Re: I SEE A CONNECTION BETWEEN RELIGION AND PEDOPHILIA--don't know about you, but you'd have to be blind not to notice...

On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:17:54 -0700, "Tom"
<dantPAYATTENTIONomel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"marques de sade" <jesucristo2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> Every time we see on the news all these pedophiles, and they're
>> all connected to religion in some way.
>
>Well, for one thing, the cases you see on the news are only the most 
>sanitary and controversial of the incidents.  Fit to print, as it were. 
>Further, they are the most sensational from a social interest point of
view, 
>such as when a supposedly trustworthy or glamorous figure is exposed. 
This 
>would include religious, educational, or political figures, as well as
the 
>occasional pop star.
>
>The vast majority of pedophile activity is tawdry, revolting, and ugly,
not 
>at all like the cases you see on TV, which are merely shocking and 
>salacious.  People don't want to know about it in detail on the nightly 
>news.  Most would prefer not to know about it at all.  So, if you are 
>relying on the public news broadcasts, you are getting a very skewed
picture 
>of the situation.
>
>

well, if there is activity that you know about that is so common
and the media is totally ignoring it, then there is something
wrong there... they're supposed to re****t the facts, and be
totally objective about it...

if they're skewing the picture on purpose, then that's ****ed up.
if it's unintentional, it's still ****ed up but i'm not as
upset... but something should be done to fix it...
-- 

`We come now to the idea of the Gaeia Universe, where the whole of the
Universe would be a single living entity of which all mankind is barely an
organelle. But unlike the organisms of Earth, the elements of the Universe,
energy and matter, are not connected by the bloody and battering
interaction of consumption that we experience on Earth, but by the same
forces of physics and mechanics which govern the aforementioned
astronomical principles. The concept of pantheism proposes an additional
connection, one of an overarching divine presence. In this divinity, mind
and matter are one, and all things in the Universe are evenly connected''
--B.D. Abramson