Posted by beckett2 on March 6, 2019, at 14:32:48
In reply to Impunity, posted by sigismund on March 5, 2019, at 15:37:13
> That article was impossible to satirise.
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> As you know the 3rd man in the Catholic Church, Cardinal George Pell, is in jail in Australia on child abuse charges.
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> There were decades of events covered up or not dealt with. One, impossible to satirise, is when 2 priests enter a school yard, grab hold of an 11 year old boy and carry him off screaming to be raped elsewhere.
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> Yet we (still?) live with a sense of normalcy and progress.
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> Well, they have locked Pell up. I never thought I would live to see it.It's like an evil, destructive sort of zen koan. To understand it snaps your mind.
My grandmother used to say sometimes of someone or other, 'hell isn't good enough'.
like a bird on a wire
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