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Hi Artemis, I dunno. Perhaps they could call the police? Instead of covering it up and then protecting and enabling the abuser by moving him on to new parish and a new set of victims. As the Catholic Church has done in the past.I think that the main point to be understood here is not so much that abuse took place, but that the Church did so little to stop it and in fact made it worse. They should have called in the appropriate authorities, but instead, they chose to cover their own sanctimonious asses.I am angry about the abuse, but I am fucking livid about the cover up and I think that a lot of Catholics feel the same way. Thousands of sincere Catholics placed that which was most precious to them, their children, into the Church's care and the Church rewarded that trust with utter contempt.Mutate and Survive

AZPaul3 was merely engaging in legitimate satire. At no point did he say or even imply that all Catholics, or even all Catholic priests are rapists. You are being over-sensitive, especially in light of the fact that you yourself have told some rather close-to-the-knuckle jokes around here before now.The Catholic church has invited this kind of satire. It has only itself to blame. If you don't like it, blame the church for creating this shit storm. I think that Dr A answered this better than I could have in his reply, as well as coining the word "deblackinate". Nice. I want a deblackinator ray gun and I want one now! Not sure who I want to use it on or why, but still...Suffice to say that if blacks were one monolithic organisation and they behaved as the church has done, they would have no cause for complaint when they became the targets of legitimate satire. Now I didn't say anything. Please try to remember that AZPaul and I are separate people.Mutate and Survive

Oh look, I was right. What a shock. Funny how could see that and you couldn't. Do you not think that there is even a possibility that you over-reacted? He made the exact point I would have made. I said that I agreed. I write what I please in my own posts thank you. You really are clutching at straws now.You "black" analogy was seriously flawed. Live with it. Yes, because I disagreed with your criticism. Nonetheless, I didn't disparage anyone, although I will if you insist. When you apparently get mixed up about who said what, it makes it look as though you aren't paying attention that's all. Oh look, more stuff you made up. I never disparaged anyone and, as matter of fact, the post you originally objected to made it perfectly clear that not all priests were at fault. What you are taking offence at seems to be largely in your own imagination.Might I suggest that you save your ire for those who deserve it; like child raping priests and their cronies perhaps? Because if you are this pissed off about one little comment on a message board, I'm surprised that you're not angrier about the thousands of rapes and subsequent cover up.Mutate and Survive

So you decided not to address the argument at all this time, even reducing yourself to taking pot-shots at my signature. The dazzling hypocrisy of you, of all people, taking offence at what you regard as an off-colour remark, is somewhat obscuring your point. I got defensive because you implied that I said something that I did not say. Yeah, fair comment.Mutate and Survive

The fact that it appears at the bottom of every one of my eighteen hundred plus messages didn't tip you off? Okay.I got it out of a comicbook. Just liked the sound of it. It's not set to automatically appear. I type it in each time. It just pleases me to do so for some reason. So again, no attempt on your part to address the actual argument, just more childish whining. You want to be careful you don't act too much like a child AE. You might get buggered by a priest.Mutate and Survive