Organization tries to get the Hague to try the Catholic Church for crimes against humanity

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I do agree something should be done, but I think this is a bit too radical. Honestly, how much does the gov't cover up or even big business that are just as destructive to peoples lives...should that not also be pursued in the same manner?

Of course all those should be pursued. Radical? I don't believe it to be radical to demand justice on people who are responsible for the act of or the cover up of things like countless children being raped or a financial crisis being arranged or pretenses for war being complete lies. That you want to see the people responsible for these crimes that have negatively affected MILLIONS of lives exposed should not be seen as the problem. The problem is that it's unrealistic to win anything like that because of who you are up against. Good luck trying to fight an institution, be it the U.S government or Vatican or big business, that has their kind of power and near unlimited resources. No matter what you have on them, more than likely it won't matter, because they aren't the same as you and me.



But now it's a slippery slope to call out the Pope on the raping of countless children? The real slippery slope was to allow the Church be given it's own standard, of which they punish who they see fit. Little too late to change that now, already have decades worth of violated kids to attest to that little mistake. Like it said in that article, they live by their own law.

 

[BiscuitintheBasket]

Of course all those should be pursued. Radical? I don't believe it to be radical to demand justice on people who are responsible for the act of or the cover up of things like countless children being raped or a financial crisis being arranged or pretenses for war being complete lies. That you want to see the people responsible for these crimes that have negatively affected MILLIONS of lives exposed should not be seen as the problem. The problem is that it's unrealistic to win anything like that because of who you are up against. Good luck trying to fight an institution, be it the U.S government or Vatican or big business, that has their kind of power and near unlimited resources. No matter what you have on them, more than likely it won't matter, because they aren't the same as you and me.



But now it's a slippery slope to call out the Pope on the raping of countless children? The real slippery slope was to allow the Church be given it's own standard, of which they punish who they see fit. Little too late to change that now, already have decades worth of violated kids to attest to that little mistake. Like it said in that article, they live by their own law.

Thank you for dropping my second paragraph and responding to me with what it essentially meant in the full context of my post.

 

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Ahahah, wow, yeah. Never mind that part then.

 

[LordKOTL]

Of course all those should be pursued. Radical? I don't believe it to be radical to demand justice on people who are responsible for the act of or the cover up of things like countless children being raped or a financial crisis being arranged or pretenses for war being complete lies. That you want to see the people responsible for these crimes that have negatively affected MILLIONS of lives exposed should not be seen as the problem. The problem is that it's unrealistic to win anything like that because of who you are up against. Good luck trying to fight an institution, be it the U.S government or Vatican or big business, that has their kind of power and near unlimited resources. No matter what you have on them, more than likely it won't matter, because they aren't the same as you and me.



But now it's a slippery slope to call out the Pope on the raping of countless children? The real slippery slope was to allow the Church be given it's own standard, of which they punish who they see fit. Little too late to change that now, already have decades worth of violated kids to attest to that little mistake. Like it said in that article, they live by their own law.

Bingo, except I don't think that it is "too late". I think if we're really serious about cracking down on this that the clergy would be held to the same standard as everyone else (after all, they are only human, just like everyone else), and that's that. Father O'Donnelly decides to diddle little Debbie, fine, he goes to prison and gets boofed by bubba just like a normal pedophile.



Honestly, the only reason I think this hasn't been done is that religion en masse has people brainwashed too much to think that holding the clergy to the same standard as normal people will somehow ruin an afterlife bid, or that enactinc such a policy will mean a politician loses the brainwashed religious vote.

 

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Too late in the sense that the damage has already been done.