Church scandal

This is pretty late but let me drop my 2 cents in the basket

1. One of the dumbest arguments I have heard is any attempt to relate child abuse to priests being able to marry. Period. (Ignoratio Elenchi)

2. There have been a lot of payouts made by the church to victims – I have read infinite amounts about this but not about priests being jailed. This is so fundamentally wrong for me – and a damnation on the justice system in general. How are these payouts not shameful in their own right? Money should not be able to buy justice. It should not bring peace and closure. It is not retribution.

After all is said and done, I seriously do not understand why things like evolution and gay marriage are issues in contemporary Western society.

During the US presidential debate, one of the questions was whether the candidates believed every word of the Bible. Hold on..isn’t there a problem here. What if the question was about the Qu’ran? Let’s throw out the theocracy and be a little more open minded.

“I fear, the triumph will not be for free thought, because the masses dislike reason, and its teachings are only understood by some intelligences of the elite, and because, also, science, however beautiful it is, does not completely satisfy humanity, which thirsts for the ideal, and which likes to exist in dark and distant regions that the philosophers and scholars can neither perceive nor explore.”