re: #148 eclectic infidel

I don’t care what excuse you give for the RCC’s recent wave of f*cked up behavior. Banishment? Banishment!?! What are you going on about? Punishment, yes, definitely that. The kind of punishment that results in hard jail time for decades on end. Maybe even for life if that can be legally arranged.

Develop them as people. That is such a terrible excuse, reine. If the Church was trying to develop them, they would have turned them in to the law. You know, there’s that commandment that reads, “Thou shalt not lie.”

Maybe another commandment is needed that reads “Thou shalt not molest thy parishioners’ children.” Once the RCC cleans house, which it probably won’t.

The quote in my lgf profile doesn’t apply to this situation.

-1 for you.

In case you don’t recall it, here is your profile quote:

“It is not acceptable to have a religion where the alternative to faith is punishment — that’s how you train dogs, not develop people.” - Deng Ming-Dao

THAT’s where the “developing them as people” comes from.