tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post80895284907731901..comments2023-08-13T11:58:31.588-04:00Comments on Ghulf Genes: A Balanced View of Priestly Sexual AbuseADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-64049124782414687532011-04-13T08:05:34.284-04:002011-04-13T08:05:34.284-04:00I agree totally.
Sometimes the worst damage comes ...I agree totally.<br />Sometimes the worst damage comes from the legal system, the parents, the schoolmates... all the people thought to be in the role of support actually may inflict damage that is more severe than anything else. <br />So the business is very complex.<br /><br />And there are very, very mixed messages in the Media and in our heads. The Music Industry itself has created stock epithets of sexually suggestive acts that are open to all ages.<br />I saw a 15 or 14 year old Justin Bieber on The Today Show 2 years ago and I just stood there amazed at the hypocritical stupidity of it all.Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-21571611379193970812011-04-12T20:12:26.107-04:002011-04-12T20:12:26.107-04:00I fear that you are right, Montag. Big, strong fam...I fear that you are right, Montag. Big, strong families and children able to talk to their parents (and vice versa) are the only bulwark against this sort of thing that works up to a point. <br /><br />Not to minimize the horrid nature of sexual abuse, but the issue that rose to my attention here is really the not-so-subtle cultural prejudices echo back by the media--that, these days, there isn't a genuine "adult" sort of stance that our institutions actually reflect.ADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-66641110912917892422011-04-12T17:47:54.781-04:002011-04-12T17:47:54.781-04:00Yes. I am overstating... as usual.
The entire spe...Yes. I am overstating... as usual.<br /><br />The entire spectacle is somehow akin to that of the McMartin school in California (I believe) back in the early 90's. It was a "witch trial" based on "recovered memory" and suggestions planted into children's minds by overzealous prosecutors.<br />And it was not the only one over the following decade. Suddenly there was a rash of abuse and Satan worship in pre-schools.<br /><br />So instead of actually making the world a safer place for children, it destroyed many lives and left the children - if anything - more impaired by their exposure to a legal system which cannot comprehend certain types of evil... but did not hesitate to expose their young minds to a web of pornographic insinuation.<br /><br />In the case of the priests, we have actual crimes, but somehow I sense that children will not be more secure when the dust settles. The Church will clean house, and things will be much better there, but the Abuser will take on another form and continue somewhere else under its new guise.Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-79725979886035242232011-04-12T11:16:42.058-04:002011-04-12T11:16:42.058-04:00The way you put it, Montag ("calls upon...for...The way you put it, Montag ("calls upon...for support") is not the way I read that closing statement. It could be read as saying that Dawkins has a balanced view.ADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-35042943951025308422011-04-12T10:52:35.752-04:002011-04-12T10:52:35.752-04:00I followed the links and read the text.
I find it...I followed the links and read the text.<br /><br />I find it odd that the article calls upon Richard Dawkins, arch-atheist, for support at the very end. <br />It struck me as bizarre as saying, "Look, here! Beezelbub is rotten to the core, but he thinks highly of us! So rally round, folks!"<br /><br />What's good enough for atheists is good enough for the rest of you riff-raff? Is that what they said there?Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.com