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Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

rug

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10. There's way too much of that going on.

Reply to hedgehog (Reply #7)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 12:16 PM

Jun 2014

Whenever the Church steps in it there will always be people to trot out the talking points regardless of the facts at hand. It almost doesn't matter what the particular scandal is.

The net result is that the facts don't get out but the bias is strengthened.

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"796 Babies In A Septic Tank": Does An Anti-Catholic Bias Help Explain This Hoax? [View all] rug Jun 2014 OP

So .... there were no dead babies in a hole in the ground? Trajan Jun 2014 #1

Read it again. rug Jun 2014 #2

Much like the pedophile priests stories Al Carroll Jun 2014 #3

Welcome to DU, Al. rug Jun 2014 #4

Anti-Catholic bias may well be the main culprit in the false story, but IrishAyes Jun 2014 #5

The Mirror was driving much of this. rug Jun 2014 #6

I've missed this group while off on what turned out to be a fool's errand, IrishAyes Jun 2014 #9

Wow, that sucks. rug Jun 2014 #11

The one thing the front man was great at was PR; he appeared on nearly a dozen IrishAyes Jun 2014 #12

That's too bad. rug Jun 2014 #13

I attempted to point out that certain details were untrue - hedgehog Jun 2014 #7

Society wants a bogeyman to deflect attention from its own culpability, IrishAyes Jun 2014 #8

There's way too much of that going on. rug Jun 2014 #10