Couldn't have happened to a nicer bumch of people

[Ravi]

Church of Scientology on trial in France - Yahoo! News

Fraud is putting it mildly.

Bigot, much? At least they don't make brides of thirteen year old girls.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests has cost the U.S. church morethan $1.5 billion since 1950. The following is a list of some of thelargest known payouts to victims since the crisis intensified in 2002with revelations that a molester priest was moved among parishes in theBoston Archdiocese without alerting parents or police:

_ Diocese of Orange, Calif., 2004, $100 million for 90 abuse claims.

_ Diocese of Covington, Ky., 2006, up to $85 million for roughly 350 people.

_ Archdiocese of Boston, 2003, $85 million for 552 claims.

_ Archdiocese of Los Angeles, 2006, $60 million for 45 lawsuits.

_ Diocese of Oakland, Calif., 2005, $56 million to 56 people.

_ Archdiocese of Louisville, Ky., 2003, $25.7 million to 243 victims.

_Diocese of Tucson, Ariz., 2005, agrees to fund a settlement trust worthabout $22 million for more than 50 victims as part of a plan to emergefrom bankruptcy protection.

Published: Friday, December 1, 2006 10:31 PST

1.5 billion do you really think that covers less then let's say 500,000? Because you would have to be living in a cave to not realize that for ever one who came out and spoke against what happened to them... there were at least 10 more that couldn't.

Because I am new for some reason, I don't know why, I am not allowed to post a URL, to link you to the stats...


Now how many how many adults (not children) were defrauded by Scientology?

That's millions of DOLLARS, bigot. Not millions of kids. Thanks for proving that you're just a dumbass like all prejudiced people.

First off, I said billions of dollars, not millions. Big difference. Why am I a bigot? Because I seek to challenge someone's comment against a belief by exposing one of the most common beliefs is just as criminal? If you are of faith, that shame belongs to you not me, considering I am not of faith. The sad thing in reading your response, is that you apparently don't understand it shouldn't have even been just one kid. People like you that excuse it, like you just did are just a criminal as the people who committed it. Remember the money given didn't cover hush money, or many years before it was exposed, that makes the numbers inacurate. Tell me, how many people died in the name of Scientology, verses how many people died in the name of Christianity? Bet you can't.

If recognizing the hypocracy of condeming any religion while being a part of one that is just as destroctive if not more, makes me a dumb ass. I would glady wear a medal of honor labeling me as one. Thank you for gifting me with that medal.

I feel sorry for you. Let's hope, for your sake God doesn't exist, shall we?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Church of Scientology on trial in France - Yahoo! News

Fraud is putting it mildly.

Bigot, much? At least they don't make brides of thirteen year old girls.

Nor does ANY respectable Church. Go ahead now and make the absolutely FALSE claim mine does.

I have proven to you and others here over and over it simply is not now, nor was ever true.

 

[Tinktink]

That's millions of DOLLARS, bigot. Not millions of kids. Thanks for proving that you're just a dumbass like all prejudiced people.

First off, I said billions of dollars, not millions. Big difference. Why am I a bigot? Because I seek to challenge someone's comment against a belief by exposing one of the most common beliefs is just as criminal? If you are of faith, that shame belongs to you not me, considering I am not of faith. The sad thing in reading your response, is that you apparently don't understand it shouldn't have even been just one kid. People like you that excuse it, like you just did are just a criminal as the people who committed it. Remember the money given didn't cover hush money, or many years before it was exposed, that makes the numbers inacurate. Tell me, how many people died in the name of Scientology, verses how many people died in the name of Christianity? Bet you can't.

If recognizing the hypocracy of condeming any religion while being a part of one that is just as destroctive if not more, makes me a dumb ass. I would glady wear a medal of honor labeling me as one. Thank you for gifting me with that medal.

I feel sorry for you. Let's hope, for your sake God doesn't exist, shall we?

I don't think I brought "God" into this discussion. I think I focused on menkind and religion. And whether you want to admit it or not, both are not one in same.

 

[HUGGY]

Church of Scientology on trial in France - Yahoo! News

Fraud is putting it mildly.

I would call it for what it is. Extortion

 

[TofuDog]

Anyone who has to pay to pray at a church or wherever is a sucker

 

[Shogun]

I have to say... It's rich as fuck that a mormon would post this thread criticizing ANYONE whose personal faith is the product of the nutbat imagination of some supremely crazy nutter.


SERIOUSLY.