• Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    So pure selfishness then. A miscarriage of justice for the victim. The deliberate ignoring of societal problems. It only benefits the person who committed the crime by allowing them to get off scot-free. You think it’s a good thing for pedophiles to avoid justice, just so long as they appeal to your god. You think that’s how things should be.

    I’ll bet you don’t even wonder how so many pedophiles found protection from their crimes and limitless opportunities to molest more victims simply by hiding within the authority of your church, for literally over a thousand years. And you believe them when they claim that they are the pathway to eternal paradise. Where is your god?

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      14 days ago

      Catholics actually believe in Purgatory, where the priest saves your soul from damnation to Hell, you are still divinely punished before you enter Heaven. That is unless you get the apostolic pardon and sacrament of penance.

      https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+9%3A1-8%2CMark+2%3A1-12&version=GW

      Jesus absolves people of sins and gives men the ability to do so. Your disbelief in the ability does not influence the believers. If you have an issue with it you can always rant with the Unitarian Universalists.

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          14 days ago

          You consider it an abortion of justice yet they will still be divinely punished through purgation. Confession only prevents damnation to hell. Furthermore, your end sentence states Jesus would be appaled and you ranted about the church, but he did absolve sins and gave us the ability to do it.

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            14 days ago

            You are incapable of withdrawing the plank from your own eye when it’s pointed out. You just pretend there is a splinter in mine.