Google| Subject | Re: Governers-General (was Re: Queen mother (of Britain) has died) |
| From | AC |
| Date | 2002-04-04 01:27 (2002-04-04 01:27) |
| Message-ID | <3cab8e7b.171274800@news2.randori.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | David Flood |
| Followups | Donald Shepherd (3h & 24m) |
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:47:19 +0100, "David Flood" <NOSPAMmaoltuile@utvinternet.ie>wrote:
David FloodI admit, I was being a little silly. I find the conduct of Catholic priests, and the Church in general, as repugnant. It's one thing to have errant priests, that has been a problem for centuries. I do not fault religion in general, but those churches in particular who have used their weight with communities and individuals to suppress wrongdoing. It is a crime for which the Catholic Church (and likely others) will be paying monetarily for some time.
I meant 'artficial' social structures - the family is surely the building-block of the *community*.
If you define "unsupervised" as being outside the parent's protection...?
I live in Canada, and up here we had Indian residential school systems run by a number of churches (Catholic, Anglican, etc.) The abuse that went on was horrific. One Anglican diocese in British Columbia has been bankrupted and has ceased to exist. That, I guess, is the ultimate price to pay. But governments have also been labelled by some as being at least partially responsible. The government has a "social" goal of turning Indians into good Anglo-saxons by tearing them away from their parents and placing them in the care of these schools, and never really bothering to check into what was going on.
It is a dark chapter in Canadian history which is painfully coming to light.
--- AaronC
2002-03-30-
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