(Ron) Catholic sexual ethics

Joseph Crea Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net
Sat, 4 Apr 1998 22:40:04 +0000 (00891751204, 19980404224002.AAA29631@LOCALNAME) 

Hello again, Ron!

At 11:01 AM 4/4/98 -0500, Brian Dean wrote:

>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. 



CREA
    Let me get this right -- you wish to say that "atheism is an easy out
for those who do not wish to conform to Judeo-Christian (or Buddhist, etc.)
morality", despite the fact that both Theravadin Buddhism and Jainism are
quite overtly atheistic?  From here it looks like you want to have your cake
and eat it too.  After all, if atheists are adverse to morality, they
wouldn't be Theravadins or Jains either, since both these religions have
quite well defined moral codes.  But then, since Jains and Theravadins are
atheists, they can't have morals.  PARADOX ALERT! PARADOX ALERT!  Sorry,
Ron, but as Mr. Spock would say, this is not logical.



With Mettaa,

Joseph Crea
<Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net>