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To: caww
I wasn't denying that priests represent Christ.

I was denying your bizarre assertion that because priests are human and some priests, being human, are bad, that the Catholic Church is therefore EVIL.

You remind me of those Westboro Baptist Church freaks.

Admit it... you're a Westboromite, aren't you?

116 posted on 02/13/2012 9:15:33 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (FOREIGN AID: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I stated...."..others don't claim to be Christ's Representatives either, as Catholicism claims their Priests are....and therein is the difference.

Your response was clearly....and twice no less...." No. No it doesn't."

So let's be clear about that.

Further let's just see what evil behaves like within the Priesthood and leadership......

"John Geoghan was engaging in oral sex with boys while instructing them to close their eyes and repetitively recite "Hail Marys,"..... Gauthe was forcing altar boys in Louisiana to repeatedly submit to and perform anal or oral intercourse with him – often molesting several boys in one family..... Estimates of the number of his victims, some of whom were as young as 7, ranged upwards of 100..... Geoghan swore boys to secrecy by telling them what they did was "confessional";... Gauthe, who often carried firearms, warned at least one boy that if he said anything Gauthe would harm his parents..... Inevitably, though, some of these boys did tell their parents. Diocesan authorities simply transferred him to another parish--and another, and another." Now this happened by just two of the many Priests now a matter of record. So yes, using your word, the church could be said as "evil" for enabling and assisting these criminals to continue their dastardly deeds.

119 posted on 02/13/2012 10:02:51 AM PST by caww
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