Catholic here. Not as difficult as you might think.
Pretty sure some priests are pedophiles too.
“They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs”
And it turns out they were actually eating children. With disturbing descriptions of what it was like. RIP Madeleine McCann.
Missing a “further” there.
Quite easy. It was either King Salomon or King David who in their later years “had virgins in his bed every night.” In that time, you can assume that we are neither talking about 18+ women nor that this was in any modern sense consenting…
The Republican party is not a monolith guys, it’s made up of several distinct groups such as child rapists and child rapist enablers.
don’t forget team blue
Do need a lot of strength for that.
Daunting that what we’d been doing in prohibiting was not only handing it over to the black market, but increasing the value and attraction of our children to the molesters and blackmailers and worse.
That’s the hardest to come to terms with “Prohibition does not prevent. Pohibition makes the good things bad and the bad things worse.”, for our children.
Do need a lot of strength to face that horror.
But WOAH there… you’re gonna do what now?
“Integrate” how?
Check out poor Lot whose evil daughters plot to get him drunk so they can rape him. The poor old man, I’m sure there was no redaction going on in post production.
i mean, the catholics managed
Have you read the Bible? Harems, concubines, child brides, slavery, women shouldn’t speak, etc…
Have you read the Bible?
Evangelical Chriatians:
As a former evangelical Christian I can assure you that any average one of them can only be said to have read the bible in the same way that I could be said to have read my favorite cook book. If that.
Ok, so what is the current canon?
I don’t think the new testament includes child diddling, but I didn’t read much of that either.
Probably because I lost faith quite some time ago.
Well, as I see it, evangelical Christianity has just about totally morphed into Christian Nationalism by now, and the canon for Christian Nationalism seems to essentially be Trump’s Truth Social feed.
Pedophilia has always been a part of Christianity. Mary was 13 when she gave birth to Jesus. Joesph was in his 70s. It’s the basis of the religion. At least Christianity tries to hide it by pretending that she was virgin and her child was actually from god. That’s better than, say, islam, where mohammad just outright marries Aisha when was 6 years old and pretended that allah told him its halal.
It’s very unlikely Joseph was in his 70s. Neither of their ages are mentioned. Common estimates for Mary are 13-14, and Joseph being in late teens or early 20s.
Why are you acting like that is better?
Homie it was literally 2000 years ago and social norms have changed dramatically.
If God is perfect why does his religion adhere to “social norms” instead of right and wrong? Maybe that’s why the priests get to diddle kids, because of social norms.
It’s religious mythology built atop historical cultural standards. Arguing over the age at which a literal angel impregnated a virgin is fucking absurd and has nothing to do with modern morals either inside or outside the religious traditions predicated on it.
Two-thousand years later, members of this same Christian faith have overhauled both the cultural and legal standards for marriage around the globe. Meanwhile, outspoken atheists like Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss ended up all over the Epstein Files, despite unburdening themselves of archaic religious dogma.
