Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, a special commission said…
”Reality is worse than what we present here today because not everyone shares such things automatically in a first contact with the commission,” he told reporters.
Adriaenssens, a child psychiatrist who has worked with trauma victims for 23 years, said nothing had prepared him for the stories of abuse that blighted the lives of victims.
”We don’t just talk about touching. We are talking about oral and anal abuse, forced masturbation and mutual masturbation. We talk about people who have gone through serious abuse,” Adriaenssens said…
The Vatican had no immediate comment.
Consider the ethics of an institution which sets itself up as a leading judge of everyone’s morality – historically incapable of ethical standards in day-to-day behavior.
Friday’s report said 507 witnesses came forward with stories of molestation at the hands of clergy over the past decades. It says those abused included children who were two, four, five and six years old.
Family members or friends said 13 victims committed suicide that ”was related to sexual abuse by clergy,” the report said. Six other witnesses said they had attempted suicide…
Lynn–don’t worry. Individuals can be idiotic and evil too, such does not require a group. Take your starting Soc 101 with a quote that on its own is meaningless and unrelated to anything else I can think of. Why do you do that? Think anything in Latin will wow the kiddies? Well, actually it does, but you really should up your game with other adults.
I won’t even quote whatever I said as my meaning was clear and correct: one on one belief in things supernatural is harmless enough but get 1 Billion of a like mind and it can be a source of evil. Now, you want to deconstruct that to I hate groups. Well, yes: I hate the evil that a group can do but I also realize that mans’ greatest accomplishments have been and will be the result of group activities. I didn’t say that as well because the subject of my discourse was not groups, but a specific instance of evil that groups can do. To that end, there is nothing “strange” in noting that religion/groups do great evil.
You see the difference.
Bobbo, by crom I doubt it. OK I’m’ done, I promise.
Bobbo, hope you see this even though this thread is done. I enjoy reading your opinions, much as I may disgree, when you express them without a lot of vituperation and agression, as in your last post. Because I am human, and nothing human is alien to me. And yes, I put it on the board in Latin to intrigue my students until I get to explaining it and how it connects to the sociological perspective. I just like to think outside the textbook.
Lynn–threads are done only when people stop replying. Vituperation and aggression? Its said often enough there must be “something” there. Yes, I do confront. Yes, I recognize that ideas actually result in action. When the results of action are very very bad to people, how mild should the words of confrontation be?
Well, real life requires moderate words, I find a few blogs to be a relief: to be uncensored. As interesting as why some people are vituperative and aggressive is why some people note it?
Considering many perspectives is the soul of erudition, the heart of wisdom. You might consider the value/venue of being vituperative and aggressive as I consider the opposite?
“You might consider the value/venue of being vituperative and aggressive as I consider the opposite?” – of course it has value at times. I just don’t really enjoy reading it. Simply a personal preference. Your opinions are more interesting to me than your attacks. Peace be with you today, Bobbo. Go right on being who you are.
Do any of us have any other real option?