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sapphi_snake said:
Galaki said:
sapphi_snake said:
FaRmLaNd said:

Just shows the hypocrisy that extreme religion almost always goes hand in hand with. This is no different from the many evangelical priests that have been found to be homosexual or sleeping with prostitutes and doing hard drugs etc. The more you idealise a general restriction of your most basic impulses the greater the risk of such hypocrisy.

Quite true. These people are all alike, regardless of what religion they may follow.

They are just taking advantage of the loopholes. Such as priests molesting young boys and get away with it.

Is there an actual loophole in christianity that says sex with little boys is OK for priests???

An interesting book to read is "The Case of the Pope" which looks at it from a legal perspective. It deals with how the Catholic church has attempted to keep it quiet, how confession and instant forgiveness has created a culture that can nurture priests that bugger boys and whether the Vatican is actually a state when any of the nominal international law standards that deal with the definition of a state are applied to it (the answer seems to be no, although the realpolitik is of course a yes since if every government thinks its a state then it is).

Its worth a read. Its written by Geoffrey Robertson.