Yahoo Answers makes Bible believers show their true colours. They defend the paedophilia approved in the Bible which saw girls too young for sex being married off to men just because they won't admit that the Bible far from being the word of a good God is obscene and whoever makes a child read it uncensored should be hauled up before the courts. The excuse was that those girls were not considered underage in those days! What would they say to a paedophile who said he was not doing wrong by going after 12 year old girls because they are not really underage and that the law is stating a fiction by saying that they are?
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The Christian religion provides the perfect cover for perverts who
prey on children. The Bible provides
justification. It follows then that any Church that claims to follow the
teaching of the Bible as the word of God is teaching that paedophilia is
acceptable - whether it realises it or not. The Bible itself commands
child-abuse for it says that anybody who does not know that their sins murdered
Jesus who had to atone for them by his death and rise so that we could rise too
will be damned forever in the agony of Hell.
These are awful things to tell a child.
It is the kind of stuff that would make some children kill when they
grow up on the basis that they have committed murder anyway and when it is
committed once it is easier to do it again.
The Bible even accuses them of a sin traced back to Adam. It tells them that a being some old men says
exists has to be put before themselves and their parents and all love must be
given to him and a depraved old book commanding murder and hatred and hypocrisy
in the name of love must be accepted as the word of God.
There is no end to the evil that the Church pumps
into children. The Bible is a palliative
for the conscience of the paedophile.
The priest claims to be giving you the most important thing there is,
faith in God and in his true Church. But
the priest takes no responsibility for what harm this does. He will not compensate you for that. If giving him money is not letting him steal
off you then nothing is stealing when he dares to ask for such a serious
commitment to his Church. That is the
kind of respect they have for you! Tell
them where to stick their apologies.
The Bible which the Church says is the word of God
and infallible states that Christians are not to go to pagan judges with their
disputes (1 Corinthians 6:1-11). The
Bible did not say untrustworthy pagan judges but just pagan judges meaning that
God has decided that only Christians should put Christians on trial. They would certainly have to be more than
Christians but also very upright people according to the Bible standard which
is pitifully poor I might add. If you
can’t take somebody to court when it is just pagans running the court how can
you go to a court run by Christians whose piety and holiness is dubious? The Bible Jesus says of such Christians that
they are neither hot nor cold and he will spew them out of his mouth. So they are despised as much as pagans in the
Bible and by the Bible God. There are
few Christians about and the most devout of them are often hypocrites. The Christians were told to stay away from
pagan judges in
Deuteronomy 19:15 has God forbidding any attention to be paid to any accusation that is made by only one witness (see also Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15; Numbers 35:30). Deuteronomy is forbidding attention to be paid to most children who report molestation for in the vast majority of cases it is just the child’s word against the abuser. And Jesus gave witness to the correctness of the rule centuries later (John 8:17). Jesus said that the law declared that what two men testify to is true. The same commandment was approved in 1 Timothy 5:19 and 2 Corinthians 13:1 by Paul the apostle. So Christians must not say that the commandment was done away by Jesus for it was validated in New Testament times.
The Bible can only make Christian paedophiles feel outraged and persecuted when
they are sent down. It is no wonder
there is little convincing remorse among religious child sex offenders but they
cannot admit that their faith and holy book and therefore God are their
inspiration in the ways of evil. The
Bible has been responsible for the abetting of child-abuse and covering up that
the Jehovah’s Witnesses have recently being exposed for (which they admit was
done because of the Bible teachings just mentioned). It certainly tells those who cover up that
they were doing right. Maybe the
covering up done by the cult and other cults like Roman Catholicism was done to
hide the fact that Christianity and the Bible produce and/or encourage
paedophiles.
The Church likes to keep the fact that the Torah,
the Law that God dictated to the evil Moses, did nothing about the Hebrew
tradition of marriages being arranged between men and girls who were just
children hidden under the mitre. The Law
railed against adultery and fornication and homosexuality but its God turned a
blind eye to this perversion. He did not
even have the decency to lay down a minimum age. It made it clear that these marriages,
usually the first marriage a man would contract, were lawful and not to be
sullied with adultery. It even let men
take more child-brides later. There is
absolutely no reason why God couldn’t have insisted on the age of the brides
being increased. To say he couldn’t is
as absurd as saying that we should reduce our age of consent to twelve because
many children are having sex these days.
Evangelicals stand up for God no matter what he does so if they want to
then they should have the laws of the land made to please rebellious selfish
people. They should reward insubordinancy thus.
Jewish girls were married as soon as they reached puberty or started to menstruate (page 13, 30, Son of Joseph). They were betrothed which was a kind of marriage that took place shortly before full marriage, at about 12 years of age (page 35, Putting Away Childish Things, Uta Ranke-Heinmann, HarperSanFrancisco, 1992). There was no concern for the girl being mature enough or ready for marriage. Girls of that age would have been more innocent and inexperienced and easily taken advantage of than girls today. We are talking about a serious abuse of young girls here. They were used by men and by religion. Rape is not too strong a word to describe what was done to them on the wedding night. The marriage was their lot whether they wanted it or not. The psychological pressure must have been intense. The man who rapes by pressuring a woman is as much a rapist as one who holds the woman down. In fact he is more hateful.
And the New Testament comes out
and sanctions this behaviour when it says that God gave Mary a baby before the
wedding. It was bad enough after the
wedding but before it meaning she was a younger mother than usual. The New Testament gives divine approval for
the abuse of children. It is bad enough
to have sex with a child but to make one pregnant is a hundredfold worse. But Christians are strangely appalled at the
idea that Mary might have had sex or come close to it and conceived that way
and delighted at the idea that she conceived without sex or a man well below
what anybody in their right mind would consider a decent age. So illicit sex is worse than an illicit pregnancy! This is another manifestation of the majority
Christian belief that pain is good and pleasure is bad.
Whoever says that the girls were not underage in those days so that their getting married at 12 or at the start of puberty is not a problem is one sick individual. First of all, the point is that they were emotionally and mentally and physically unprepared for sex. Second, they had no sex education. Third, they are implying that the only thing wrong with abusing children is that the law says they are underage and the fact that they are not ready doesn't matter! This is silly for the law is only about regulation. The law saying something doesn't automatically make it right.
Jesus was asked if any man could divorce his wife. Jesus said no and if he did he was making her commit adultery. He was recognising the validity of the underage marriages based on abuse and degradation of the female. He was approving of paedophilia. He was even forcing them to stay married - such was the strength of his pro-paedophilia stance.
In Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus sanctioned the Jewish law and condemned any attempt to water down any of its commandments. This proves he agreed with the paedophilia it blessed.
Is it not child abuse to tell a child that Jesus
came to save us from everlasting punishing and that they are guilty of Adam’s
sin and their sins are the reason why Jesus had to be crucified? It is so we conclude that child abuse is
built into the Christian system. The
system implies that paedophilia is permissible.
The laity are the people who have given priests the
immunity from criticism that they needed in order to molest and rape
children. They supported them and they
are to blame. The Bible certainly has
kings and priests and judges who were proclaimed to be the anointed of the Lord
who were to be obeyed. Atheists should
oppose the idea of people who are to be obeyed.
Obey nobody for nobody has the right to tell you what to do and
think. Instead you listen to what they
want to do and if you see you should do it then do it. You behave like you obey but what you obey is
what they make your mind suggest to you.
In other words, when you get a command you follow it not because it has
been commanded but because you believe it is right. Obedience is abhorrent and childish and
infers that some human beings are gods.
Logically, it implies that they should not be questioned though in
practice they often are. My book Sacred
Sexism demonstrates how the Roman Catholic priesthood thinks of itself as a
kind of master race for God limits magic powers to it to the detriment of the
people and insults them by doing this without need. If it is a superior clique then
child-molesting priests are above the civil law. They should get very light penalties if any
at all. They should certainly not be
exposed in the media for that robs them of the adulation to which they are
entitled as demigods. Small wonder canon
law requires that canon law come before civil law when there is a
conflict. The fact that a priest is not
allowed to tell what he heard in the confessional even if telling would save a
city from a terrorist nuclear blast makes this undeniable.
Victims of child abusers would prefer if their molester, with their consent, agreed to to turn himself in and face the rigours of the law of the land. The Church teaches that the paedophile who knows a child he has abused would want this is still not obligated to turn himself in. Whose side is the Church really on? The child gets a life sentence worsened by molesters getting away with it and the molester can please the Church by keeping silent.
The priests do not ask or pressure paedophiles to confess their crime to the police when they confess their crime in confession. The priest could ask the paedophile to go to the police as penance and doesn't.
The Church says that if you drink too much and the police arrest you and you go to court for drunkenness and endangering yourself you should be grateful for this lesson and for not getting away with it. You should see it as being for your own protection. You should be glad to have been punished. It is a central doctrine that you should love your neighbour as yourself which urges you to feel the pain of others as if it were your own. It has the nerve to teach this and then approve if paedophiles refuse to seek their punishment. It allows paedophiles not to do themselves the favour of being punished! If you should welcome punishment for your own good but don't have to welcome it for the sake of others then that totally contradicts the love your neighbour as yourself dogma. There is no real support for laws that stop child abuse in the Church. Men who look up to the Church and are conditioned to copy its example and its attitude may find it difficult to feel that they should not indulge any child molesting tendencies they may have. Many Christians suffer from the tendency to feel that something is right if it is okay with the Church no matter how vile it is.
The Church's attitude is that if the paedophile
should be punished the victim should traumatise themselves to see to it that it
happens. It allows the paedophile to refuse to seek punishment. This
is really saying that the law
which is put in place to redress injustice should be ignored. If it can be ignored at all it should always
be ignored. The law is supposed to be
there for creating and preserving order and if that is its purpose criminals
should turn themselves in especially with horrific crimes like
paedophilia. To say otherwise is to say
that the only crime is in getting caught.
A law that does not demand that you admit your guilt and pay for it is
not a law at all. It is only a law in
the sense that it punishes you for getting caught and not for the crime. The crime only becomes an excuse for hurting
criminals. The criminals end up not
being punished but been revenged upon.
The Church certainly sanctions hatred and revenge despite its two-faced
words against these things. So there is
no law against raping and molesting children according to the Roman Church as
long as you are a priest or bishop and make sure you can’t get caught. The worse the police force is in your area
the better for you. There is no doubt
about it that the Roman Church, along with many other
The doctrine of Jesus Christ that if your brother hurts you seventy times a day you must forgive him seventy times makes paedophiles feel victimised by those who detest them. It makes them feel that if the victim is damaged, it is because the victim failed to forgive as Jesus asked. The claim that Jesus has the miraculous power to turn a sinner into a holy person rapidly if that person only co-operates and asks for the grace urges them to blame the victim. The lack of compassion in the clergy and religious for the victims of paedophile clergy and religion can be explained by those doctrines. Doctrines such as that if you don't forgive, you are punishing yourself for what somebody else did to you don't help.
Children have a tendency to believe in fairies and witches and Santa Claus and God and Jesus and tooth fairies and other supernatural beings. Religion seeks to keep a part of you childish, the part of you that reaches out to believe in God. Paedophiles are stuck at a childish stage which causes their disorder. Religion is helping to develop them by promoting supernaturalism in children and urging them to childishly hold on to it.
The Church teaches that children are to be given confession and communion around the age of seven or eight for then they have the use of reason and can reject God by mortal sin or sin that takes you to Hell forever should you die. Strange that children can make the ultra-mammoth decision, the most serious decision of all namely where to spend eternity, and cannot marry or consent to sex. It is no wonder with absurd and vicious doctrines like this that paedophile priests do not think they took advantage of the children they had sex with.
The history of the Church shows that clerical child abusers showed no real tendency to try and get treatment for their paedophilia. Many paedophiles seek such treatment. The question is why the priestly ones don't even when they can. They have to be forced by their bishops to get help. And the help is really about making it look like they tried to change than about really trying to cease being a danger to children. It is about pulling the wool over the eyes of the flock. It has been observed by Laszlo Bito Phd that the priests guilty of the abuse have not showing any signs of intense remorse or guilt. They do not take every avenue they can to control their urges. The repentance they offer is light and pathetic. It insults the victims. Its more superficial than anything else.
Conclusion
The Christian and Bible religion endangers children and helps paedophiles justify themselves.
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