{"tag":"evil","articles":{"blog\/mythology\/pope-francis-i-pinky-swear-i-won-t-be-a-criminal-anymore":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/pope-francis-i-pinky-swear-i-won-t-be-a-criminal-anymore","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2018-08-20T19:50:53+02:00","publishedAt":"2018-08-20T19:46:00+02:00","group":"pedo-church","category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"pope-francis-i-pinky-swear-i-won-t-be-a-criminal-anymore"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"pope-francis-i-pinky-swear-i-won-t-be-a-criminal-anymore","title":"Pope Francis: I pinky swear, I won\u0027t be a criminal anymore!","intro":"\u003Cp\u003EPope Francis wrote \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2018-08\/pope-francis-letter-people-of-god-sexual-abuse.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E a letter to all Catholics\u003C\/a\u003E, in which he vows no more sexual abuse cover-ups. Cool... So when pope does it, it\u2019s called \u201ca Letter to the People of God\u201d? If I vowed not to cover for criminals, it would be called \u201cbasic human decency\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cp\u003EPope Francis wrote \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2018-08\/pope-francis-letter-people-of-god-sexual-abuse.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E a letter to all Catholics\u003C\/a\u003E, in which he vows no more sexual abuse cover-ups. Cool... So when pope does it, it\u2019s called \u201ca Letter to the People of God\u201d? If I vowed not to cover for criminals, it would be called \u201cbasic human decency\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYeah, nice, you \u201cwon\u2019t spare effort to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening, but also to prevent the possibility of their being covered up and perpetuated\u201d. Let\u2019s be generous and believe you that you really mean it, and that somehow it\u2019s gonna work out... What about all those predators and all those guilty of being an accessory in their crime (including yourself), who have already committed their atrocities? No big words about them, huh? About giving them away? About helping the prosecution?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd most importantly: what about the victims? Saying \u201csorry\u201d and praying for them doesn\u2019t mean shit. Your Church has thought me about the \u201c5 conditions for a good confession\u201d \u2013 wasn\u2019t the last one about reparation? Do fucking \u003Cem\u003Eanything meaningful\u003C\/em\u003E to help all those people who  your Church has hurt over the decades!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, you\u2019re supposed to honestly admit your guilt. Have you? Have you really? You\u2019re saying that \u201can ecclesial community\u201d was \u201cnot where we should have been\u201d. It was not a damn \u201ccommunity\u201d, it was particular priests and bishops raping innocent children, and it was particular bishops and popes who were covering it up, in a manner that would put them in jail if only they were lay people! You\u2019re blurring the responsibility, blaming all the scandals on \u201cthe community\u201d or \u201cthe culture\u201d... You make me sick!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYou\u2019re writing this letter as a response \u201cto new reports of clerical sexual abuse and the ecclesial cover-up of abuse\u201d. To the \u003Cem\u003Ereports\u003C\/em\u003E! You\u2019re not responding to the abuse itself. You\u2019re just scared that your buddies got caught! It\u2019s not regret, it\u2019s damage control. There\u2019s no way you didn\u2019t know about the whole thing in advance.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHardly any other crime is as repulsive and as hurtful as child abuse. Covering up the crimes of pedophiles is just as evil. Every week the public learns about more and more cases, sees more and more evidence that the Catholic Church is basically a huge gang of pedophiles and pedophile-helpers!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYet somehow it still has over 1.1 billion members worldwide! How the hell is that possible? Do people have absolutely no conscience to tell them that legitimising such a criminal organisation is plain evil? How can they sleep at night, knowing that their collection money might be being spent on moving pedophiles around?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESeriously, dear Catholics, how do you justify being a part of that?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["abuse","catholic church","child abuse","criminal","evil","pedofilia","pope","religion"],"hasMore":true,"image":null,"introLite":"\u003Cp\u003EPope Francis wrote \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2018-08\/pope-francis-letter-people-of-god-sexual-abuse.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E a letter to all Catholics\u003C\/a\u003E, in which he vows no more sexual abuse cover-ups. Cool... So when pope does it, it\u2019s called \u201ca Letter to the People of God\u201d? If I vowed not to cover for criminals, it would be called \u201cbasic human decency\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cp\u003EPope Francis wrote \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2018-08\/pope-francis-letter-people-of-god-sexual-abuse.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E a letter to all Catholics\u003C\/a\u003E, in which he vows no more sexual abuse cover-ups. Cool... So when pope does it, it\u2019s called \u201ca Letter to the People of God\u201d? If I vowed not to cover for criminals, it would be called \u201cbasic human decency\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYeah, nice, you \u201cwon\u2019t spare effort to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening, but also to prevent the possibility of their being covered up and perpetuated\u201d. Let\u2019s be generous and believe you that you really mean it, and that somehow it\u2019s gonna work out... What about all those predators and all those guilty of being an accessory in their crime (including yourself), who have already committed their atrocities? No big words about them, huh? About giving them away? About helping the prosecution?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd most importantly: what about the victims? Saying \u201csorry\u201d and praying for them doesn\u2019t mean shit. Your Church has thought me about the \u201c5 conditions for a good confession\u201d \u2013 wasn\u2019t the last one about reparation? Do fucking \u003Cem\u003Eanything meaningful\u003C\/em\u003E to help all those people who  your Church has hurt over the decades!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, you\u2019re supposed to honestly admit your guilt. Have you? Have you really? You\u2019re saying that \u201can ecclesial community\u201d was \u201cnot where we should have been\u201d. It was not a damn \u201ccommunity\u201d, it was particular priests and bishops raping innocent children, and it was particular bishops and popes who were covering it up, in a manner that would put them in jail if only they were lay people! You\u2019re blurring the responsibility, blaming all the scandals on \u201cthe community\u201d or \u201cthe culture\u201d... You make me sick!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYou\u2019re writing this letter as a response \u201cto new reports of clerical sexual abuse and the ecclesial cover-up of abuse\u201d. To the \u003Cem\u003Ereports\u003C\/em\u003E! You\u2019re not responding to the abuse itself. You\u2019re just scared that your buddies got caught! It\u2019s not regret, it\u2019s damage control. There\u2019s no way you didn\u2019t know about the whole thing in advance.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHardly any other crime is as repulsive and as hurtful as child abuse. Covering up the crimes of pedophiles is just as evil. Every week the public learns about more and more cases, sees more and more evidence that the Catholic Church is basically a huge gang of pedophiles and pedophile-helpers!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYet somehow it still has over 1.1 billion members worldwide! How the hell is that possible? Do people have absolutely no conscience to tell them that legitimising such a criminal organisation is plain evil? How can they sleep at night, knowing that their collection money might be being spent on moving pedophiles around?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESeriously, dear Catholics, how do you justify being a part of that?\u003C\/p\u003E","words":457,"readTime":2,"lang":"en"}}},"blog\/mythology\/if-god-existed-the-catholic-church-wouldn-t":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/if-god-existed-the-catholic-church-wouldn-t","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2018-08-15T23:28:09+02:00","publishedAt":"2018-08-15T23:26:00+02:00","group":null,"category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"if-god-existed-the-catholic-church-wouldn-t"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"if-god-existed-the-catholic-church-wouldn-t","title":"If God existed, the Catholic Church wouldn\u0027t.","intro":"\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: 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They\u2019re just manipulating you by dictating some rectum-derived set of rules that are impossible to fully follow, and simultaneously selling you \u201csalvation\u201d \u2013 a cure for the disease they\u2019ve made up. They keep adjusting those rules to whatever works better at the time. We wanna own slaves? Yeah, yeah, god said it\u2019s fine. Everybody starts treating slaves as people and it\u2019s now perceived inhumane to support slavery? Well of course god doesn\u2019t support it either!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESin\u003C\/em\u003E is just a set of rules made up by manipulative men, but masquerading as divine. It\u2019s a tool to make you feel unjustifiably guilty about being a human. They aren\u2019t even secretive about it! 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