Denam8487 said:
The fastest way I've shut up leftists who say that the Catholic Church has no authority on sexual morality because of the priests molesting boys is to tell them that the pedo priests were all gay and that's why they engaged in sexual acts with young teenage boys.
Yes, spot on. But also to point out that the Catholic Church is not the only institution that has this problem. The boy scouts are bankrupt because of all the molestation scandals they've had to deal with. Several other religious denominations have this issue too. I think the biggest source of child molestation is the public school system and it is. An immediate question is why so much attention to the Catholic Church? That's not to excuse pedophilia/pederasty etc, certainly not, but, when you account for all the other institutions we must question why the Church is singled out? I think the answer is obvious because the radical left hates God. What troubles me is this subterfuge convinces many to see this as a Church problem and that's wrong for many reasons. 1. because its never right to pin the blame on one group when all the others are doing it, but far worse is 2. its obscures the truth of the matter, which is we have a systematic pedophilia problem in society. I think the evidence speaks for itself, where ever there are young kids, these monsters will go. So, as it pertains to the Catholic Church, its a matter of adjusting their recruiting standards and better vetting individuals that are joining the priesthood just to access kids. Frankly, I think the Church has done a great job at this. If we hear about molestation incidents its from decades ago.
Far worse is the fact that the Catholic Church is the monolith that stands against sexual perversion, which very much includes pedophilia. Again, there's a disgusting ruse playing out here that is simply intolerable. The very same people who seek out the obscure priest, ignoring all the other institutions where this is common, are the very same people who are pushing for the normalization of pedophilia. We all know it, and its no conspiracy. Its frequent to hear from academia overtures about the legitimacy of pedophilia. Just recently yet another "professor" openly and unabashedly declared having sex with infants is okay. Yeah, they get punished, but, we all know the agenda. Its always been about making pedophilia okay.
This really gets to me. The Church had a corruption problem. It was grotesque and odious, for sure, but, it wasn't as if the Church on a doctrinal level was pushing for this. Its the complete opposite. Jesus was very clear regarding those that harm (sexually) kids, that they should be thrown into the ocean with a millstone around their neck. Again, the Church is the monolith against this. Whereas, the secular "religion" of the woke or progressivism etc, does, on a doctrinal, level push for this. That's a very key component of our defense and we'd be wise to use it against secular detractors.