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Tom

2005-04-12, 11:46 am


"Shez" <shez@oldcity.f2s.com> wrote in message
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> So you think pedophile priests should be forgiven and given a new parish
> where they can carry on abusing other children creating a long chain of
> abuse that is never broken...


No, I don't. I'm unsure how you arrived at that conclusion given what I
wrote.

Christian forgiveness has nothing to do with enabling sin.

> Forgiveness yes, but freedom to carryon committing such a crime no way,


Yes, forgiveness is not the same as permission. People who confuse these
two concepts are in error.

> they belong in prison, personally I would never let out a pedophile from
> prison I think that those who abuse children should be locked up for
> life. Because their is no way they can change.


The statistics on recidivism for sexual offenders don't support your
conclusion. Many do not re-offend. Some offended in only a small way in a
single instance while others were flagrant, predatory repeaters, yet you
want to treat them all the same. This isn't justice, Shez, this is the rule
of fear and hatred.

> They are plague carriers and the plague they carry is to abuse children,
> and those children grow up often with a sense of betrayal and with huge
> psychological problems, a certain amount of those children become
> abusers themselves or plague carriers the only way to stop it is to make
> sure that priests who abuse children are jailed, and defrocked and are
> never allowed to be priests again.


It's pretty clear that you don't understand forgiveness at all.


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