I'm old enough to remember everyone getting all bent out of shape by Sinead O'Connor ripping up a picture of the Pope.

She was a couple of years early, but right.

Religion is fucked up.

Don’t trust any religious people.

They’re all sick in the head.

Satanic Panic was projection.

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home .

The mothers were required to stay inside the home for one year, doing unpaid work for the nuns, as reimbursement for some of the services rendered. They were separated from their children, who remained separately in the home, raised by nuns, until they could be adopted – often without consent.

Some women who had had two confinements were sent directly to nearby Magdalene laundries after giving birth, as punishment for their perceived "recidivism". According to Professor Maria Luddy, "Such a stance, though not intended to be penal, allowed for the development of an attitude that accepted detention as a means of protecting society from these reoffending women.

Confinements. Punishment. Detention. Reoffending women.

To the "religion is what makes us civil" crowd, fuck off all the way to whatever hell you believe in or just the sun.

Disclaimer: This is not a call for violence.

Religion has historically provided a safe haven to the sick and twisted among society, where they're allowed to act with impunity due to their perceived status.

That's not directly due to the religion; but rather due to the societal pedestal being devout seems to put people on; "a holy person could never do that to a child" etc...

The reality is, other areas that benefit from this sort of status too find themselves riddled with bad actors... Just look through charity organisations and I can guarantee you'll be combing over a sea of sociopaths buying themselves good credit with public opinion rather than people looking to make a difference because they want to (not to say these people don't exist; they just don't end up running the show normally)

Every time I run into a pro lifer, I tell them about what happened in Ireland.

Most of them ignore me, some say it's worth it.

If your society cannot or will not support an unmarried pregnant woman on her own, your society is a failed one.

My dad recent got a decent payout for being the internationally trafficked childhood victim of one of these unwed mother homes…

Not worth his lifetime of trauma, nor the issues that came with being sold at age 4 to a “keeping up appearances” family that sent him away to boarding school on top of everything..

But it’s something.. he’s mid 70s, so you know, totally enough time to use the money.

How could these nuns think they would be admitted to heaven?

Religion is such hypocrisy. No wonder people are turning away.

On one hand, they tell people don't use birth control, no abortion ; on the other hand, they don't protect them.

My brain took a moment to register the word infant. As in the child was already born.

What the fuck

I love how the headline says as if this happened recently. Clowns.

All these institutions of god trying to tell us our souls will be saved if we follow them. and that the "other" religions are prophligates, infidels, devils and heretics. LMAO

I've yet to find one that isn't hiding a history of butchery

But abortion is immoral, right?

Looks like all the kids died of disease? Definitely evidence that the world has gotten better not worse.

This is probably from poor medical care.

religions don't deserve to exist.

Sick bunch of Penguins.