In part, i do agree with you Geographer. But, this is not God’s decision to push priest to commit pedophile, that is the devil’s work, but, unless we, sinners realize the importance of God and do not twist His commandments then, things might possibly be right. I also agree with some people that wrote some comments above, about that our society has become so lack of moral principles and that due to the desensitization of our main moral values, everything seems in the view of us, human, more logical, like for example: abortion (we know it is a killing) but some of us we doubt if it is ok or not, not because we do not know that is a killing but, maybe we have a daughter to worry about, or we believe that it is better to have an abortion instead of leaving the children in an orphanate, instead of getting rid of the child, etc, or because the costs of our medical insurances are going to go up, etc. the very fact of having an abortion is an action of killing. there is no way around.
Let’s take another example: wars (what is a war? war means killing hundreds of people) isn’t that a killing? even if we claim that it is to free some people, or because we THOUGHT that they have nuclear weapons, etc. aren’t we, after all, committing a killing or being in agreement to commit those crimes? i tell you, it is a crime and we are also guilty of such happenings. what about contraceptives? according to church, it is not allow to use them, but, what do we do with that rule? we use them, because it is more convenient, etc. In the first place, crimes committed by pedophiles are not acceptable, in nobody’s eyes, it does not matter who commit them, priest, public, etc. we can not make excuses also that priests are more prone or that it is ok to do such acts. No, it is a crime, in the eyes of the people and even more in the eyes of God. God is the first one that is crying for all the corruption that we carry in our souls, for all the twists and excuses we make for our own convenience, but, the truth, there is only one truth, like the examples above. Nobody can hide or excuse what is the real truth. We like to lie to ourselves, to make excuses of the wrong behaviors, but we are as guilty as those who commited such crimes like wars, etc. That is the reason why we must be strong in keeping our commandments firm and to keep a society well grounded in moral values, not to distort realities or facts, because, if we think that we are the only one affected we are wrong, don’t we have families? don’t we have children, grandchildren, nephews, etc, beloved people we should care about their personal moral values they are growing with? if this is happening now, that we have allowed so much “liberty” i wonder how the world is going to be when those little children grow up? maybe something like Sodom and Gomorrah? or why there are always wars everywhere? because we have planted violence and said: violence is good, in the name of whatever reason you want to give. It is time to reencounter our moral values, the preachings of our Lord.
May God help us and guide us to become better children of God, not by saying, but by our own actions, without excuses.
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Carlan
I gave an overly simplified answer to an overly simplied and possibly the wrong question. and you isolate my short bleep. Sure, whatever. You’re funny.