(Ron) Catholic sexual ethics

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April

Don't avoid the issue!  It doesn't matter whether the percentage of 
priests who sexually molest kids is 1 or 50 - the POINT is that being 
Catholic does NOT prevent people from engaging in sexual behavior 
that you (and most people with regards to pedophillia) find immoral!  
Answer the issue, Ron - if people are atheists primarily to avoid 
sexual restrictions, and if being religious (Catholic) keeps people 
on the sexual "straight and narrow" then why are there ANY pedophillic 
priests, let alone as many as there are?  And why aren't we seeing 
large numbers of atheists being convicted for pedophillia?

RON
  You make two errors. 
  1.I never suggested that religion (Christian or otherwise) keeps 
people on the straight and narrow. Only that most atheists become such 
because of sexual convenience. Christians still have to struggle with 
their self-control.  
  2. You assume that pedophilia is the greatest sexual tendancy. For 
that matter there is no reason to believe that a lage portion of all 
pedophiles are not atheists. 
  Whether some priests are pedophiles, murderers, whatever, has no 
bearing on the fact that atheism is an easy out for those who do not 
wish to conform to Judeo-Christian (or Buddhist, etc.)morality. If you 
are one of those people you know it, or at least have nagging doubts. I 
hope you will be honest with yourself. 

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