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skepticscott

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7. Inevitably..giving both the hardline, child-beating

Fri Feb 6, 2015, 05:53 PM

Feb 2015

Catholic conservatives and the pseudo-progressive pope-lovers something to get all giddy about.

Of course, physical abuse of children that falls short of criminal sexual conduct has been a Catholic mainstay for ages. Older folk who grew up in Catholic school were so brainwashed to accept it as normal that they just laugh about being beaten by the nuns, as if it were a good thing.

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How do you spank a child without humiliating them? Curmudgeoness Feb 2015 #1

And always with a rubber hose, so as to not leave marks. Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #2

Or oranges in a pillow case. Goblinmonger Feb 2015 #5

Spare the rod spoil the brainwashing. Exultant Democracy Feb 2015 #3

Anybody here wanna bet this statement will be walked back by Sunday? JDDavis Feb 2015 #4

Naw, not this one. trotsky Feb 2015 #6

So abusing children by adults is just fine? Because God ! JDDavis Feb 2015 #9

Inevitably..giving both the hardline, child-beating skepticscott Feb 2015 #7

Actually, a badge of honor Brainstormy Feb 2015 #11

Exactly skepticscott Feb 2015 #13

"How beautiful!" I wonder, does Pope Awesome have useful guidelines on mr blur Feb 2015 #8

Nausea, lite Brainstormy Feb 2015 #10

This is the second time pope has labeled violence as normal Lordquinton Feb 2015 #12

the Pope thing is so abstract olddots Feb 2015 #14

then they come up with a Pope AlbertCat Feb 2015 #15