text: You liberals always hark back to the bishops and child abuse. Hardly ever do we hear the abusing priests criticised in this forum, it is always the bishops. You know as well as I do that the bishops are subject to the Commandments and binding teaching of the Church just like everyone else. Like the rest of us, if they have done wrong they will account for it if not in this world then in the next. You don't appear to extend your 'shades of grey' theory to them.
  This shades of grey theory supposes that the vast majority of us don't know what day it is. That life is fraught with so many problems that we cannot come to any rational decision as to what is right and what is wrong. Those of us who bother to examine our consciences and let's face it I doubt that many people even Christians do, atheists and agnostics certainly won't as they mainly subscribe to the animal instinct of self-preservation, need guidance as our intellects and wills are flawed through Original Sin.
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