Roman Catholic convent

If you have some time on your hands check this out. It will shock you.

http://www.benabraham.com/html/escaped_to_serve_god.html

[Edited on Sep 08, 2004 by ThisIsIt]

woah. I don't know what to think about that. It took a long time to read, but dang.

*cough* *cough* BULLSHIT!!!! *cough* *cough*

I could tell within the first paragraph that this was fiction. An anonymous nun at an unnamed convent in an unknown location ... bullshit!!!!

That link starts with a letter to the editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch claiming that Catholics now have to sign a form releasing the Church from lawsuits in the case of sexual abuse. Care to place a wager as to whether the St. Louis Post Dispatch will corroborate the claim that they published such a letter? Better yet ... it shouldn't be hard to go to a Catholic school and get a copy of that form right? I live down the street from a Catholic school -- I should be able to get one of those forms today right?

I'm not a Catholic. I'm not even religous. God who? The Pope is an asshole. But ... this link is just a bunch of lies being circulated by a hate group.

There are a number of really bizarro American Protestant groups who've spread some pretty outrageous lies about the Roman Catholic Church. A group called The Crusaders wrote a series of comic books that alledged things like how priests and nuns meet and have sex in secret tunnels connecting convents and monestaries. These tunnels are also where they discard aborted fetuses conceived during their unholy sexual relations. And if you believe that crap ...

It didn't take much work to find information debunking this phony nun held prisoner story:

http://www.angelfire.com/ms/seanie/forgeries/charlottewells.html

I think the only thing that's shocking is that anyone would post a link to this crap.


[Edited on Sep 08, 2004 by BandsAcrossUSA]

I agree fully. I grew up Traditional Catholic (Mad Max is my old church's new hero), and I know the Catholic Church inside and out. I couldn't believe the letter in the beginning, and the "sister's" claim that she had no Bible in her house so she didn't know the "True" way of salvation sounds like every Protestant's false claim about Catholics. Catholics DO have Bibles in their homes. They have more books in their Bibles than Protestants, as Protestants were unhappy with some and claimed "THESE books are not the word of God, but the other ones are okay by us!" Not only this, the way the higher-ups "influence" the nun sound just like Protestant propaganda.

That being said, I am not Catholic nor Protestant, nor Christian by any traditional means. I am agnostic. But I know propaganda when I see it, and I have respect for all religions until someone starts throwing shit.

I posted it because it was an interesting story. Is it true? No one will ever know. It's just as far fetched as alot of religions. I posted it for a couple reasons....to kill time, to see what other people would say, and to get a little more involved in the sight. I know nothing of religion and I am not exposed to much propaganda. I do, however, have a very vivid imagination. And this story launched some disturbing slide shows through my head.

it issss a good story, even if slightly ridiculous... it's like a movie!

Not seeing a priest until the age of 21? (Who said Mass in the convent? The nuns sure as hell can't).

No Bible in a Roman Catholic home? Show me a Catholic home, devout enough to have an on-call confessional priest, that doesn't have crucifixes and Bibles in every room. What do they do with their palm fronds on Palm Sunday? Drape them on cupboards?

I saw waaaaay too many errors in that to believe it.