Glyn MoodyPriests claim sexual abuse charges violate their religious freedom - https://boingboing.net/2026/03/25/priests-claim-sexual-abuse-charges-violate-their-religious-freedom.html "Their lawyer is claiming, in effect, that being a priest should exempt them from rules that apply to everyone else in similar roles."
Janet@glynmoody Well that’s a very standard medieval argument - the efficacy of the sacrament does not rely on the ethical probity of the priest. Emphasis here on *medieval* cf Thomas Aquinas utterly redundant scholastic thinking.
@Janet_52square no surprise there
@glynmoody in my younger life I did a PhD on early modern Dominicans. Doesn’t mean I don’t live in 2026… so why can they even begin to think of defending the indefensible using crud-logic like this?
@Janet_52square unwilling to give up their millennial privileges, I suppose
@glynmoody but which millenium?? 😡
MidgePhotoReligious freedom: oddly used term.
Perhaps it is time for a State religion, synthetic and without any claims or pretence of being true or revealed. Form rather than underpinnings.
Perhaps it is time for a State religion, synthetic and without any claims or pretence of being true or revealed. Form rather than underpinnings.
Biggles 20X6!what's the saying "your freedoms end where they start restricting those of others".
Or to use an example :
"If your religion thinks sexual assault is ok for your priests, but my religion says rapists must be hung drawn and quartered, whose religious freedom wins out? "
@Taco_lad maybe religions are a bad idea...
@glynmoody once they were good, because the dogma and appeal to authority maintained social cohesion and health practices without needing to explain the reasons behind the word.
They provide simple rules for people who cannot understand the world.
They provide simple rules for people who cannot understand the world.
@Taco_lad once, yes
Theriac@glynmoody
well it works for Trump ....
well it works for Trump ....