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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's been a trope since at least the 1500s that clergy are pedos, "Julius Excluded from Heaven" by Erasmus contains this exchange between Saint Peter and the recently deceased pope Julius:

PETER: [... ] I hope it won't be too tiresome for you to answer a few clumsy questions about the details. Who, for example, are these little curly-headed striplings? JULIUS: I brought them up for my diversion.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090326073147/www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/lansing/classes/hist4b/materials/Week7.pdf

[–] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes but statistics indicate priests are not more likely to be pedophiles than any other profession that works regularly with children.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem with the catholic church isn't just that a lot of preists are predators, it's that the church covered up these crimes and moved preists to new places where they could continue being predators

[–] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

You're right, my comment didn't address how the church protects predators compared to other professions that work with kids.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Statistics need someone to report them, and someone to record them.

If you haven't experienced it you don't know how tightly faith communities protect the people they worship.