Anybody else tired of hearing about church scandals?

profitius

Once again these past few days the church has been on the front page and all over the media. The story has made massive headlines with victims calling for resignations etc etc.

In other words its the same thing we've been hearing for the past 2 decades. As Roy Keane recently said (talking about something different) get over it!

Whinging about what happened in the past will only make things worse in the future as far as mental health is concerned.

You also have the media who cleverly hypes it all up therefore getting people worked up about it. And because its the church it's ok to tar all priests with the same brush. Why don't we ever hear anything about the good priests or positive things?

I don't go to curch anymore incase anyone is wondering.

liah

Yes.
So stop talking about it.

Fear Uladh

The victims deserve closure and Justice, no one has any right to say they should stop talking because you don't like to hear about it, that is exactly what they did all those years ago. I hope more scandals come out and bankrupt that farce of an organisation.

profitius

liah wrote: »

Yes.
So stop talking about it.

I'm not talking about it I'm talking about the reaction to it.

liah

Chillaxe wrote: »

The victims deserve closure and Justice, no one has any right to say they should stop talking because you don't like to hear about it, that is exactly what they did all those years ago. I hope more scandals come out and bankrupt that farce of an organisation.

I think you're missing the point, tbh.

I'm sick of hearing about it. Sick to death of it. But not because I don't want to hear about it. I'm sick of it because that's all it is-- talk. Nothing's changing. No matter how many accusations and discoveries are made, the church (not worthy of capitalization) is getting away with it. And that's that.

I'd rather people shut up and did something about it than just tut about the state of it all. You're right. It is a farce.

m@cc@

I'm tired of the church being involved in scandals.

Mr. Incognito

I'm not talking about it I'm talking about the reaction to it

You mean the reaction that church authorities that when they learnt about the abuse had children sign non disclosure forms.

You mean the reaction that when questioned Brady said it was not a resigning matter and I quote :

“I really played my part, the part I had 35 years ago as priest- recording secretary, to the best of my ability,” he told BBC Northern Ireland. “We are now judging the behaviour of 35 years ago by the standards we set today and I don’t think that’s fair, it does not apply to other sectors of society.”

He agreed he knew he was dealing with crimes in the canonical inquiry “but I did not feel it was my responsibility to denounce the actions of Brendan Smyth to the police”.

You mean the reaction from the victims

“I was raped, abused and had pictures taken of my body.” She said two other schoolgirls Fr Smyth abused at the same time had since taken their own lives. “I was 13 when it began in 1974 and it went on for five years. If he [Cardinal Brady] had done something my life would have been so different,” she said.

Yeah,

Get over it.
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Karl Hungus

They should just nuke the vatican and be done with it.

profitius

Chillaxe wrote: »

The victims deserve closure and Justice, no one has any right to say they should stop talking because you don't like to hear about it, that is exactly what they did all those years ago. I hope more scandals come out and bankrupt that farce of an organisation.

Hmm, interesting.

Your post sums up what I have been observing.

You hope there has been more scandals (meaning more victims) so the church can be crushed. Fair enough thats what alot of people in the media thinks too but it shows they're not too concerned with the victims, they just want to get rid of the church.

Usually alot of these people don't believe in religion so the church goes against their beliefs.

m@cc@

Karl Hungus wrote: »

They should just nuke the vatican and be done with it.

Or drop a load of naked ladies on them. That'd learn them.

Karl Hungus

m@cc@ wrote: »

Or drop a load of naked ladies on them. That'd learn them.

What did the naked ladies in question do to deserve such treatment?

liah

profitius wrote: »

Hmm, interesting.

Your post sums up what I have been observing.

You hope there has been more scandals (meaning more victims) so the church can be crushed. Fair enough thats what alot of people in the media thinks too but it shows they're not too concerned with the victims, they just want to get rid of the church.

Usually alot of these people don't believe in religion so the church goes against their beliefs.

Nice one, reading posts to suit your agenda. The irony.

Pretty sure he was trying to say that he hopes more victims make their cases public so they receive their personal justices and closure, not that he hopes there will be new victims in the future.

m@cc@

profitius wrote: »

Usually alot of these people don't believe in religion so the church goes against their beliefs.

I'd hope what the 'church' has been getting up to goes against most people's beliefs.

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Can I be serious at this hour?

Paedo priests, **** off obviosuly
But I kinda like the church, one of my top 10 places to see is the vatican

And the aul people around my homestead love the church cos death would frighten the living **** out of them otherwise so its a good thing for a lot of people, provides comfort

And my local priest, who i have often conversed with, is ridicolously intelligent, so much so that i cant believe he believes any of this BS, but he's such a genuinely nice man I honeslty believe that he is there to provide people such comfort.
And fair fecks to him for providing a free service, if you wanna be cynical about that then as Oscar Wilde said 'A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing'

Sharpshooter

profitius wrote: »

Once again these past few days the church has been on the front page and all over the media. The story has made massive headlines with victims calling for resignations etc etc.

In other words its the same thing we've been hearing for the past 2 decades. As Roy Keane recently said (talking about something different) get over it!

Whinging about what happened in the past will only make things worse in the future as far as mental health is concerned.

You also have the media who cleverly hypes it all up therefore getting people worked up about it. And because its the church it's ok to tar all priests with the same brush. Why don't we ever hear anything about the good priests or positive things?

I don't go to curch anymore incase anyone is wondering.

Try here, OP.