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Hip to be square
Due to some confusion in R&S, I would like to explain the following: "Christian" is not defined as "someone who rejects evolution." "Christian" is not defined as "someone who is heterosexual." "Christian" is not defined as "someone who believes sexual orientation is a choice." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Q: What percentage of Catholic clergy are pedophiles? A: The John Jay study found that 4% of Catholic clergy have been accused of sexual abuse of a minor (link 1). That 4% was studied, and it was found that only 2.2% of the 4% “fit the definition of a pedophile” (link 2). 2.2% of 4% = 0.088% (which is less than 1/10th of 1%) 1) http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/churchstudy/_pdffiles/prev3.pdf 2) http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=244443
What things can we blame the Christians for?
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoNearly 99% of people with Down syndrome indicated that they were happy with their lives?
What's the best way to explain to them that people with handicaps cannot have happy lives and should have been ground into medical waste?
10 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoAre there secular Hanukkah songs, or is that an oxymoron?
4 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoIs everyone entitled to a fair trial except Catholic priests accused of child-molestation?
Just trying to understand the thumbs-down...
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoDo people suddenly agree with the Westboro Baptist Church when it comes to Catholicism?
From Wiki:
Westboro Baptist refers to Catholic priests as "vampires" and "Draculas" and talks of Catholic priests sucking semen out of male children's genitals like vampires suck blood from their victims. In addition, WBC calls Pope Benedict XVI such epithets as "The Godfather of Pedophiles" and "Pervert Pope". In April 2008 the WBC protested Pope Benedict XVI during a papal visit in New York City.
The WBC launched a website called Priests Rape Boys in which they criticize the Roman Catholic Church because of the Catholic sex abuse scandal, saying, "Every time any person gives any amount of money to the Catholic Church, that person is paying the salary of pedophile rapists."[65]
The WBC describes the Roman Catholic Church as, "the largest, most well-funded and organized pedophile group in the history of man"[66] and goes on to say that, "There are over 1 billion Catholics in the world—that's one out of every six people alive today—and every single one of them will split Hell wide open when they die—period. And there is nothing they can do about it."[65]
The WBC also criticizes Catholicism, as it does Eastern Orthodoxy, for venerating the Virgin Mary, the Saints, relics, and icons; accusing the Catholic Church of committing idolatry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_baptist_chur...
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I've seen these views expressed on R&S many times.
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoA lot of women have killed their offspring. Shouldn't it be safe and legal...?
...so these women's lives aren't ruined?
California mom accused of killing baby in microwave
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43488558/ns/us_news-cr...
Mom killed baby in a drunken rage, then strapped him in a BabyBjorn and went shopping
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-06-30/news/29...
Jacksonville mom shakes baby for interrupting FarmVille
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoHow often are Protestants allowed to recite the Lord's Prayer...?
...before Jesus smites them for engaging in "vain repetition"?
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoWhy do people think Hitler is the ultimate in evil when Stalin killed more people in less time?
Question inspired by all the mentions of Hitler here:
15 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoDo you delight in telling schoolchildren the sexual interests of historical figures?
Or does that strike you as creepy and perverted?
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoAre there any marriages you wouldn't recognize?
For example, if you refuse to recognize the marriage between Sharon Tendler and her dolphin spouse Cindy on the grounds it does not meet your understanding of marriage, but then a government (not necessarily your own) did so, would you change your mind and accept their marriage as real and true?
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoIsn't it unreasonable to expect science teachers to accept and teach evolution?
Shouldn't they be free to believe and teach whatever they want?
15 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoMisspell "Christians" and your question remains; merely ASK about misspelling "Jews"...?
...and your question is deleted? Who can explain this double standard?
6 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoAbortion advice (20 characters, blah, blah, blah)?
Your friend has conceived a baby out of wedlock. Genetic testing reveals the baby will have lots of health problems and will die relatively young. She asks for your opinion on aborting the pregnancy. What do you say?
25 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoAre you for marriage equality?
Should pedophiles be able to marry children?
8 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoWho do you believe more... Julia Child or Martha Graham?
1 AnswerReligion & Spirituality10 years agoWhy doesn't the state allow siblings to marry?
And don't say because of birth defects. Marriage does not mean that you must have a child. Marriage means that you want to be with the person you love for the rest of your life.
9 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoThe Tea Party summer camp has been likened to the Hitler Youth?
Would a shooting make it less like the Hitler Youth, or would a shooting be completely irrelevant to the question of whether or not it is like the Hitler Youth?
9 AnswersPolitics10 years ago