I can conceive of nothing more wicked and revolting

[JohnD]

Catholic children's home run by nuns

http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/mass-grave-galway-tuam-1494001-May2014/

 

[JBR]

The Catholic Church has a lot to answer for. It is, in my mind, the second-most corrupt religion in the world.

 

[jeds]

Hard to think of anything more wicked. What some people will do in the name of the Lord.

 

[EddieM]

it beggars belief, even if you think that the worst possible "crime" you could commit was having a child out of wedlock how can the innocent child be guilty of anything? The Catholic relgion and especially the Irish Catholic church certainly seem to be some sort of quasi SS. Bringing pain misery and indeed torture on innocent folk under the banner of their perverted view of religion.

I certainly hope that any surviving "nuns" are prosecuted to the maximum extent for their crimes. An excommunication wouldn't come amiss as well.

They have no god and no common decency.... just simply cowardly scum.

 

[securespark]

If people can justify doing something in their minds, they will do it without qualms.

In religion, people are given that justification by extremist leaders or elders, or they interpret the texts to their own ends.

 

[Big Tone]

Is it any surprise; given that the adults have been killing each other over religious differences since forever...

(I bet £10 it’ll get from religion to racism before page 3 with a little input from RH. Who’s in?)

 

[Deleted member 63160]

Ah well ya see those weren't catholics, they were fundementalist extremists. Real catholics wouldn't do that because it says not to in the bible. They are just giving all good catholics a bad name.
That's how it goes isn't it??

 

[ajrtd]

There's no excusing the sickening cruelty that nuns meted out to young children, and their parents when given the chance. Evil doesn't adequately describe many of them.

But I'm left wondering how many unwanted children have been aborted in Britain today. 800 maybe?


Edit: Around 200,000 abortions are carried out each year in England and Wales. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9582428/Abortion-24-week-limit-QandA.html

 

[ellal]

The Catholic Church has a lot to answer for. It is, in my mind, the second-most corrupt religion in the world.

So do you have a league table of the 'worlds worst imaginary friend', and if so how do you award points?

 

[EddieM]

I don't agree with abortion per se.... but as in many aspects of life its not black and white.

1st and foremost I strongly believe abortion should only be permitted in the 1st trimester of pregnancy under the following conditions.

1) The woman was raped
2) The foetus has significant defects (difficult to define I'll give you)
3) The pregnancy is potentionally seriously injurious to the mothers health.

I don't buy the argument of women of its my body I'll do what I like in this case. I similarly don't buy the argument that the father has no say.

If you had an ill advised, possibly drunken dalliance and it resulted in a pregnancy... well... That's tough. Time to man and woman up.

 

[cajar]

Ah well ya see those weren't catholics, they were fundementalist extremists. Real catholics wouldn't do that because it says not to in the bible. They are just giving all good catholics a bad name.
That's how it goes isn't it??

Nah, it'll be, "what they're doing / did isn't cruel and wicked, just "different". "

 

[noseall]

Eh, look at us, a bunch of "holier than thou" Brits condemning the Irish for their cruelty allowing sick children to die.

Imagine the uproar if we did something like that, us civilised Brits. Like staving millions of Irish to death for instance....?

I wonder who made the Irish cynical?

 

[bernardgreen]

http://www.childmigrantstrust.com/our-work/child-migration-history

Britain is the only country in the world with a sustained history of child migration. Only Britain has used child migration as a significant part of its child care strategy over a period of four centuries rather than as a policy of last resort during times of war or civil unrest.

 

[RogueHanger]

Is it any surprise; given that the adults have been killing each other over religious differences since forever...

(I bet £10 it’ll get from religion to racism before page 3 with a little input from RH. Who’s in?)

My bet is that someone makes a silly and spurious allegation against me by about the sixth post.
Oh, that's yours, BT.

Then cajar can be relied on to make a further siily comment.

I actually (nearly) agree with mitch on this occasion, except of course they weren't fundamentalist, per se, they were exploiting the opportunity, hidden behind a religious institution. They maybe were justifying it to themselves by some perverted recourse to a religious pretext.
But that's what people do when they can't admit to themselves that what they are doing is wrong. It's called cognitive dissonance.
Whether that description can be applied to a complete insititution, I'm not sure.

There's nothing catholic, or any religion, about abusing children. It's just like GD forum really, some people exploit any method, media, or channel, to abuse others, wherever it's allowed, covered up, denied, or deniable.

 

[Big Tone]

Eh, look at us, a bunch of "holier than thou" Brits condemning the Irish for their cruelty allowing sick children to die.

Imagine the uproar if we did something like that, us civilised Brits. Like staving millions of Irish to death for instance....?

I wonder who made the Irish cynical?

I agree with you Noseall, but it still doesn't make it right or not disgusting. My 'two wrongs don't make right' reposte.