Did you actually read what he said? She didn’t get that boy killed, that boy was dead regardless of what she did. She is not responsible for his death. She is responsible for helping the people that were responsible for his death get out of jail.

No, no we did not. We like to say we did, but we really didn’t.

Yes, because throwing an egg at someone is such a bold, powerful argument of why you should not support Trump.

What would have been more effective at shutting him down? Letting him speak and just no one showing up/the people showing up asking some really critical questions (that he then probably can’t answer). Or telling him he can’t speak so he can play the victim card again?

They are changing. Or at least, they are taking the first small steps necessary for more meaningful change later on. Yes the church still feels that homosexuality is a sin, but before they can even begin to adres that they need to change their own narrative about these issues. And you cannot deny the pope is…

You aren’t interested in the survival of the church but I imagine the church is. And I imagine that Catholics care about that as well. And they are the ones that have to change. So when they change, they will do so at their own pace. And if that really is too slow, then maybe you get what you want and the church will…

So what? You think a church lasts long if its spreading a message its members don’t believe in? Its own clergy doesn’t believe in?

Its not and this is not about child abuse really. Its about admitting they were fucking wrong. For them, after carefully building up an image of priests and nuns as men and women with absolute moral authority, admitting that priests and nuns are in fact capable of some of the vilest behavior is incredibly damaging to…

In case you haven’t noticed but most of the world still thinks being gay is shameful and getting an abortion is murder. Gay marriage has only recently become a thing in the US and even in places where homosexuality is much more accepted, something like gay marriage is at best maybe 2-3 decades old. The church is not…

The hierarchy is set up to give the parishioners as little voice as possible, it is essentially a religious monarchy.

Seriously? You already forgot about the numerous cases covered on this site where school officials systematically protected rapists? Sure, those rapists were in most cases students, not teachers, but does that really makes schools better?

The institution would change real quickly if all of the people that make up an institution suddenly decided they should change, sure. But welcome to the real world, where things like that NEVER happen. Real change happens because someone either convinces enough people inside an institution that change is for the best…

Well a few things here. How realistic is it to expect the pope to change the church almost overnight. I mean, we are talking about a 2000 year old institution with certain vieuws that have been entrenched over 2000 years. The church changed its mass language 1500 years after it stopped being a relevant language. Its…

My glass is half full, yours is half empty.

Meh, progress is progress. I don’t think people are applauding whatever minimum standards the church has set for itself, they are applauding the fact that it has set standards for itself. Like you said, its a centuries old institution with unchecked power, its under no actual requirements to move forward.

Why? Its dumb as shit for a Bond movie. The plot makes zero sense. I mean, why the elaborate plot to get captured only to escape using something as stupid as as a super computer virus. And why the fuck would that virus have planned to crash a subway train right through the tunnel conveniently preventing Bond from…

From the looks of it, the modern Israelites still have pretty shitty conflict resolution skills :\

Calling people fascists is anything but an academic course on the problems of Nazism. Obviously when you start pointing fingers at people and yelling ‘FASCIST’ at them they get pissed off. Anyone would, its not exclusive to Germans or Russians.

At least with Germans its safe to say most don’t feel personally insulted if you talk about the problems of Nazism.

Eh, thats a flawed argument. People born in Communist Russia or Nazi Germany couldn’t control that either, but everyone understands that if you start a course about the problems of Nazism or Communism, you are not necessarily criticizing the people that were born into those countries at that time.