The secret history of Catholic caregivers and the AIDS epidemic

[MineralMan]

27. Well, that trick never works out well for Monsieur B.

As I said, there were (and are) people of all sorts who helped people with AIDS back then and now, regardless of what church they went to or no church at all. It's because they're good people regardless of what their church teaches. Some people are full of compassion and free of bigotry, regardless of their religious beliefs. What those people were doing to help had nothing to do with Catholicism or "theism." It was just good, caring people doing what good, caring people do.

And so it is and has always been. Some priests I have known have been caring, compassionate people. Others have sexually molested children. It has nothing to do with their religious affiliations. Nothing whatsoever. They'd have been that way, regardless.

Monsieur B. likes to point out such good, caring people and attribute their attitudes to their beliefs. At the same time, he decries anyone pointing out people who are doing terrible things, and who are also religious. The difference between the caring people who helped AIDS patients and the child molesters is that the organized Roman Catholic Church didn't like what the caring people were doing. At the same time, it was hiding child-abusing priests from exposure and shipping them around to other parishes to do the same things there. You'd think it approved of the child abuse, but not the compassionate care for the ill.

In one case, the Church did not support those who were caring for people who had a disease, but did support people who were sexually abusing children. So, the church is involved in support, but not with the good group. Instead, it supported those who were causing harm.

Monsieur B. doesn't understand the difference between the two behaviors by the RCC, apparently. The rest of us understand that he has convinced himself that the church is good for society. He will hear no evidence to the contrary.