Comments on: Support the Pope, Support Child Abuse http://www.perfectlyturbulent.com/support-the-pope-support-child-abuse/ Because its better to be riding the waves than fighting them Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:07:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: david burcombe http://www.perfectlyturbulent.com/support-the-pope-support-child-abuse/comment-page-1/#comment-1863 david burcombe Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:40:28 +0000 http://www.perfectlyturbulent.com/?p=659#comment-1863 i am a Christian but not a roman catholic. What will encourage many other RCs to leave the church and take refuge in the free church. How may priests have abused children I wonder . Some parents have accepted it and done nothing. Shame on these parents who let their priest abuse their children. Call yourself Christian read the bible Jesus said suffer little children to come unto me but not for sexual gratification, The pope and all the priests that abused children shopuld be prosecuted and this present Pope should be removed from office. He will never be half the man John Paul was. i am a Christian but not a roman catholic. What will encourage many other RCs to leave the church and take refuge in the free church. How may priests have abused children I wonder . Some parents have accepted it and done nothing. Shame on these parents who let their priest abuse their children. Call yourself Christian read the bible Jesus said suffer little children to come unto me but not for sexual gratification, The pope and all the priests that abused children shopuld be prosecuted and this present Pope should be removed from office. He will never be half the man John Paul was.

]]> By: Christina http://www.perfectlyturbulent.com/support-the-pope-support-child-abuse/comment-page-1/#comment-1795 Christina Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:42:18 +0000 http://www.perfectlyturbulent.com/?p=659#comment-1795 Isn't is a horrible feeling to know that even though there are thousands of good people who work hard in this religion, there is a similar amount using it as a safe haven for paedophilia? Its not a case of 'a few bad apples', it really is a situation that they've been raising poisoned crops of men to fill the gig of priest for a long time. This is really discussed in a documentary called “Deliver Us From Evil”. It’s about paedophile priest from Ireland who was moved around the US in the 70s as the infamous Catholic Church cover up. It will make your stomach turn but is worth seeing. The Irish priest is actually fascinating in the same way Satan can be fascinating. In his own revelations you can see that he knew he was a danger to children and openly admitted to his bishop that he was attracted to children in their underwear…and the church just moved him! The different angle for this story is that he was molesting girls, not boys. One of his victims admits that she was told that they knew she was being abused but she was a girl. Had she been a boy, then it would have been obscene. In the movie you can see that the priest's mental capacity clearly did not develop beyond that of a 15-year-old boy. The movie goes into the physiological development of young boys while they are being trained for the priesthood and how that they were not exposed to or taught about sexuality properly. I believe they acknowledge the fact that what could have caused such a disproportional amount of paedophilia in priest’s vs another sample group of the public is that the last time these men remember being able to be freely sexual was as a young boy, before being brainwashed into believing that sex was a sin and that they would never marry. All the while possibly being molested themselves. It really was a breeding ground for paedophiles. The poisoned crop. Another consideration was that 50 years ago young boys who showed signs of being gay were thrown into seminary school to 'fix them' and if not fix them, at least have them live an socially acceptable life while not having to marry a woman. The entire concept of a priest not being able to marry (which as I understand is not in the bible, it was a Vatican made rule) is the fatal flaw in this system. Even for men who entered the priesthood later as a young adult it was a perfect set up to not face society as a gay man. Really, what else would a man in any era before the 1980's, who was not attracted to women, do to fit in with society and get away with not marrying and having a family? And being a priest they would not have had access to other gay men back then like any free gay man would today. But what they did have was power and influence over young alter servers. Talk about recipe for disaster. I wonder if in 200 years students will be reading (or downloading into their brains) history texts about this period in Catholicism and ask "what were they thinking!?", much in the way we today question events like the Salem Witchhunt or the Holocaust. I wonder... Regardless of how I or others feel, I can't imagine what its like for those who truly believe in the Catholic Church to be witnessing this. Because no matter how many of us disgruntled, open-minded Catholics or non-Catholics comment or rant, it doesn't rock our belief structure or make us question our life's purpose. But imagine what a 70-year-old nun anywhere in the world would feel like today watching her whole life's work turned into this? Isn’t is a horrible feeling to know that even though there are thousands of good people who work hard in this religion, there is a similar amount using it as a safe haven for paedophilia? Its not a case of ‘a few bad apples’, it really is a situation that they’ve been raising poisoned crops of men to fill the gig of priest for a long time.

This is really discussed in a documentary called “Deliver Us From Evil”. It’s about paedophile priest from Ireland who was moved around the US in the 70s as the infamous Catholic Church cover up. It will make your stomach turn but is worth seeing. The Irish priest is actually fascinating in the same way Satan can be fascinating. In his own revelations you can see that he knew he was a danger to children and openly admitted to his bishop that he was attracted to children in their underwear…and the church just moved him! The different angle for this story is that he was molesting girls, not boys. One of his victims admits that she was told that they knew she was being abused but she was a girl. Had she been a boy, then it would have been obscene.

In the movie you can see that the priest’s mental capacity clearly did not develop beyond that of a 15-year-old boy. The movie goes into the physiological development of young boys while they are being trained for the priesthood and how that they were not exposed to or taught about sexuality properly. I believe they acknowledge the fact that what could have caused such a disproportional amount of paedophilia in priest’s vs another sample group of the public is that the last time these men remember being able to be freely sexual was as a young boy, before being brainwashed into believing that sex was a sin and that they would never marry. All the while possibly being molested themselves. It really was a breeding ground for paedophiles. The poisoned crop.

Another consideration was that 50 years ago young boys who showed signs of being gay were thrown into seminary school to ‘fix them’ and if not fix them, at least have them live an socially acceptable life while not having to marry a woman. The entire concept of a priest not being able to marry (which as I understand is not in the bible, it was a Vatican made rule) is the fatal flaw in this system. Even for men who entered the priesthood later as a young adult it was a perfect set up to not face society as a gay man. Really, what else would a man in any era before the 1980′s, who was not attracted to women, do to fit in with society and get away with not marrying and having a family? And being a priest they would not have had access to other gay men back then like any free gay man would today. But what they did have was power and influence over young alter servers. Talk about recipe for disaster.

I wonder if in 200 years students will be reading (or downloading into their brains) history texts about this period in Catholicism and ask “what were they thinking!?”, much in the way we today question events like the Salem Witchhunt or the Holocaust. I wonder…

Regardless of how I or others feel, I can’t imagine what its like for those who truly believe in the Catholic Church to be witnessing this. Because no matter how many of us disgruntled, open-minded Catholics or non-Catholics comment or rant, it doesn’t rock our belief structure or make us question our life’s purpose.

But imagine what a 70-year-old nun anywhere in the world would feel like today watching her whole life’s work turned into this?

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