Originally Posted by damnage

Last time I looked, people WERE up in arms about the Catholic Church.


I also have to disagree totally with your statement about the Catholic church. Every organisation suffers from can colloquially be called the "bad eggs". Its natural that deviants such as the paedophiles in the Catholic Church would want to gravitate somewhere in a position of authority where they could get away with their acts.

Being part Irish I know exactly what I'm talking about in this respect. Traditionally in Ireland, priests, bishops etc had a TREMENDOUS amount of power. Its mind boggling just how much sway they had on a community. Such abuse would be easy to carry out.

Doesn't mean its' a problem with the religion, though looking back with the glories of hindsight it damn easy to be critical about the way it was treated, but a problem with people as a whole.

Other figures that compare to it...........abuse in other religions, institutional abuse (foster homes etc), adoption......The list goes on.


Fundamentally the Catholic Church has shaped where we are today. It has left an indelible mark on our entire society, a branch being protestantism, and has given us a society in which freedom is finally possible with or without religion.

Take a look in some middle eastern countries and suddenly Catholicism, with all its flaws and problems, suddenly doesn't look half as bad.