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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find the rabid anti-Catholic ex-Catholic's adherence to a sort of neo-tribalism most interesting.  In tribal societies, each member in a sense takes on the wrongs inflicted upon or inflicted by another member of the tribe and takes on the blame or the right for vengeance.

RACEC believes similarly that each and every Catholic is guilty and responsible for the crimes of the few of their co-religionists.  The primal nature of his/her point of view unfiltered by where we are as a civilization in the US and many other countries where notions like collective punishment are rejected speaks of deep personal pain or dysfunction that has caused her/him to revert to a more primitive way of thinking.[/quote]

So now, to deflect, you're bringing up a sociological component.

Have you ever witnessed an assault?  I've seen plenty in schools where kids and adults stand around and allow the assailant to brutally attack the victim.  Yet, according to you, the onlookers are innocent.

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How many of these acts of pedophilia had onlookers? [/quote]

Try to stop being stupid for a moment.

But let be proactive and simplify in case your brain is too small to process too much information.

Let's say you belonged to St. John the Evangelist in Berbertown, MA.  Your son, Michael, is friends with another little boy, Jimmy. They attend Sunday school together.  You know the family but you're not that close.  It's January, and you find out that your parish priest, Father Phil, has suddenly been transferred to another parish.  Eventually, you see that he's made the news b/c he molested several children at your church.  Jimmy, you discover, is one victim.

So while you weren't necessarily an "onlooker," you now know of the situation.  You try to comfort the parents even though you're in shock.  But yet you STILL return to church, week after week.  well, b/c it didn't happen to YOUR kid

same as being an onlooker, I'd say

And I think many others would agree.[/quote]

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