• bramkaandorp@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Scumbags. Let them pay the wages of sin.

    And no, not literally. We’ve progressed from biblical morality.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        we could get biblical and stone them; or burn them at the stake. or, you know, the casual beheading.

        probably a good thing we’ve advanced beyond their tribal barbarism, though.

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    8 months ago

    Just a reminder that when the Church first realized they had a systemic problem back in the 80s, they took immediate action: every Church entity bought sex abuse insurance (at incredibly good rates); they cleaned their files, putting some under seal of the confessional, moving others toDC to be protected by diplomatic immunity, and simply destroying others; moving buildings and assets into separate entities so they wouldn’t be included in the list of resources available to pay victims; and they increased their policy of moving abusive priests to new, unsuspecting parishes.

    And that in every case so far, they claim that it wasn’t a problem, vigorously attack every effort at discovery, claim that if there was an issue it wasn’t the Church’s responsibility, and claim that the Church has no assets it can use to pay victims. If they’re found liable, they appeal the decision as well as the fine; have insurance cover most or all of the settlement; and if forced to pay out of their own money, immediately declare bankruptcy.

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      8 months ago

      And all of this has been public knowledge for a long, long time, long enough that anyone paying tithes to the Catholic Church is scum.

  • HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    Well, maybe the Norwegian Black Metal community had a point when they burned churches…

    NOTE: I’m not advocating burning churches. Well not at random. If it harbours a pedophile nail the doors shut and share General Molotov’s signature cocktail.