned school for deaf children from 1950 to 1974. But it is only one of thousands of cases forwarded over decades by bishops to the Vatican office called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, led from 1981 to 2005 by Cardinal Ratzinger. It is still the office that decides whether accused priests should be given full canonical trials and defrocked.
The rest of the story...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/world/europe/25vatican.html?_r=1
Still, the questions about Obama's faith didn't stop.
"Did Obama order creation of a postage stamp to honor a Muslim holiday?" FactCheck.org's answer: "The first class stamp honoring Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha was first issued eight years ago. Obama has followed Bush's practice of reaching out to Muslims on Ramadan."
Superstitions and myths are timeless and universal, and so are the people who exploit them, whether Holocaust deniers, race supremacists or conspiracy theorists.
Misinformation in the mass media age was captured by the author-columnist Walter Lippman in his classic "Public Opinion," published in 1922. Finding that world events were driven by a tiny minority manipulating the rest, Lippman noted "the comparatively meager time available in each day for paying attention to public affairs, the distortion arising because events have to be compressed into very short messages, the difficulty of making a small vocabulary express a complicated world."
The problem wasn't only with the media, but with the public.
"People, he wrote, "live in the same world, but think and feel in different ones." Lippman believed many "suffer from anemia, from lack of appetite and curiosity for the human scene."
And so millions have thought that the country was overrun with communists, that John F. Kennedy was taking orders from the pope, that AIDS spreads through casual contact, that Saddam Hussein or even the George W. Bush administration helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks. In the 1990s, when the government was running a surplus under the Clinton administration, a poll showed substantial numbers of people thought it was running a deficit.
DiFonzo was stunned when he heard one of those rumors stated as fact in his upper-level social psychology class last year. A student raised her hand and insisted, "But George Bush was behind the bombings of Sept. 11."
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this really is a crazy stupid world.
"Did Obama order creation of a postage stamp to honor a Muslim holiday?" FactCheck.org's answer: "The first class stamp honoring Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha was first issued eight years ago. Obama has followed Bush's practice of reaching out to Muslims on Ramadan."
Superstitions and myths are timeless and universal, and so are the people who exploit them, whether Holocaust deniers, race supremacists or conspiracy theorists.
Misinformation in the mass media age was captured by the author-columnist Walter Lippman in his classic "Public Opinion," published in 1922. Finding that world events were driven by a tiny minority manipulating the rest, Lippman noted "the comparatively meager time available in each day for paying attention to public affairs, the distortion arising because events have to be compressed into very short messages, the difficulty of making a small vocabulary express a complicated world."
The problem wasn't only with the media, but with the public.
"People, he wrote, "live in the same world, but think and feel in different ones." Lippman believed many "suffer from anemia, from lack of appetite and curiosity for the human scene."
And so millions have thought that the country was overrun with communists, that John F. Kennedy was taking orders from the pope, that AIDS spreads through casual contact, that Saddam Hussein or even the George W. Bush administration helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks. In the 1990s, when the government was running a surplus under the Clinton administration, a poll showed substantial numbers of people thought it was running a deficit.
DiFonzo was stunned when he heard one of those rumors stated as fact in his upper-level social psychology class last year. A student raised her hand and insisted, "But George Bush was behind the bombings of Sept. 11."
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this really is a crazy stupid world.
Its all good in my book to.We might not agree on the issues ,but hate is a strong word.Geez I don't even hate TU:scared .I just said it.
Anyways...
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if you could stop hating the indians I think I could begin to forgive you
