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I have an idea.
How about the pope turn over all the pedo priests? and all the evidence they’ve burried, too. And like. Let them have their day in court. Criminal. Court.
Oh. that’s right.
Fun fact, during the same trip he also mentioned that doctors assisting abortions are hired killers.
The Pope says condemn them, but don’t call the police.
clergy must obey civil reporting requirements where they live, and that their obligation to report to the church in no way interferes with that.
So why does their god allow paedos in holy positions?
Why does he allow them to exist in the first place? He created them and their thoughts.
Satan’s influence you say? So Satan is more powerful than god?
Can’t speak for everyone. But for myself, the world and humanity was created with free will and it’s up to us to choose good vs evil. God only has dominion over the heavenly afterlife and the hellish afterlife is forced to exist on the principle of yin and yang. There can be no good without evil.
For context I consider myself agnostic but was born roman Catholic and base my morals on the teachings that everyone was created equal and forgiveness should be shown to those that can be helped. Forgiveness isn’t a requirement in the cases that someone willingly chooses evil in the face of morality over and over. (Putin, Hitler, Trump, Netanyahu, serial violent criminals, etc.)
God: you have free will
Also God: you’d better make the choices I dictate or you’ll be punished eternally in the most unimaginable hellscape possible.
But for myself, the world and humanity was created with free will and it’s up to us to choose good vs evil.
That’s a terrible take: It implies that if you see something that you consider evil, you attribute it to choice, whereas the opposite is generally the case – once individuals have waded through layers of shit conditioning they are able to make choices that are actually attributable to them and not to society, upbringing, etc, and they very much do not choose evil. They might choose things that are inconvenient to others, or short-sighted, or unwise, but evil? That’s not just a different ballpark that’s a different game:
There can be no good without evil.
In other words: Noone, willingly, chooses imperfection. Minds, life, that would do so, would use its degrees of freedoms like that, would long have went the way of the dodo.
But even if we have free will to choose, God knows all. He exists in all space and time. He knows every freewill choice each person will make ahead of time. So he creates people knowing they are unavoidably destined for eternal agonising pain in hell.
And even if we make freewill choices, why doesn’t he intervene? A parent will stop a baby playing with a deadly sharp knife. But if the parent doesn’t see it happening, why doesn’t God jump in and do the right thing like the parent does?
Whoa whoa whoa let’s not get ahead of ourselves now. Let’s just start with not protecting men who fuck children.
