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10-09-2017, 06:41 AM | #1 | |||
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41200949
Absolute wickedness. Why does religion and abuse and mass murder so often go hand in hand? We are often told that you can't blame religion for the actions of some followers so why does this kind of thing seem to happen again and again? It's absolutely toxic.
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10-09-2017, 07:33 AM | #2 | ||
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Those poor children had such awful, short little lives knowing nothing but suffering. It's things like that that make me wish there was an after-life and they got another chance at it. |
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10-09-2017, 10:44 AM | #3 | ||
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Bloody disgusting
I do think people just use religion as an excuse though, and they would be sick ****s either way. If they didn't have religion to blame stuff on, they would find something else.
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10-09-2017, 10:54 AM | #4 | |||
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Disgusting, such a shame they were discovered after the perps can face justice. Hopefully their God is burning them.
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10-09-2017, 10:58 AM | #5 | ||
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This is disgusting but is another in a list of many. Really horrifying. Nothing more to add to what you've said. |
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10-09-2017, 11:04 AM | #6 | |||
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1870-1930, approx a third of them under 5 years old.
Only 24 over the age of 15. All natural causes, all buried in a graveyard. As it was a children's home, and taking the dates into account and the illnesses they died from I don't find anything surprising. Does anybody realisically think that back in the day these children would be given individual graves with headstones, that would be lovingly attended with fresh flowers every week. Unfortunately in times gone by there was nothing unusual in burying hundreds of babies, children and adults in one corner of a graveyard if no family could come forward and pay for a funeral. |
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10-09-2017, 11:08 AM | #7 | ||
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Seems a lot of kids for such a short timespan to me really...I know the article claims 'most' died of natural causes but something just doesn't sit right about the whole thing :S
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10-09-2017, 11:15 AM | #8 | |||
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Yeah, if there were say ... 20 kids, I could buy it, back then it's conceivable one or more kid might die of natural causes, but THAT many? No.
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10-09-2017, 11:16 AM | #9 | |||
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Pleurisy, pneumonia and TB was rife without the cures and vaccinations we take for granted now. |
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10-09-2017, 12:47 PM | #10 | ||
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I do understand the diseases issue.
This place was it seems run by Nuns of the order of St Vincent. We hear a lot about respect and dignity of the individual and in the Catholic faith,last rites with oil and incense plus holy water used at funerals over the coffins. Mass graves are and should be an affront to that,little wonder the order of Nuns this home was under,does not want to comment. It's shocking pure and simple in my opinion. Last edited by joeysteele; 10-09-2017 at 09:32 PM. |
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10-09-2017, 03:27 PM | #11 | |||
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10-09-2017, 03:38 PM | #12 | |||
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With regard to the deaths they are hardly going to put down neglect and abuse as the cause but that's a lot of children in unmarked graves.
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10-09-2017, 03:42 PM | #13 | |||
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10-09-2017, 03:45 PM | #14 | |||
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10-09-2017, 03:46 PM | #15 | |||
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Hmm, in the context of the article though?
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10-09-2017, 03:52 PM | #16 | |||
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I already answered you, not playing, last response.
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10-09-2017, 03:53 PM | #17 | |||
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10-09-2017, 03:55 PM | #18 | |||
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Well are we supposed to discuss the article or the words in your OP, they're two very different conversations.
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10-09-2017, 03:56 PM | #19 | |||
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Infant mortality in England and Wales peaked in the 1890s at a tremendously high rate of approximately 150 deaths per 1000 births. These statistics demonstrate that, for both the adults and children that family historians study, the world was a dangerous place! The situation today is, of course, much improved.
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10-09-2017, 07:02 PM | #20 | |||
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10-09-2017, 08:41 PM | #21 | |||
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ok what's your point? It was still an era of poverty and early death
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10-09-2017, 09:36 PM | #22 | ||
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Different times does not really wash with me,some Nuns could be really horrible individuals and don't let us get started on child abuse across the board as to both Nuns and Priests. |
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10-09-2017, 09:43 PM | #23 | ||
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For the same reason despicable things happen time and time again outside of religion... humanity is despicable.
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10-09-2017, 10:17 PM | #24 | ||
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However religious orders run services should be a place,I feel should be anyway , where children and even people are kept safe and respected. Hearing of this and as was shown on the news tonight, the disrespect of unmarked mass graves,should be a disgrace. Especially when further up from said mass graves are the detailed,tidy and well cleaned headstones of the deceased Nuns. Religious orders,just about all of them, should show example of decency and respect for individuals, children and adults, especially however any entrusted to their care. Last edited by joeysteele; 10-09-2017 at 10:18 PM. |
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10-09-2017, 10:21 PM | #25 | ||
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I just think it's reductive to reduce it to "Why does this keep on happening in religion?" when things keep on happening in the world, religion or no. Us humans should be loving and accepting of one another but it eludes us because humanity can be the most dangerous and disgusting thing. |
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