This is thousands just in the last decade, doesn't count the ones from before that so yes thousands not just according to be but according to the Vatican. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vatican-reveals-how-many-priests-defrocked-for-sex-abuse-since-2004/ Ancient history, not at all, here is one recent one for you, not just a priest but a Vatican Official http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-to-stand-trial-for-child-abuse-10381840.html
Fact, the Vatican has defrocked or otherwise penalized over 3400 priests just in the last decade. Some people may bring bogus cases but that does not excuse the thousands of rightful claims of sexual abuse of children by priests.
You are a joke, thousands of legit cases, thousands of priests defrocked or penalized by the church, hundreds if not thousands put in jail or on probation. Many only got away with it because of the statute of limitations.
So the attorney you posted about stated 1/2 of the 100 cases he had were legit yet you claim that there are only 4 legit cases. That is just one attorney with at least 50 cases, much more than your claim of 4. Never mind that the Vatican axed or otherwise penalized over 3400 priests. You are a joke.
Just so we are all on the same page, thousands and thousands of years ago, God was bored from being in existence for billions of years by himself. He wanted something to keep him busy so he created the heavens and earth. The earth was dull and boring and covered in water for some reason. Then he said to himself "let there be light." He felt awkward because he realized that he was talking to himself. He called the light "day" and the darkness "night", which is odd because he didn't create the sun yet. On the fourth day he created the sun and the moon, but didn't quite understand that the moon doesn't actually light up. On the 5th day, God spoke to the animals and told them to fuck and have children. On the 6th day, God said "let's make mankind in our image", not realizing that you can't have an "our" without at least another being in the room. On the seventh day, God was tired and he rested. God actually went to the gym and ran on the treadmill because he realized that an omnipotent being should't get tired. This is just the first chapter of the bible. If you haven't caught wind of the bullshit by now, I doubt that you'll ever smell it.
Chapters 2 and 3 of Genesis. God grabbed some dirt from the floor and made Adam. He then took one of Adam's ribs and made Eve. He then told Adam and Eve that they can eat whatever the fuck they want except for the forbidden fruit. He then sent a talking snake to trick Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. God then played Marco Polo with Eve and found her hiding behind a tree because she was ashamed of her vaginal odor. The omniscient guy who knew that Eve was going to eat the forbidden fruit got angry at the very thing that he planned for her to do. He punished her and all women by giving them painful birth and making them subservient to their husbands. He also got pissed at the snake and banished him to crawl on his belly and eat dirt for eternity. We know this is true because snakes still eat dirt to this very day.
Genesis 4 Cain and Abel are born. Cain murders his brother Abel. Damn, we are only 4 chapters in and God already fucked up and allowed a brother to kill a brother. Rumor has it that he was planning on how to talk to people using toast, helping people find car keys and Tim Tebow's TD pass in OT. Then some guy named Lamech has two wives. WTF? What happened to traditional marriage? One man and two women. It's almost as if people don't even read the bible. Stay tuned for more bible study.
Didn't Lamech also kill a bunch of people? He killed Cain, his own grandfather, because he couldn't see who he aimed his bow at and because he was so angry about that he killed his own son.
Seems there is a bunch of people with two wives, many people killing people and the lord commanding Moses to go to war with the Midianites, killed the kings, men and non virgins but kept all the virgins for themselves to use as they please. 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you. What kind of God approves of murder, rape, and slavery?
If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife. Kill the rape victim, makes absolute sense.
"Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." Nice, burn everyone and everything as an offering? What happened to this god that loves everyone?
Listed below are just a few of the things the bible orders people be murdered for doing. All those pedophile priest are damn lucky the law of the U.S. was followed and not the bible, otherwise there would be a few thousand dead priests. Based on all truth4's lying in this thread the bible would probably call for his killing also. A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives. All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death.
I forgot how disgusting and repulsive the bible was. Anyone who follows that book must be morally bankrupt.
