Your points about the Catholic Church during the time of the Nazis were a really good read, and an important perspective. I would have loved to have your sources in there, though, if only so that the next time I see that argument about the RCC I can not merely repeat what you said but actually link to new information.
I do find it curious that you blame the pervasive sheltering of pedophiles within the Catholic church on secular culture, when it's the religious nature of the organization that protects it from the kind of accountability that, say, the ASPCA or the Red Cross would have if it developed the same reputation for aiding and abetting pedophiles. When the organization punishes priests more harshly for wanting to ordain women than for molesting local children, I think we have a problem with the actual priorities of the organization itself for which we can't just shift accountability away.
Furthermore, I wonder what indigenous populations would think of your assertion that secular culture is to blame for the allegedly quite recent pattern of pedophile sheltering when for the last several decades their communities are the ones that pedophile priests have been relocated to, so that they'll only be victimizing communities nobody really cares about.
Yes, our current affection for sexualizing children in modern media is completely inappropriate and I cannot really make any excuses for it. However, it's not new, either. I find it really hard to believe that nobody was raping children in the days when it was widely considered acceptable to be married to one (or two, or more).
It is one thing to look at the rampant callous and indeed criminal behavior of the Catholic Church where ordained pedophiles are concerned and say, "They are fucking up, but this is a symptom of a broader cultural problem that they are both a result of and perpetuating," and quite another to say, "The Catholic Church has some problems, okay, but overall they're a good organization and if they become an international pedophile cartel, well I think we should consider how that might be everybody else's fault," which is what this really comes off as.
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I do find it curious that you blame the pervasive sheltering of pedophiles within the Catholic church on secular culture, when it's the religious nature of the organization that protects it from the kind of accountability that, say, the ASPCA or the Red Cross would have if it developed the same reputation for aiding and abetting pedophiles. When the organization punishes priests more harshly for wanting to ordain women than for molesting local children, I think we have a problem with the actual priorities of the organization itself for which we can't just shift accountability away.
Furthermore, I wonder what indigenous populations would think of your assertion that secular culture is to blame for the allegedly quite recent pattern of pedophile sheltering when for the last several decades their communities are the ones that pedophile priests have been relocated to, so that they'll only be victimizing communities nobody really cares about.
Yes, our current affection for sexualizing children in modern media is completely inappropriate and I cannot really make any excuses for it. However, it's not new, either. I find it really hard to believe that nobody was raping children in the days when it was widely considered acceptable to be married to one (or two, or more).
It is one thing to look at the rampant callous and indeed criminal behavior of the Catholic Church where ordained pedophiles are concerned and say, "They are fucking up, but this is a symptom of a broader cultural problem that they are both a result of and perpetuating," and quite another to say, "The Catholic Church has some problems, okay, but overall they're a good organization and if they become an international pedophile cartel, well I think we should consider how that might be everybody else's fault," which is what this really comes off as.