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Major Nikon

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7. It just provides and example of how people feel their religion trumps all other considerations

Reply to trotsky (Reply #6)

Fri Mar 29, 2019, 11:56 AM

Mar 2019

Pointing out how religion enables and in some cases precipitates evil needs a "counterpoint" because their perfect imaginary friend and by extension their religion which begs favor can never be seen to be anything less than perfect or it shatters the illusion(delusion?) they have spent considerable effort creating.

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Priest accused of sexually assaulting woman while performing last rites [View all] trotsky Mar 2019 OP

WTF? UpInArms Mar 2019 #1

I said to devile her, not defile her. Funtatlaguy Mar 2019 #2

Nobody wakes up one day after being on this earth for 75 years and decides to be a sexual predator Major Nikon Mar 2019 #3

Yep and it is likely we only heard about this incident because the woman lived. trotsky Mar 2019 #4

I can almost hear the records in the diocese going through the shredder as we speak Major Nikon Mar 2019 #5

What makes this particularly relevant to this group... trotsky Mar 2019 #6

It just provides and example of how people feel their religion trumps all other considerations Major Nikon Mar 2019 #7

In China, that happens too, but it's atheists who do it, I understand. MineralMan Mar 2019 #8

Well dat settles it. Diddling the dying ain't no big deal. Voltaire2 Mar 2019 #10

So what does an atheist do for last rites? marylandblue Mar 2019 #11

Gods work overtime in mysterious ways. Voltaire2 Mar 2019 #9