Perhaps once, you could argue your position instead of putting your head in the sand?
Posted on 05/21/2010 9:19:42 AM PDT by TSgt
Full of expletives? BS is an expletive to your virgin ears? It’s an apt descriptor of the garbage you post.
“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.” — Lord Chesterfield
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. "...men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
pissant, considering your affinity for words such as “bunghole” perhaps you should go back to watching Beavis and Butt-head in your mother’s basement instead of participating on this forum?
I find it amusing that they refuse to argue their position and prefer to ignore the thread.
IGNORE - Isn’t that Ratzinger’s MO?
When you find a decent defense for Ratzinger’s crimes, let us know.
Yep. They love the darkness because...
Perhaps you should not blame the anti-homosexual, anti-child abuse Pope for the sins of others. Perhaps you should worry about other molesters in addition to Catholic priests.
Here, I’ll help you out:
Two men say pastor abused them at Fairfax church in the 1990s
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/06/AR2010050605772.html
Pastor pleads guilty to sex charges
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/94278934.html
Md. Pastor Faces Additional Abuse Charges
Detroit Pastor Faces 6 Counts of Sexual Misconduct for Molesting Boy
Prestonwood Baptist minister arrested in sex sting
SC Baptist Pastor Arrested For Sending Explicit Text Message
http://vodpod.com/watch/3322460-sc-baptist-pastor-arrested-for-sending-explicit-text-message
Pastor Arrested for Molestation
http://new.exchristian.net/2010/02/pastor-arrested-for-molestation.html
Police: Youth minister accused of sex misconduct made threats
http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=10239475
Florence County pastor jailed on molestation charges
http://www.carolinalive.com/news/story.aspx?id=417655
There is no crimes by Ratzinger. But you can pretend all you want. Maybe the NY Times can interview you about it.
FRegards to Alex Murphy for his research and analysis below.
Original Link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2516707/posts?page=95#95
There’s an old political adage that says “you can’t beat something with nothing”. As to claims of abuse being more prevalent within one organization or another, those aren’t statements of opinionated bias - those are statements that someone can actually prove (or disprove) with math. And to date, I’ve never seen a Catholic do the math. But I have seen a number of Catholics make unsubstantiated claims that abuse rates are two...three...sometimes even a hundred times worse in Protestant churches than in Catholic ones. Does that make them “atheist haters of God”?
The John Jay Study (see threads here, here, and outside coverage here) - commissioned by the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ National Review Board itself - found that the number of accused Catholic priest abusers equaled four percent of the entire Catholic priest population. The John Jay study’s findings are more than conclusive - they’re exhaustive of the entire US population of Catholic priests. Surely you’re not suggesting that the New York Times would be as more reliable source of information than the John Jay Study?
As I’ve said elsewhere, every study I’ve been shown of “Protestant” abuse (which include many of the websites your Google search links to) included volunteers and laypersons. The John Jay Study did not address these groups when they looked at Catholic parishes. If we exclude volunteers and laypersons from the “Protestant” studies (thereby creating a “pastor vs priest” apple-to-apple comparison), we arrive at a roughly 1% abuse rate for all “Protestant” pastors, or (in other words) at least a four times greater likelihood that any given Catholic priest will be a sexual predator, as compared to any given “Protestant” pastor. And that’s according to the numbers and studies that Catholics keep telling me about.
Let me throw in one caveat to those comparisons. I found something interesting when I broke down the “Protestant” abuse cases by denomination / affiliation / theological leanings. The more free will / Arminian / synergistic the theology is, and the more independent the association is (as opposed to denominational affiliation), the higher the abuse statistic goes - and conversely, if you just look at the Reformed Protestant denominations, the number of “Protestant” abuse cases statistically drops off the chart by comparison. It’s only the average of all “Protestant” pastors that is around 1%. Some independent churches have statistics that are far, far higher than the Catholic average of 4%.
— Alex Murphy, April 2, 2008
“(S)hould denominational ratios be skewed by independent ratios?”....AFAIK, no one has ever attempted to quantify abuse statistics to show where abuse runs high (or low) among Protestant, Evangelical, and Independent church leadership. My attempts appear to be the first. And I would agree with you that we should compare apples to apples by keeping it ratios to ratios, and not raw numbers to raw numbers. See especially the thread Teachers Vs. Priests - Unequal Treatment In the Media? in which I say
While 25,000 hypothesized “accusations” is roughly six times the number of Catholic “accusations”, 25,000 cases out of 1,600,000 teachers gives us a 1.3 to 1.56% ratio of sexually abusive teachers out of the entire public school system over a fifty year period - more than twice the volume of Protestant pastoral abuse, and less than half the volume of Catholic priest abuse.
If we’re after equal treatment in the media, I would expect there to be at least double the number of Catholic news stories as Public School stories, and four times as many Catholic news stories as Protestant news stories based on the percentage of perverts that exist with their respective organizations. IMO the disproportionate amount of coverage is the result of increased interest, when those organizations are caught protecting the abusers at the expense of the victims.
— Alex Murphy, April 2, 2008
It is not sexual misconduct, rather it is sexual assault, that Catholic priests were accused of in the John Jay Study. The topic isn’t “who’s accused of sexual misconduct”, it’s “who’s accused of committing a felony against a minor”....Should I consider the intentional conflation of “statutory rape” with “sexual misconduct” to be deflecting attention? Damn straight I do, skippy....Of the 38% of all Protestant clergy being accused of some level of inappropriate sexual contact, only 4.6% have engaged in actual sexual intercourse outside of marriage. And none of them of rape.
If the Catholic apologist were really comparing apples to apples, the real statistics would speak of Protestant clergy accused of criminal sexual contact with minors, or would adjust the John Jay study’s four percent upwards to include inappropriate but otherwise legal sexual relations. But the Catholic apologist does no such thing. They start with John Jay’s 4%, move on to Protestantism’s 38%, and leave the reader thinking that 4% “statutory rape” is comparable to 38% “inappropriate relations”. Sometimes you have to keep score, to tell when the other side is moving the goalposts on you.
— Alex Murphy, September 29, 2009
“...the scandal was never really about the 4% abusers in their ranks. The real scandal was that 66% of bishops covered for the 4%, negatively affecting 95% of the dioceses in the United States - actions which cost the Catholic Church over three billion dollars paid in settlements and awards to the victims.”
— Alex Murphy, September 29, 2009
Let me “defend my position”, MENSA, with this: You are pimp pushing an article centered around a very low life scumbag lawyer named Robert Reardon.
Robert Reardon, a grandstanding anti papist and democrat activist. He lied throough his marxist teeth about the Pope’s role in the Milwaukee case, as has been pointed out to you and your NY Times loving compadres many, many times with peices like this:
Reports blaming Pope for mishandled sex abuse case are inaccurate, Church judge reveals
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2483388/posts
Yet this garbage you posted, another monument to your hero Reardon, has this in it:
“The revelation of the Ratzinger letter comes as the pope faces recent accusations that he had information about the sexual abuse of deaf children by a Wisconsin priest when he headed the Vatican office that decides whether priests should face canonical trials. As in Shea’s case, no trial took place in the Wisconsin case”.
Utter garbage, punk.
You can bring in all the anti-catholic morons you’d like
I’ts real classy to be pushing a democrat activist, anti-papist shyster on FR. Good work.
Let me make this easy so even you can understand.
The article contains facts. Please tell me which facts are false and why?
Hitler could be the author, that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
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Post 32 is my post genius.
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