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  1. Autodidact

    why would anybody want to be catholic?

    btw, does the Bible command them to rape children? Why would preventing their priests from molesting children require them to deny the Bible?
  2. Autodidact

    why would anybody want to be catholic?

    It's either that or get out of every country that imposes the rule of law, starting with mine. If priests are immune from prosecution for their crimes, then priests should not be allowed to practice. I don't find it tough at all. Apparently subjecting priests to the law hurts Catholic faith...
  3. Autodidact

    why would anybody want to be catholic?

    No, not the entire Catholic persuasion, the Catholic Church, a huge, powerful, wealthy institution that put its resources and its power into defending and promoting child sexual abuse. Call me crazy, I think it should be held accountable for that. The Church should pay every judgment levied...
  4. Autodidact

    why would anybody want to be catholic?

    And the people who participated in the coverup and obstructed prosecution of the pedophiles, and who provided them access to a steady flow of victims.
  5. Autodidact

    So was God wrong?

    No, the general rule is, Do not murder. Obviously, when God commands you to kill, it's not murder. Yes, I follow. No matter how barbaric, how cruel, how shocking to me, an atheist, to you, a theist, if God commands it, that makes it right. So slavery is right. Infanticide is right. Genocide is...
  6. Autodidact

    So was God wrong?

    See my question? When the Bible says that God commanded the Hebrews to kill babies, it was wrong, but every statement about God's commandments is accurate. Say what? Do you need me to quote a few of the genocidal and infanticidal commandments?
  7. Autodidact

    So was God wrong?

    I thought you just said that when it says that God commanded the Hebrews to kill enemy's babies, it was not accurate. Now I'm confused.
  8. Autodidact

    why would anybody want to be catholic?

    It's not all or most Catholics. Ordinary Catholics had nothing to do with it. It's the Catholic Church--the institution.
  9. Autodidact

    Speciation

    I love it when you provide known loons and con men as sources. Let's look at wiki: Both scientists and creationists have criticized Baugh's claims. In 1982–1984, several scientists, including J.R. Cole, L.R. Godfrey, R.J. Hastings, and S.D. Schafersman, examined Baugh's purported "mantracks"...
  10. Autodidact

    So was God wrong?

    Does the OT contain any accurate statements about God's commandments?
  11. Autodidact

    So was God wrong?

    So do you think God did command these atrocities, or not?
  12. Autodidact

    So was God wrong?

    Why? .
  13. Autodidact

    So was God wrong?

    My question is, in your view, do these passages accurately record what happened?
  14. Autodidact

    So was God wrong?

    Then we probably don't have much to talk about in this thread. O.K., let's go with that. One should not kill babies as a general rule. In the OT, God commands His people to kill people as a general rule. Therefore, He should not have done that, correct? So the Torah position is that genocide...
  15. Autodidact

    So was God wrong?

    May I suggest you go back and read the passages in question? They weren't innocent casualties, they were deliberate. In one instance the Hebrew soldiers only killed all the men, and took the women prisoners. God became angry, and sent them back to kill all the little boy children. In most cases...
  16. Autodidact

    So was God wrong?

    Would you say those passages are inaccurate?
  17. Autodidact

    why would anybody want to be catholic?

    The church itself, the institution, the power structure, used its enormous power and wealth not to uncover the criminals and report them to the authorities, but to shield them from any consequences and provide them access to dozens of more victims. This happened all over the world, in every...
  18. Autodidact

    why would anybody want to be catholic?

    They don't have to do everything in their power to prevent criminal prosecution of crimes. And they don't have to refuse to compensate the victims until they get sued.
  19. Autodidact

    why would anybody want to be catholic?

    What should happen is, the authorities in charge should fire the perpetrator and report the crime to law enforcement authorities. The church instead hid the crime, transferred the offender, and refused to disclose their records to law enforcement. Thus they became complicit in the criminal...
  20. Autodidact

    why would anybody want to be catholic?

    Actually, the loudest screaming moral cries came from the poor Catholic victims. That's who has led this courageous fight to impose law on the Catholic Church.
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