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  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialtopolitics @lemmy.world•MAGA melts down over ‘WOKE MARXIST POPE’ who is a ‘Never Trumper liberal’
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    1 day ago

    On the one hand I definitely understand your argument, and its one Ive basically accepted as reasonable my entire life including when I was practicing Catholicism a long time ago as a kid.

    However, in thinking about what you wrote I do question if there isnt a logical consistency in the idea that if there was no confessional seal that people who do the most heinous things would not repent.

    I suppose its plausible that a child abuser wouldnt go to confess that if they knew the priest had to pass that information along, however I think the logical inconsistency is that they would then be at risk of dying without having confessed such a grave sin. Which hypothetically if they were a true believer of what the church teaches would be worse than any earthly punishment imaginable.

    Now, if they simply didnt confess it to avoid prosecution then one might argue that they dont actually hold sincere beliefs and that the same person was simply using religion as a means to access and abuse kids. If they dont hold sincere beliefs then legally speaking they receive no protection under the law

    The other thing is that is must be psychologically tormenting to some degree for priests to know other people are heinous criminals and being powerless to stop them other than saying “turn yourself in”.

    I dont want priests to turn into some kind of reporters of all things to the authorities, but child abuse is among the most gravely disgusting things a person can do, universally, and given the problem of abusers in the church I think it would be great if priests were authorized to report it. Among the other most heinous of crimes like murder and rape and whatnot. Not “I cheated on my taxes” but shit that evidences a clearly dangerous person to others. We should be putting the rights of children and adults to be safe from that shit above the religious “right” of some random person to not be tattled on when they literally did something so awful.

    Really if anything I imagine that the church making a big show of cleansing itself of pedophiles would actually be one of the few things that could bring a lot of people into the church. But I have no skin in that game, I just want to see pedophiles get their due comeuppance

  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialtopolitics @lemmy.world•Republicans fear 'violence' for standing up to Trump — but an 'awakening' is near: experts
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    2 days ago

    Everybody staunchly walks the party line until their own wallet is impacted. With how much he is tanking the country at a certain point they may actually try to boot his ass out.

    A lot of those people have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in the market already, I would assume. That was never a factor in his first term when he had more guardrails on.

    It’s pretty clear at this point he has zero capability of building a functional and competent administration, hes screwed over anyone with half a brain already. Its an administration in the style of your local Walmart or Amazon warehouse now. Pure meat grinder

  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialtopolitics @lemmy.world•These Are Words Scholars Should No Longer Use to Describe Slavery and the Civil War
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    5 days ago

    I agree. I dont think there are many people out there that romanticize the word or concept of a plantation. Hell, Providence, RI is technically called the Providence Plantations, but no one talks about it because of the obvious negative connotations of the word.

    I agree with the other changes mentioned in the article, but I think the word plantation is already culturally derided enough that it is probably worse in the common imaginary than “labor camp”.

    Plus, plantation is just a historically accurate word. They called them plantations at the time, historical documentation refers to properties like that as plantations, so we talk about them as plantations. Plantations are pretty much solely an artifact of slavery at this point. You wouldnt say, “Im going to my uncle’s plantation this weekend” any more than you would say “Im going to my uncle’s labor camp”