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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Well, seeing the problems Catholic priests are having not touching little children, I'm going to go ahead and say no, religion is not a very good way to deal with people that do want to do such heinous acts.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Catholic priests aren't all religions.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    So you are saying that people of all religions want to molest kids, but are held back from that because their God would disapprove?

    Gosh, and here I am not wanting to molest kids all on my own.

    But let’s go less icky - most people don’t want to molest kids. So let’s talk about stealing. What is keeping me from stealing from a big corpo like Walmart? Security cameras and laws. What is keeping me from stealing from my neighbors, and even other people at large? I respect other humans enough to not take the things that they have paid for. No security cameras, police aren’t around - I could go take my neighbors nice lawn mower out of his shed tonight and likely never get caught, but I don’t because I don’t want to deprive another human of things they worked hard to acquire.

    I guess you’re saying that some people need religion because they have less of a moral compass than I, an atheist, have?

    Edit: also, it doesn’t just happen Catholicism, and if you need the proof, I think there’s a community for that.

    Edit 2: a downvote but not a rebuttal. 🙄

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