Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00682)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Andrew Smith wrote:
> > LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29 — People who say they were sexually abused 
by 
> > priests could receive more than $1.5 billion in damages from The 
> > Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles -- more than any other 
U.S. 
> > diocese has paid, an attorney for more than 100 alleged victims 
said 
> > Sunday.
> > 
> > Nuff said???
> 
> No. What's your point?
> 
> Bart

Bart, I was similarly abused in a Protestant church when a boy, and 
this kind of thing just makes me rage! I finally lost all faith in 
institutional religion and religion generally. Does "terror in the 
name of God" only have to be by al-Queda militants???