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rurallib

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2. It is a business and as such needs customers to buy their stuff

Reply to trotsky (Original post)

Tue Jun 4, 2019, 11:10 AM

Jun 2019

otherwise they go out of business. I am frankly surprised they have kept as much of their customer base as they have.

I was one of those kids who was abused by a priest in the late 50s. That was one priest, but all the other priests I knew also led very unpriestly lives.

When all this started coming out in the 2000s I had long since left the church. A friend persuaded me to go to a meeting for those abused. The priest doing the meeting told me that such things were no good reason to leave the church. My reaction was that the priest must be insane.

Why would a customer continue to trade where they treated their customers like that?

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Priest Begs Parishioners Not to Leave Church Over Rhode Island Bishop's Anti-LGBTQ Tweets [View all] trotsky Jun 2019 OP

The Bishop has clearly stated the position of the RCC edhopper Jun 2019 #1

It is a business and as such needs customers to buy their stuff rurallib Jun 2019 #2

leaving people equals less $$. that's all the church cares about nt msongs Jun 2019 #3