Okay...now I'm *really* starting to get angry here.
"...but I've known too many good priests in my life, people who took and take their call seriously and work towards the good of everyone to throw they all in the same heap."
A) I didn't say I was laying blame on the good priests. I am, on the other hand, laying blame on the people who opted to cover up for the bad ones and tell their victims to keep quiet. What I'v been trying to attack here is the system, which is pretty damn fucked up.
B) Ah...so now I see what this is all about.
I'm really happy for you that you've had good experiences with priests, but unfortunately, not everybody has. I told you about my relative. We used to see this individual every Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter; he also attended our confirmations and graduations from school. It was odd how he took a great interest in my siblings and I when we were young. I remember him playing with us and telling us stories-- which, when I looked back on them, were kind of disturbing and wasn't something I would tell a young kid. Then, when we grew up, he suddenly seemed no longer interested in us. In fact, we used to refer to him as "the wine drinking rock" at family parties.
I am CONVINCED that he was trying to groom us, but the only reason he didn't try to pull any shit with us was because my parents, his sister, and my aunt were all there, so he never got much of a chance to get one of us alone. That, and if my dad found out, he would have put him in the hospital.
The first allegations that he was abusing kids came out in the eighties, WHEN WE WERE STILL KIDS!!! Was he prosecuted for what he did? No. Did any of those kids get justice? No. Were my parents informed that he was doing these things so that they knew to keep their kids away from him? No. The church merely moved him to a parish in another state where he could re-offend again. Am I pissed off about this? Yes, very much. Am I pissed off now that the Vatican and the pope himself have been implicated in all of this? You bet!!! And you'd think that the pope, the man who is supposed to represent God on Earth, would be better than that! (And clearly he's not working towards perfection, as you just said in another comment. All he cares about is his own welfare because all I've seen him and his cronies do is shift the blame onto others-- ie the gays-- in order to avoid it falling upon himself. And personally, I think blaming the gays for this is tantamount to blaming the Jews for causing the Black Death by poisoning the wells. It has nothing to do with anything, but I guess everybody's got to have a scape goat though. But you don't believe me on any of what I'm saying so why do I bother trying to tell you all this?) And you'd think that I'm going to want to hop on LJ or another social media site to vent about what's going on currently? Hell yeah! It's what it's there for after all!
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"...but I've known too many good priests in my
life, people who took and take their call seriously and work towards the
good of everyone to throw they all in the same heap."
A) I didn't say I was laying blame on the good priests. I am, on the other hand, laying blame on the people who opted to cover up for the bad ones and tell their victims to keep quiet. What I'v been trying to attack here is the system, which is pretty damn fucked up.
B) Ah...so now I see what this is all about.
I'm really happy for you that you've had good experiences with priests, but unfortunately, not everybody has. I told you about my relative. We used to see this individual every Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter; he also attended our confirmations and graduations from school. It was odd how he took a great interest in my siblings and I when we were young. I remember him playing with us and telling us stories-- which, when I looked back on them, were kind of disturbing and wasn't something I would tell a young kid. Then, when we grew up, he suddenly seemed no longer interested in us. In fact, we used to refer to him as "the wine drinking rock" at family parties.
I am CONVINCED that he was trying to groom us, but the only reason he didn't try to pull any shit with us was because my parents, his sister, and my aunt were all there, so he never got much of a chance to get one of us alone. That, and if my dad found out, he would have put him in the hospital.
The first allegations that he was abusing kids came out in the eighties, WHEN WE WERE STILL KIDS!!! Was he prosecuted for what he did? No. Did any of those kids get justice? No. Were my parents informed that he was doing these things so that they knew to keep their kids away from him? No. The church merely moved him to a parish in another state where he could re-offend again. Am I pissed off about this? Yes, very much. Am I
pissed off now that the Vatican and the pope himself have been implicated in all of this? You bet!!! And you'd think that the pope, the man who is supposed to represent God on Earth, would be better than that! (And clearly he's not working towards perfection, as you just said in another comment. All he cares about is his own welfare because all I've seen him and his cronies do is shift the blame onto others-- ie the gays-- in order to avoid it falling upon himself. And personally, I think blaming the gays for this is tantamount to blaming the Jews for causing the Black Death by poisoning the wells. It has nothing to do with anything, but I guess everybody's got to have a scape goat though. But you don't believe me on any of what I'm saying so why do I bother trying to tell you all this?) And you'd think that I'm going to want to hop on LJ or another social media site to vent about what's going on currently? Hell yeah! It's what it's there for after all!