Re: holy fly
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:20:57 +1000
> I'm also confident that the Catholic ethos is no worse than
> many other systems of belief in producing its peculiar horrors.
> However, I should be interested to hear from those countless
> victims of abuse - physical, emotional & sexual - now emerging
> from the shadows of church orphanages & Order schools.
> What do they feel, I wonder, about the peculiar benefits arising
> from the `overiding mythology' of the principal Christian sect ?
Oh, *please*, and you refer to old hat! Yes, this has been a problem in the
Catholic church but it's also been a problem in scout halls, Mormon halls,
Muslim halls of houses, halls of fame, what have you. I'm not what you'd
call an actively practising Catholic but I do think it's unfair to look
upon the Catholic Church as some den of iniquity writhing with predatory
brothers and abusive nuns. Such things happened, yes - but such things
happened, will happen and do happen in a lot of other places too. It's just
as likely to happen in a primary school and you wouldn't spearhead all
primary schools for that reason!
Camille
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