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subzero112001 t1_jdthlxa wrote

Reply to comment by HarryHacker42 in Defrocked Catholic priest accused of molesting a boy still runs charity for kids by kangarooturd

“There are decades of proof the Catholic Church hid pedophiles”

I never claimed that “the church never hid pedophiles.”

You’re trying to argue like it’s an all or nothing thing. It’s very possible for them to hide some pedophiles while turning others in. But you’re trying to act like they’ve never in the history of the church turned in a pedophile. You literally said “The church hasn’t been turning them in”.

“That is a written policy”

Oh? I’ve never heard of the Catholic policy of “We don’t turn in pedophiles”.

Source please?

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Harry_Gorilla t1_jdtg9ie wrote

Reply to TSA stirs debate after ruling peanut butter as a liquid by bwaredapenguin

Former screener here: peanut butter is approximately the same density as C4 when viewed on TSA’s X-ray screens. It sets off a false alarm on the automated bomb detection software, and the X-ray can’t see through it. You can hide whatever you want inside a peanut butter jar and it will be hidden from the X-ray operator (within certain size limitations).

They didn’t ban it for no reason.

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OmniGigaMiga t1_jdtflus wrote

Reply to comment by ktgrok in Defrocked Catholic priest accused of molesting a boy still runs charity for kids by kangarooturd

I don't really care about what some mildly redacted priest has to say about an allegation, religious leaders can barely solve what 1+1 is let alone whether or not someone is guilty of rape.

We use the law, if it cannot be proven that someone is guilty of a charge we cannot act as if they were.

A week ago or so I read a story of a man who lost his all of his friends and a good amount of his family over a false accusation. No one wanted to hear him because "accusation = guilty".

Now was his life destroyed? Probably not, but did he suffer greatly? Yeah... Yeah he probably did.

Some people could have their lives turned upside down over such a thing, it's not as easy as saying "hey we know you aren't guilty but you still can't be teacher, just in case". What if that was the only job he was good at or that made him happy, now he has to work as some janitor in a hospital or something? Nice, I'm sure thats a society that really cares about justice and law.

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sklos70 t1_jdtdwjr wrote

Reply to comment by Woffingshire in Joburg pastor still dead, despite entire year awaiting resurrection in morgue by mechsuit-jalapeno

Well I'm sure there have been plenty who have done it without being so narcissistic as to point to thematically and say "See? Control over death. My Dad is God". I reckon there are plenty of untapped and unaccredited performances in the bigger religions too like Islam, Hinduism, and the grandaddy of reincarnation claims, Buddhism.

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OmniGigaMiga t1_jdtdso5 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Defrocked Catholic priest accused of molesting a boy still runs charity for kids by kangarooturd

But I do condemn the church for having pedos. The difference is that no christian would EVER sit there and say that sexualized content is appropriate for elementary schoolers but a drag queen MIGHT.

For example, many people involved in Drag or support Drag have very loose interpretations on what is acceptable for children. There was recently a video of men in thongs twerking Infront of crowd of mothers holding their toddlers (if you don't believe this I can try to find it and link it, if they allow links).

Christian idealogy never leads them towards having men twerk Infront of children, you will NEVER hear of an event like that in the news but deep down everyone expects this to happen with relation to some sort of drag event.

When drag supports a very loose restriction on appropriate sexual content, it's far more damaging and honestly scary when children are involved. There's this perverted obsession in drag that constantly needs to show aspects of their sexuality to little children, not in a sense of "oh I'm a man married to a man" but imagery like that of twerking or being partially nude. This is why I fundamentally cannot view pedophilia in the church to the same degree as pedophilia in drag.

Even for drag queen story hours which tend to be pretty tame other than the weird man that looks clownish, the topic of sex is so focused in that it's creepy. I mean imagine a priest going around doing story hours where he constantly talks about the love of a man and women being together. While the material itself might not be that problematic, the intention of what leads a man with an obsession of teaching sexuality to children is the part that is gross.

I've never had a friend, or family member, or even stranger obsess and dedicate their lives to teaching sexuality to children... Drag queens are odd in that way and I would never let them anywhere near my younger siblings or any children I may have in the future.

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