The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities will be excommunicated.
https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-church-excommunicate-priests-following-new-us-state-law-2069039
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It’s not unique to Catholicism. Fundamentalists are just as bad. It’s also not unique to Christians. It’s not even unique to religious people.
So your rant is obscuring the real scope and nature of the problem, and your encouragement of arson would almost certainly lead to the deaths of innocent people.
Incidentally, I’m an atheist who is a former Catholic, so there’s no love lost between me and the Catholic Church. But I’m also aware that the US has an ugly history of anti-Catholic persecution that has no basis in the church’s odious practices. For example, the KKK and many nativist groups from the late 19th and early 20th centuries hated Catholics as much as they hated Black people or the Chinese.
Oh, there are plenty of other kinds of war going on now in addition to the class war that the rich have been waging against us for centuries.
Let’s do the thought experiment where this is about muslims instead of christians…
How does that play out?
Call me crazy, but I don’t think any religion should be molesting children or hiding it for others.
Ill call you Thomas the Tank Engine if i care to call at all, and i was pointing out the selective exceptionalism at work.