At 05:33 PM Sunday 9/3/2006, William T Goodall wrote:
On 3 Sep 2006, at 11:19PM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 9/3/06, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And the Catholic Church is the
largest pedophile ring in the world. That's pretty criminal and
they've been covering that up for centuries.
That is an absolutely ridiculous statement. Dan posted a very clear
analysis here during the height of the recent "pedophilia" scandal
that
showed that rates of pedophilia among Catholic priests was no
higher than in
the general population at large,
But the general public isn't an organisation.
Not relevant. If frex we are interested in the representation of a
certain minority among the employees of a business, we generally ask
if the fraction of the business's employees who are members of that
minority is less than, equal to, or greater than the fraction of the
local community who are members of that minority.
*Even if* the rate is
lower in individual priests than in the public at large the CC is
*still* the largest organisation that harbours and covers up for
pedophiles.
Unless you consider marriage as an organization as well as an
"institution." Particularly re-marriage where the woman brings
children from her earlier marriage(s) to the new marriage.
I mean it's not something you hear about the Ford Motor Company. Even
Enron didn't do it.
AFAIK no one accused Ford or Enron employees in general of child
abuse. For your remark to be relevant one would have to collect
statistics on child abuse committed by the employees of those or
other large corporations and compare it to the frequency of child
abuse among the population as a whole. You do have a point in that a
better comparison might be to school employees, as something schools
and churches have in common (which large corporations like Ford or
Enron do not) is that parents turn over their young children to both
organizations for several hours at a time and generally trust that
they will be properly treated and returned in as good shape as they
were when they were dropped off.
Small Print Maru
Plain Test Only Maru
-- Ronn! :)
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