Archbishop Claims SCOTUS Decision Is "Poisoning" The Future
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One priest sexually abused 200 little deaf boys in his care.Witty Name Here said:
I don't think you understand the SCALE of this abuse and how long the conspiracy of silence went on. And it was BECAUSE of the extraordinary conspiracy to cover it up that it got this bad, it's not "the same as any other organisation"
To find more prolific cases of child abuse you have to go to warzones in Central Africa or other secretive religious organisations. It has gotten REALLY REALLY bad, unbelievably bad, as in most people can't believe it got as bad as it got but it did.
What the crap are you talking about? Read these articles again, both these priests are dead. One died before allegations of sexual abuse were brought up and the other was removed from the clergy after allegations and died shortly after. Or are you suggesting he helped these priests fake their deaths?DeathWyrmNexus said:
Also if I were going to try and keep something "underwraps" I wouldn't give press conferences about it telling the reporters exactly how much I paid and everything.
Chaput also opened up confidential records of these men for the victims something that seems to go against standard church policies. Reading these articles I can't see any flaw in what this guy did. He was appointed to this position after all these events took place.
Edit: Had an email telling me that he is hushing up that one case that hasn't been settled and hiding the priest connected to that. Not true. http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/archbishop_chaput_takes_immediate_action_on_sex_abuse_allegation_in_denver/ That priests name is Fr. Thomas civil authorities were contacted upon accusation.
Yeah, Columbine would have never happened if the shooters had been reading books like Catcher in the Rye and not playing Doom.
People like this are like the crazy lady in "The Mist," and it's best to treat them as such. Not the whole shoot-them-while-they're-holding-spoiled-milk thing, but just ignored and left alone.
Really though, by now I think this guy's views on the video game world are *puts on glasses*
Chaput! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah!
*takes off glasses* did...did anyone else do that already? I couldn't tell, I had my shades on.
Really though, by now I think this guy's views on the video game world are *puts on glasses*
Chaput! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah!
*takes off glasses* did...did anyone else do that already? I couldn't tell, I had my shades on.
Why? The gaming community's detractors aren't going to pull any punches, as they've proven in this particular instance and time after time beforehand. Why should game journalists have to play nice?starwarsgeek said:
OT: Wow...now religion's ranting about how the government is evil for telling parents to do their job...what a shock. /sarcasm
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really?vansau said:
how is this even relatively relevant to the article?
I mean, I hate all kinds and forms of organized religion, but throwing this piece between an article about what one catholic man states is just trying to create commotion over such a simple matter, you already made it clear that he is a nut job and dumb with the related comments you made, why lower to his level with something that has nothing to do with the issue at hand?
anything for 10 pages of comments, I guess...
First of all, what antural rights of parents? I work at Wal-Mart. I ahve seen parents that should never have been allowed to breed, much less be let out into society.
Second of all, parents can choose what video games their children play. All teh parent has to do is research the game. It's not that hard.
Third of all, the ruling was in favor of the First Amendment, i.e. Freedom of Speech. One of the justices did say that you cannot discriminate between types of speech just becasue you don't like one.
You can't use isolated instances of real world violence as a good argument against video games. There is no way to prove that video games were the result of what happened at Columbine. In guarantee that if you asked that archbishop if all priests molested children, he'd say something along the lines of how you can't judge all priests from a couple of nutjobs.
Second of all, parents can choose what video games their children play. All teh parent has to do is research the game. It's not that hard.
Third of all, the ruling was in favor of the First Amendment, i.e. Freedom of Speech. One of the justices did say that you cannot discriminate between types of speech just becasue you don't like one.
You can't use isolated instances of real world violence as a good argument against video games. There is no way to prove that video games were the result of what happened at Columbine. In guarantee that if you asked that archbishop if all priests molested children, he'd say something along the lines of how you can't judge all priests from a couple of nutjobs.
Precisely. Still, my parents let me play Metal Gear Solid and Tekken as well and I don't think it's done me any harm. *twitches*believer258 said:
I will start listening to one of these guys when they stop being stupid and close-mindedly subjective. You know, when they analyze the effect of all violent media, you know, tv, movies, book and video games and the like, make a clear-cut statement of their opinion, discuss both sides of the argument and then propose what they would like to see happen. But who are we kidding? That's a few years off, in the best case scenario.
vansau said:Archbishop Claims SCOTUS Decision Is "Poisoning" The Future
That said, I'm willing to bet that Catholic priests have <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases>done more harm to the youth of the world than videogames have, though this wasn't something that the Archbishop addressed in his article.
Source: Catholic News Agency via <a href=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/07/05/denver-archbishop-calls-scotus-decision-039wrong039>GamePolitics
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Epic burn. I guess fearmongering is too hard to stop.