{"id":2147,"date":"2010-04-06T10:16:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2010-04-06T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:16:34","slug":"institutionalized-child-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/institutionalized-child-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutionalized child rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More from PZ Myers on the Catholic Church&#8217;s institutionalization of child rape.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pharyngula - How bad can a Catholic priest get?\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2010\/04\/how_bad_can_a_catholic_priest.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How bad can a Catholic priest get?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Meanwhile, the Pope heads a Catholic office that was sheltering child-rapers, and the entire Catholic hierarchy is busily claiming the martyrdom of Christ for itself because people have started to complain about their intrusive little penises. They aren&#8217;t even trying for the moral flood plain, let alone the moral high ground. It&#8217;s more like they&#8217;re taking a dive in the Marianas Trench of turpitude while pretending to climb the Everest of propriety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The difference between an organization with &#8220;a few bad apples&#8221; and the Catholic Church is that the church has institutionalized child rape. It&#8217;s not just a case of a good organization having some bad people. The church, at its highest levels, has repeatedly re-employed rapists, deceived parishioners, and trivialized child abuse&#8230; as a matter of policy!<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church, as an organization, is rotten at its core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from PZ Myers on the Catholic Church&#8217;s institutionalization of child rape. How bad can a Catholic priest get? Meanwhile, the Pope heads a Catholic office that was sheltering child-rapers, and the entire Catholic hierarchy is busily claiming the martyrdom of Christ for itself because people have started to complain about their intrusive little penises. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/institutionalized-child-rape\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Institutionalized child rape&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[157,158,171,172,189,617,633,634,643,667],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","tag-catholic-church","tag-catholicism","tag-child-abuse","tag-child-rape","tag-church","tag-pedophile","tag-pope","tag-pope-benedict","tag-priests","tag-ratzinger","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}