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Post by The Drunken Communist on Oct 6, 2020 11:19:47 GMT
What is it with religions & paedophiles?
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Post by lawrieleslie on Oct 6, 2020 13:46:34 GMT
Religion and paedophiles Religion and persecution Religion and armed conflict Religion and discrimination Religion and conflict with science Religion and irrational beliefs Etc, etc, etc....
The list goes on and on. IMO religion is the root of most that is wrong with our world.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 13:46:42 GMT
Vulnerability and trust seem to be easy to target within structures based on authority and power.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Oct 6, 2020 14:49:53 GMT
What is it with religions & paedophiles? Very easy to use the threat of eternal damnation if you don't do what the clergyman wants, I imagine... Surely, any Christian organisation's appropriate response should be forgiveness, report to the police, never let them near kids again, rather than cover up and denial. But hypocrisy and religion are never far away from each other.
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Post by felonious on May 20, 2021 19:19:33 GMT
Does anyone think that Justin Welby is going to heaven? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57187132Not mentioned in this BBC article but I'm sure I've just heard on the radio that the current Archbishop of Canterbury was there at the same time as this monster. I appreciate that Justin Welby is not responsible for the various indiscretions over the decades but he's surely part of the problem that keeps kicking these issues into the long grass.
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Post by bigjohnritchie on May 20, 2021 19:40:38 GMT
Does anyone think that Justin Welby is going to heaven? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57187132Not mentioned in this BBC article but I'm sure I've just heard on the radio that the current Archbishop of Canterbury was there at the same time as this monster. I appreciate that Justin Welby is not responsible for the various indiscretions over the decades but he's surely part of the problem that keeps kicking these issues into the long grass. I'm always amazed by a fact, in my opinion, which is totally overlooked. Jesus, a Jew, was highly critical of the hypocrisy of the Jewish religious leaders. This is the central theme of the New Testament. Ultimately it led to his death. In this modern era , organised religion , whatever variety, displays the same characteristics. A modern day Jesus would probably condemn "Christianity" , Islam etc, Just as Jesus criticised the Jewish religion. Organised religion isn't the same as personal belief. Parallels can be made with political belief.....party politics stifles individual thinking and belief. In my opinion.
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Post by lordb on May 20, 2021 20:28:45 GMT
Does anyone think that Justin Welby is going to heaven? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57187132Not mentioned in this BBC article but I'm sure I've just heard on the radio that the current Archbishop of Canterbury was there at the same time as this monster. I appreciate that Justin Welby is not responsible for the various indiscretions over the decades but he's surely part of the problem that keeps kicking these issues into the long grass. I'm always amazed by a fact, in my opinion, which is totally overlooked. Jesus, a Jew, was highly critical of the hypocrisy of the Jewish religious leaders. This is the central theme of the New Testament. Ultimately it led to.hod death. In this modern era , organised religion , whatever variety, displays the same characteristics. A modern day Jesus would probably condemn "Christianity" , Islam etc, Justin as Jesus criticised the Jewish religion. Organised religion isn't the same as personal belief. Parallels can be made with political belief.....party politics stifles individual thinking and belief. In my opinion. Agreed Disorganised religion is a way forward
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2021 20:52:28 GMT
I'm always amazed by a fact, in my opinion, which is totally overlooked. Jesus, a Jew, was highly critical of the hypocrisy of the Jewish religious leaders. This is the central theme of the New Testament. Ultimately it led to.hod death. In this modern era , organised religion , whatever variety, displays the same characteristics. A modern day Jesus would probably condemn "Christianity" , Islam etc, Justin as Jesus criticised the Jewish religion. Organised religion isn't the same as personal belief. Parallels can be made with political belief.....party politics stifles individual thinking and belief. In my opinion. Agreed Disorganised religion is a way forwardPeople turning up when the felt like it and expecting mass, be chaos. totally agree re politics and seems so much swept under the carpet in those circles as well.
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Post by cerebralstokie on May 20, 2021 20:54:41 GMT
Immediately after I obtained my Post Grad Dip. Ed. I spent 6 weeks teaching in a fairly well known Public School covering for a teacher who had died a couple of months before he was due to retire. There was a Chaplain and an Assistant. Apparently the "Assistant" Had been cautioned for "inappropriate" behaviour with boys. He should have been showed the exit door straight away but was not. Also the Head did not know in which of his two castles to spend the summer!
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Post by felonious on May 21, 2021 5:38:31 GMT
This is a bit more enlightening on the Archbishop who knew nothing about anything and is now horrified. The archbishop of Canterbury has issued a “full personal apology” to survivors of sadistic abuse perpetrated by a QC in the 1970s and 80s against public schoolboys who attended Christian holiday camps. Justin Welby, who worked as a dormitory officer at the so-called “Bash camps” in the 1970s, said: “I am sorry this was done in the name of Jesus Christ by a perverted version of spirituality and evangelicalism … I continue to hear new details of the abuse and my sorrow, shock and horror grows.” John Smyth, who died in 2018, carried out “horrific beatings” of teenage boys who attended the camps, in his garden shed, according to a secret 1982 report from the Iwerne Trust, which funded the camps. Smyth was the chairman of the trust, whose activities were later taken over by the Titus Trust. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/20/archbishop-of-canterbury-apologises-to-abused-participants-in-christian-camps
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Post by lawrieleslie on May 21, 2021 16:12:25 GMT
This is a bit more enlightening on the Archbishop who knew nothing about anything and is now horrified. The archbishop of Canterbury has issued a “full personal apology” to survivors of sadistic abuse perpetrated by a QC in the 1970s and 80s against public schoolboys who attended Christian holiday camps. Justin Welby, who worked as a dormitory officer at the so-called “Bash camps” in the 1970s, said: “I am sorry this was done in the name of Jesus Christ by a perverted version of spirituality and evangelicalism … I continue to hear new details of the abuse and my sorrow, shock and horror grows.” John Smyth, who died in 2018, carried out “horrific beatings” of teenage boys who attended the camps, in his garden shed, according to a secret 1982 report from the Iwerne Trust, which funded the camps. Smyth was the chairman of the trust, whose activities were later taken over by the Titus Trust. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/20/archbishop-of-canterbury-apologises-to-abused-participants-in-christian-campsTo try and somehow legalise this monsters behaviour by describing it as a "perverted version of spirituality and evangelicalism" is beyond belief. No you dog collared moron this pervert was a criminal who got away with it because of your church's cover ups.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2021 16:21:08 GMT
More and more cover ups in the Church of England seem to be appearing regularly. kind of ironic that Rangers fans are daubing churches with messages when their own club lied about reporting a case of child abuse against on of their own to the police.
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