ptgatsby
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Unkind but true.
And they have a lot to be obnoxious about such the report of Ireland's Commission into Child Abuse.
The 2600-page report by Ireland's Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse found rape was endemic in more than 250 Irish-Catholic care institutions from the 1930s to the 1990s, and the church protected pedophiles from prosecution.
The funny thing is that I don't see this as a particularly'bad' thing for religion... not as a belief system. It's an organization issue - give power, especially moral power, to a body politic and it tends to follow its baser nature.
What I do find frustrating is the "my religion/church could never be like...", despite so many religions being like that. Course, you can replace that with government/etc, but the central point is that it isn't special. The behavior tends to be very much the same.