Why humanists shouldn’t join in this Catholic-bashing

[ConfusedTim]

This article, which i have just stumbled across so sorry if it is not the latest news is the most honest (although i do not agree with everything he writes) review of the priest scandal and puts many things into perspective. I think this is a must read for one and all.

spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8360/

 

[Gene2010]

Concerning the New York Times and cohorts. We have an old saying in this part of the world which goes like this: “Give them enough rope and they will end up hanging themselves.”

 

[St_Francis]

From the article: The discussion of a relatively rare phenomenon as a ‘great evil’ of our age shows that child abuse in Catholic churches has been turned into a morality tale – about the dangers of belief and of hierarchical institutions and the need for more state and other forms of intervention into religious institutions and even religious families.

Wow!!! Just… wow. And from an atheist to boot.

 

[Justin1982]

Thanks for the article ConfusedTim, makes a lot of sense the way the writer paints the story. The idea of the perpetual victim mentality is in itself an anti-Christian idea.

 

[averheyen]

Ammusing how the author comments on the fact he became an athiest at 17. Me, him, and everybody else. Sounds to me like he’s one of those guys who’s more Catholic then he realizes.

 

[MarcoPolo]

By and large a good article. The only big flaw I saw in his article was his propogation of the myth that pedophilia is a “product” of “celibacy.”

In a strange way, perhaps the author, a former Catholic himself, reveals one of his own issues against Catholicism—the sexual standards.

Still, I give him much credit for what for the most part amounts to a defense of the Catholic Church against Her enemies in the media.