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Church knew about abuse endemic.
Link.
The article goes on to talk about how some children were ritually beaten and how girls under the care of the sisters of mercy suffered "frequent assaults and humiliation designed to make them feel worthless".
So catholics....
Perhaps if these church elders were permitted greater sexual freedoms they would lack the desire to sexually abuse children.
Maybe, but that doesn't explain away the ritual beatings or the desire to make children feel worthless.
It also doesn't address why other members of the church chose to cover it up, is that what Jesus would do?
Yeah I know. It was a dig at the church is all.
I actually know an older woman who was raised with her sisters by nuns and suffered terrible abuse. The funny thing is, she is still a practicing Catholic who attends mass with my mother.
I still put it down to sexual frustration or maybe brainwashed violence and indoctrination in order to communicate the message of the church to the children. Putting 'the fear of God' into someone is arguably an effective way of channeling your ideas. Religious groups have practiced it for centuries.
I wasn't being confrontational. I just can't accept that sexual frustration is what lead these priests and nuns to abuse the children they were supposed to care for. I get sexually frustrated sometimes, it usually ends up with me having sex with my palm, I certainly don't get an urge to abuse people.
The "putting the fear of God" into someone is definitely a more plausable explanation for the beatings and humiliation, IMO.
Another drop in the bucket. The hypocrisy of religious institutions, as well as their barbarous and heinous activities, will continue to surface so long as they continue to exist.
Just keep throwing the information out there.
- August
If we have no business with the construction of the future or with organizing it for all time, there can still be no doubt about the task confronting us at present: the ruthless criticism of the existing order, ruthless in that it will shrink neither from its own discoveries, nor from conflict with the powers that be.
- Karl Marx
Religion (particularly in the west) is at it's core the systematic repression of doubt to sustain the credibility of a belief that is realistically utterly incredible.
One of the main reasons an institution (a church for example) "must" uphold this belief is because it enables them to influence behavior by declaring some things taboo/sinful/shameful.
Have you ever tried to convince a child of anything perfectly rational that I doesn't want to accept? It can be highly fustrating to say the least.
Now imagine trying to convince this stubborn child of something so wildly implausible that many adults view it as bullshit. That's why Catholics hit kids.
I am Dyslexic. Thank you Precy & Dr. W. Pringle Morgan for Congential Word Blindness!It's not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance[…] In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation.
The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over [an enemy] but to keep the very structure of society intact.
Loosely attributed to - Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell)
