Ghost of a Rider
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A hiring policy is not a doctrine. You're just being facetious anyway.
I'm hardly being facetious...
First, you eliminate anyone who already had healthy sex lives with your idiotic celibacy program.
Second, you create a system where they are all required to cover for each other.
Sorry, but you have displayed far too much biased contempt against Catholics and the church to take you seriously on the matter at this point. I'm aware there was pedophilia and that there was covering up and I agree that both of these things were wrong. But you have shown that you have a penchant for exaggeration, assumptive leaps and confusing correlation with causation.
How many years I went back is irrelevant.
It's completely relevent. The problem is you want to make the perfect the enemy of the Good.
The problem is you made two assertions that were false. I corrected you and there's nothing more to it than that.
I'd rather have one mass shooting a decade than one mass shooting a week.
Me too. Surprise, surprise.
And Cruz purchased his own weapons legally.
Exactly my point. He was batshit crazy and STILL able to buy a gun, because he lived in a Gun Nut state.
This was due to a failure of the system, not the existence of semiautomatic rifles.
Thing is, in the cases of both gun deaths and automobile deaths, both the gun and the automobile are just objects or tools. The one factor that contributes to deaths in both cases is behavior and intent.
Actually, not all the clergy are perverts. I know this, they know this and you know this.
You're oversimplifying again because you're too lazy to see the bigger picture.
I grew up Catholic. We really did know all the Clergy were perverts.
No you didn't. You assumed all the clergy were perverts because some were.
I would go a step further. Pre-1970 or so, when Little Timmy started singing show tunes or otherwise showed signs of being gay or some other "alternative lifestyle", they shipped his ass off to a seminary. So you essentially had an adult gay man whose sexual development stopped at 14 or so. Then you unleash him as an adult on a community, because he didn't find himself.
I've heard this theory before and I've no doubt there's some truth to it. But there is no way you can prove or reasonably claim that this was the case with all Catholic clergy. Some of these guys are genuine in their desire to serve God and the church. We probably both agree that the whole idea is silly but it is narrow minded hubris to assume that all of them are perverts or running from homosexual tendencies.