there’s a YouTube channel I watch on a semi-regular basis, Zach Costello. He’s an interesting guy, very opinionated, and for my entertainment, clearly a conspiracy theorist. He has been openly doubtful of the official story of Charlie Kirk’s murder last year and spends an inordinate amount of time on his channel, discussing the case directly, or the machinations of turning Point, Kirk’s company now run by his widow.
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Once in a while, I like to take a look at the state of religious belief where I live, the United States. I don’t really think it changes much overall, but it’s always been curious to me how we who live here identify as a Judeo-Christian nation when that couldn’t be further from the truth. If we could be identified with any belief, it would be a Christian nation because out of the 350 million people that live here, some 66% identify as Christian. That’s 231 million Christians. More than any other country in the world.
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I’ve been writing about the abuses in the Catholic Church for a while. Just do a search from the Home Page here using “Catholic Church” and you’ll discover at least seven posts since the middle of August. This will the the eighth. What I don’’t understand is what appears to be the lack of outrage over these abuses and it seems like every few weeks or months, another one is discovered. Of course it’s easy to ignore because of the news cycle. within seventy-two hours after initial reports, the latest outrage has virtually disappeared. I would think that the sheer number of abuse victims – including Nuns – would keep these stories front and center if not with the media, then the general public.
I recently viewed a tweet that said: Can we label them a criminal organization yet? The reason I mention that tweet is it is precisely what I was thinking at the time. How much does it take for the government, any government, to stand up and not just take notice, but to prosecute what more and more seem to be referring to as a criminal organization? I’m not naive enough to believe that anything substantial will ever happen, but maybe someday, someone will decide to take a stand a shut down this corrupt organization.
I know I said at one time I was going to continue to write about the Catholic Church and the abuses, over decades, of children. I’ve been negligent. It’s not as if in the interim that the church has come out and blamed the victims or that more recently, blamed gay priests for all of the abuses over time. I found in both of those instances how little, if any media coverage those outrageous statements received in the media. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might tend to believe that media are covering for child abusers.