I HATE THIS... when will the catholic church... stop blaming the
children??... if this is in the bible... they can burn it... no
wonder... there was so much hatred for us girls...and for boys... the sins of our mother's... not a word about the father's
sins... were thrashed into us children... and we never knew... what the
hell the nuns... were talking about... I didn't know how I came into
this world... until I was 24years old... and even then... I did not know
the meaning of it all... my mother was raped... I did not know that
until 2002... Ann
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In the past the Christian Church condoned all manner of evil
done to children. It tried and executed them for witchcraft
and for other offences. It saw nothing wrong in beating them
frequently and severely for minor wrongdoing — even for
other people's wrongdoing. It terrified them with stories of
Hell. It allowed them to contract arranged marriages. It failed
to speak out against child labour because it saw nothing at
all wrong in the practice.
For many centuries the Church opposed
the education of poor children, except in the few cases where
boys could be drawn into its own service. Girls were denied
education altogether. In punishing children for sins they had
not committed, there seems to have been almost no concept of
fairness or rights. Thus, the Church made much of the concept
of bastardy:
