There is a black guy on the list for pope, but he doesn't think that paedophilia happens in the African Catholic church because homosexuality is illegal there... Seriously.
So much ignorance in only one thread. I'm a very non-religious person and my views don't align with those of the Catholic Church but to assume that NO priest whatsoever became a priest because for devotion to God is an absolute exaggeration. I think there are many horrible perverted people in the church, like there are many horrible perverted people in a corporation or like there are many horrible perverted people in these forums or a hippie festival. No group of people will ever be excluded from the darker side of humanity, but that doesn't take away from the people who are pure and devoted. Do they have flaws like everyone else? yes. Maybe they have committed things they regret in their past? Who hasn't? It doesn't mean that they all rape little kids or they've murdered people and are escaping from that. People here have a wild imagination or that they are all gay (and I never knew that being homosexual made you a bad priest). I don't believe in celibacy and it's something that *I* wouldn't do, but I completely understand how a religious person, whether a priest or a monk chooses to practice it. It sounds like the assumptions and exaggerations on this thread have mostly been made by the "open minded" people. The best part was the graph with the IQ chart. Do people still care about IQ numbers? So, so silly. I've met some very unwise people with allegedly high IQs and I've met some very simple uneducated people who happened to be very in touch "with it" and understood. But whatever makes you feel better and makes you think that you're *right*.
Yeah, this thread is hilarious. It's like a microcosm of the ignorance of humanity. I like it though, I've enjoyed reading it.
I think the best post of this thread was deleted before I could quote it. Something about how running a hippie forum is living in a fantasy. I think that was the climax of the entire thing.
Being online in general is an escape from reality, just as nightclubs and video games are also escapes from reality. That is the way it is supposed to be.
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Perhaps faith in and joining a religion is not the same kind of escape from reality after all... (as for stating the obvious) I suppose the way it is supposed to be for you counts also for everyone else? How would it be if someone decided that for you huh... Yes yes, the church did that in the past, boohoo. So now you are doing the same.