(Ron) Catholic sexual ethics
Rick Gaudreau grgaud@sprint.ca
Sat, 4 Apr 1998 20:07:31 -0500 (00891760051, 003501bd602f$359db7e0$0100007f@rickgaud)
>STEVE
>Ron, in Australia the figure quoted in the papers was about 7% of
>priests being charged... I dont know of any other profession with
>such a high% of child molestors.
>
>RON
> First of all, I doubt the validity of that percentage. Perhaps you
>could copy their sources. But more to the point, even if 50% of priests
>were pedophiles how would that have any bearing on the fact that most
>atheists become atheists because it is sexually convenient?
>(snip)
>
>JANET
>Ron, how many times are you going to say that? I refer you to your own
>words below from, cut from my replies to you on 3-29 and 3-31-98:
>
> " RON
> You are living in a dream world! I mean that most atheists, not
>all,
> have a problem with God because he forces them to restrain
>their
> libidos. (snip)
>
> JANET (snip)
> If I may make such a sweeping assertion as you just did, let me
>say
> that the reason you don't want to accept that atheists are moral
>human
> beings is that it contradicts your fond belief that morality is
>divinely
> revealed. Please, Ron, start thinking about what you say.
>
> RON
> OK, I'm properly chastened! (snip) "
>
>JANET
>Not properly chastened enough, apparently, since you have continued to
>assert the same thing. You have been asked for evidence several times, but
>have not presented any. Do you have any, or are you just unwilling to
>retreat from the corner you seem to have painted yourself into?
RICK G
Janet, perhaps Ron is the one who cannot "restrain" his libido. He seems to have
some kind of an obsession with sex. I'm an atheist and I didn't become one
because of sex. I became one because after first being a Roman Catholic and then
being an evangelical bible thumper for 18 years, I realized that the basis for
affirming the god of christianity, the bible, was so full of holes that it would
make Swiss cheese envious... hence the name "Holey Bible".
If Ron could give us a (one) sound reason (accent the word "Reason") for
believing in a "Supreme Being", then it might go a long way to convincing us.
Rick G.