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DOJ: Church leaders held homeless against will in San Diego and other cities

The homeless being mistreated in places like San Diego... say it isn't so.
 
Jesse Booth said:
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If I wanted to commit unspeakable cruelties against unsuspecting people & get away with it, I can't think of a better cover than that of a church leader, save perhaps for a police officer. Never trust a church or law man until you know them personally.
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Even then I would trust a cop, but not the other.
 
The Church of Scientology has been doing this kind of thing for decades, according to many who have left (escaped) Scientology.
 
Mason66 said:
Even then I would trust a cop, but not the other.
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The majority of both are decent sorts, but I'm personally more cautious about the law men than the church men. I just have to stay away from a church to avoid 100% of a church man's control and predations; cops are a protected class of government agents that hold the powers of life and death at their fingertips, who almost never break rank with each other & who you cannot legally defend yourself from. Worst of all, even when they're objectively out of line, they almost never face any real legal consequences.
 
Jesse Booth said:
The majority of both are decent sorts, but I'm personally more cautious about the law men than the church men. I just have to stay away from a church to avoid 100% of a church man's control and predations; cops are a protected class of government agents that hold the powers of life and death at their fingertips, who almost never break rank with each other & who you cannot legally defend yourself from. Worst of all, even when they're objectively out of line, they almost never face any real legal consequences.
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You are right on how to avoid the church people but anybody that lives their lives against human instinct is dangerous, man or woman.
 
Jesse Booth said:
I'm not entirely sure who you mean by this. Please clarify.
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Priests and nuns live their lives against human instinct and human nature. That is a kettle ready to explode.

Those people cannot be trusted.
 
Mason66 said:
Priests and nuns live their lives against human instinct and human nature. That is a kettle ready to explode.

Those people cannot be trusted.
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Ah. Yes, I'd certainly say that's the case. It used to be even worse, back in the middle ages. Nunneries, in particular, were often the last refuge of women who had burned every bridge they had in life, and needed to adopt a monastic lifestyle after potentially decades of defying social norms. Julie D'Aubigny is a good example of the kind of free-spirited hedonist that would end up living in a nunnery, and the transition literally killed her. Not that a female duelist & opera singer from the 17th century is representative of any group of people, I'm just pointing out an extreme example for perspective.
 
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