You want forgiveness? Get religion.
When you’re a poor kid from a poor family, religion counts for a lot. And when a priest pays attention to you, it’s a big deal.
We do not need to be forgiven by the men of God for protecting our children from the depraved actions of vicious men who are often the very same men we’re meant to ask for forgiveness! If God is a loving God then He will forgive us himself. If God is a vengeful God then He has created us in His image. If God is omnipotent, then why has He not protected the women and girls of this colony? I will destroy any living thing that harms my child. I will tear it limb from limb. I will desecrate its body and I will bury it alive. I will challenge God on the spot to strike me dead if I have sinned by protecting my child from evil, and by destroying that evil that it may not harm another! I will lie, I will hunt, I will kill. I will dance on graves and I will burn forever in hell before I allow another man to satisfy his violent urges with the body of my four-year-old child!
God creates us, expels us from paradise. We wander around for thousands of years killing each other, before he comes back and saves 144,000 of us. Meanwhile, seven-and-a-half billion of us fall into hell.[to Thomas, about the Bible]
What I like about religion is that it assumes that everyone is an idiot and that they’re all incapable of saving themselves. I think they got something right with that. What I don’t like about religion is that when people accept Jesus or whatever, they suddenly think that they’re better than everyone else. By accepting the fact that they’re stupid sinners, somehow they’ve become better, and they turn into a**holes.[to Thomas]
We need to focus on the institution. Not the individual priests. Practice and policy. Show me the Church manipulate the system so this guys wouldn’t have to face charges. Show me they put those same priests back into parishes time and time again. Show me this was systemic that it came from the top down.
Surely there must be something worth living for in this life, not only in the next.[Scarface Janz: Does entering the Kingdom of Heaven mean nothing to any of you?]
Jesus is able to return to life, live for thousands of years and then drop down to Earth from Heaven to scoop up his supporters, surely he’d also be able to locate a few women who left their colony.[Mariche: How will the Lord, when he arrives, find the women if we aren’t in the colony?]
It’s rude to talk about religion. You never know who you’re gonna offend.
