Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church

[chriscorey]

okay Im getting drawn into this stupid fucking conversation again, but okay.



Right. This sounds like actually a pretty ill conceived thought. I'm surprised this is coming from a University website. What's with this "of course not"? There is no back up statement, its just a pure hypothesis statement disconnected and without any argumentation. Yup, yup, very convincing.



I can understand this. Stands to reason. I think the clergy are held to the highest standard, and make the headlines even more as they are supposed to be above these worldly issues.



Not much to say here. But I wonder, what is this "situational generalist" thing, if not a crime of opportunities? You are saying that predators are premeditating their advancement into the clergy, and maybe that is going on, but it seems that they are mostly doing these crimes because the opportunity is arising.



Good. But I think society has swung the other way now. Its starting to assume all men are predators until proven innocent. Can male role models even exist nowadays with out assuming they are some kind of sexual predator in waiting?

There's no proven evidence to suggest celibacy turns people into pedophiles. It's silly to think people who are sexually attracted to the adult human form suddenly morph into pedophiles. That they lose all morals and start fucking kids. They'd masturbate or seek out other adults to have sex with before hurting a child. Pedophilia is classified as a mental disorder and nowhere does it say it can be caused by celibacy. And I'm not just talking about the clergy, I'm talking about any person who decides to be celibate.

Not only are you suggesting that celibacy can cause a mental disorder, you're also suggesting people lose all morals due to celibacy. There's no scientific evidence to back this.

It's a very dark way to see humanity(for me at least) and we're going to have to agree to disagree.