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aviv_b_artworkBy now, I'm sure you've heard that the leaders of the Catholic Church have taken the position that the priest pedophile scandal is really a 'homosexual' scandal rather than child abuse. Since they claim that most of the victims were past puberty, then no child molestation took place. And besides, its the kids' faults
Uh..No...FAIL! Sexual orientation has nothing to do with this and regardless of their age or sexual maturity the children are victims. That hasn't played out too well for church officials so now they resort to the classic fall back position.
THE JEWS DID IT!
That's right your friendly neighborhood Jew set the whole thing up. Taking off time from our world-wide conspiracy of controlling the banks and the stock markets, pausing from using the blood of Christian babies to bake matzoh, we Jews have managed to get these men to molest children. We made them do it!
We are multi-tasking mavens, aren't we?
From the Salon Blog: http://open.salon.com/blog/judy_mandelbaum/2010/04/12/chutzpah_bishop_blames_the_jews_for_pedophile_scandal
Retired Bishop Giacomo Babini of the Italian town of Grosseto told the Catholic Pontifex website that the Catholic pedophile scandal is being orchestrated by the “eternal enemies of Catholicism, namely the freemasons and the Jews, whose mutual entanglements are not always easy to see through. … I think that it is primarily a Zionist attack, in view of its power and refinement. They do not want the church, they are its natural enemies. Deep down, historically speaking, the Jews are God-killers.”
But wait there's more:
“The Holocaust was a disgrace for all of humanity,” the good bishop told the world, “but now we have to look at it without rhetoric and with open eyes. Don’t believe that Hitler was merely crazy. The truth is that the Nazis’ criminal fury was provoked by the Jews’ economic embezzlement, by which they choked the German economy.” He concluded that the Jews’ “guilt is graver than what Christ predicted would happen to them, saying ‘do not cry for me, but for your own children.’”
Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. What next? Really, who are you going to target next? The Muslims? The Atheists? The Tooth Fairy?
Enough is enough! It's time for you all to put your big-boy pants on and take responsibility for your actions. For the child molestations, for the hiding of the molestations, for your failure to act to defrock child-molesting members of your clergy, for the continuing demonization of the victims, and for your out and out bigotry against gays, Jews and whoever else you decide is a convenient target.
Uh..No...FAIL! Sexual orientation has nothing to do with this and regardless of their age or sexual maturity the children are victims. That hasn't played out too well for church officials so now they resort to the classic fall back position.
THE JEWS DID IT!
That's right your friendly neighborhood Jew set the whole thing up. Taking off time from our world-wide conspiracy of controlling the banks and the stock markets, pausing from using the blood of Christian babies to bake matzoh, we Jews have managed to get these men to molest children. We made them do it!
We are multi-tasking mavens, aren't we?
From the Salon Blog: http://open.salon.com/blog/judy_mandelbaum/2010/04/12/chutzpah_bishop_blames_the_jews_for_pedophile_scandal
Retired Bishop Giacomo Babini of the Italian town of Grosseto told the Catholic Pontifex website that the Catholic pedophile scandal is being orchestrated by the “eternal enemies of Catholicism, namely the freemasons and the Jews, whose mutual entanglements are not always easy to see through. … I think that it is primarily a Zionist attack, in view of its power and refinement. They do not want the church, they are its natural enemies. Deep down, historically speaking, the Jews are God-killers.”
But wait there's more:
“The Holocaust was a disgrace for all of humanity,” the good bishop told the world, “but now we have to look at it without rhetoric and with open eyes. Don’t believe that Hitler was merely crazy. The truth is that the Nazis’ criminal fury was provoked by the Jews’ economic embezzlement, by which they choked the German economy.” He concluded that the Jews’ “guilt is graver than what Christ predicted would happen to them, saying ‘do not cry for me, but for your own children.’”
Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. What next? Really, who are you going to target next? The Muslims? The Atheists? The Tooth Fairy?
Enough is enough! It's time for you all to put your big-boy pants on and take responsibility for your actions. For the child molestations, for the hiding of the molestations, for your failure to act to defrock child-molesting members of your clergy, for the continuing demonization of the victims, and for your out and out bigotry against gays, Jews and whoever else you decide is a convenient target.
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Date: 2010-04-13 08:42 pm (UTC)It's a poor attempt at misdirection. "Don't look here. Look over there!"
There's been a long and sordid equation between homosexuality and pedophilia - even though studies of pedophiles indicate that most have heterosexual tendencies. So making out that it's the gays is the Catholic churches fallback position.
Don't you know that the Pope and everyone else in the Catholic Church are infallible? I feel sorry for the Catholic congregation, and those priests who can keep it in their pants/robes, who are more than likely just trying to get on with their lives, and follow the teachings of their God - it must knock your confidence in your church when shit like this goes on.
No matter what the age, if there's coercion, exploitation, non-consensuality, then it's abuse.
The Catholic pedophile scandal is being driven by the Catholic pedophiles and those who seek to protect them, and the shocking ways in which they are going about hiding or justifying it; the rest of us right thinking and right feeling people are just outraged at the hypocrisy and vitriol pouring out from the Church. It seems like they're so bloody angry that they got caught, not realising that the act itself is unconscionable.
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Date: 2010-04-14 02:10 am (UTC)My BFF at work is a minimally observant Catholic. And she is just heartsick. Her position has always been there was the Church made of of ordinary people and then the Hierarchy and the doctrine and you could love one and ignore the other. Now she's not so sure.
Hey if my Rabbi screws up, either (s)he gets fired or I join another shul. Been there, done that. So my faith is never put to the test by one person's actions. And no one is infallible. No one. Not in my world
But the problem with any large, powerful organization, is that its easy to lose site of the goal and become a self-protecting bureaucracy whose only goal is self-perpetuation. And the Catholic Church has done this in spades.