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The Catholic Church, Pedophilia, and Confession as Blackmail
from A Victimless Crime with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show #359 · #359
6 min
A long dive into Catholic Church sex abuse scandals, comparing it to Greek Orthodox and other religions, discussing celibacy as a recruiting mechanism for predators, and the property/inheritance reasons priests can't marry.
- Tim argues organized religion is central to child trafficking, citing the Franklin Scandal and Boy Town.
- Tim's guest asks not to discuss the Catholic Church negatively before his mother's wake tomorrow.
- Guest reveals he's Greek Orthodox, describing it as Catholicism where priests can marry and don't rape millions of boys.
- Greeks invented pedophilia and started everything, Tim says, though he credits the elites and city-states rather than ordinary citizens.
- Catholic Church is the Michael Jordan of raping children, Tim argues, but guest insists there are positives.
- Positives of the Catholic Church include it being the one true faith, owning stunning real estate and art, and representing centuries of civilization and ritual.
- French expose found 300,000 children abused since the 1970s; Tim estimates the real number is ten times higher and questions why parents leave kids alone with priests.
- Between 1915 and 2020, 216,000 children were abused by Catholic priests—probably a vast undercount, Tim says.
- Celibacy requirement attracts people with problems; confession is blackmail, and removal of women removes whistleblowers on child abuse.
- Confession functions as blackmail, which Tim identifies as the core structural problem of the entire system.
- Priests were allowed to marry until pedophiles took over; the celibacy rule was actually about money—the Church didn't want property passing to priests' sons.
- Every religion has molestation problems, guest notes, but Tim counters that Islam and Judaism have none while Catholicism and Protestantism are the issue.
- Protestants are dirty pig people, Tim declares, and both agree on the assessment.
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