>>6126975 Ex-Pope Benedict justifying pedos.
Shill baker.
From the article:
>The church’s still-radiating crisis, Benedict suggests, was a product of the moral laxity that swept the West, and not just the church, in the 1960s. The young rebels of 1968, Benedict writes, fought for “all-out sexual freedom, one which no longer conceded any norms.”
>Benedict adds: “Part of the physiognomy of the Revolution of 1968 was that pedophilia was now also diagnosed as allowed and appropriate.” This might strike contemporary readers as puzzling. But those who lived through that wretched decade will remember that some of the leading ’68ers also advocated “anti-authoritarian education,” which involved some pretty unsavory interactions between adults and children. Hippie communes weren’t child-friendly places, either.
>“I have always wondered how young people in this situation could approach the priesthood and accept it, with all its ramifications,” Benedict writes. “The extensive collapse of the next generation of priests in those years and the very high number of laicizations were consequence of all these processes.”
>The church, in other words, was no more immune to the disorders of that decade and its aftermath than the rest of society.
To summarize the argument: The church is full of people. Those people lived through '68. Those people are therefore a product of '68. This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_march_through_the_institutions is real.
So of course the church was subverted. Just like your government was subverted. Why do you think pedophilia binds them? Because the evil seeped into all positive forces of society.
Does that justify it? No. But it certainly isn't an incorrect analysis from this anon's perspective. Is it?
And to boil that whole analysis down to "Ex-Pope Benedict justifying pedos." is just gross. And that's from someone who used to be Catholic and refuses to associate with those people due to the scourge the church has become. Fuck them. But at least they're starting to see the fucking problem.