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The Roman Catholic Church is most often the denomination involved in the scandals. According to a reporter in the *Los Angeles Times*, 13 October 1990, that church had already paid out between $100,000,000 and $300,000,000 to quiet parents whose children were victims of libidinous priests, and had just settled for $22,000,000 claims arising from the libido of a priest who had been convicted in the courts of Louisiana of enticing or forcing thirty-seven altar boys, Boy Scouts, et al. to satisfy his sexual appetites. The *San Diego Tribune*, 21 July 1990, reported that a priest who had been convicted of sexual molestation of some thirty children in 1986, but given probation, had been caught enjoying a fourteen-year-old boy and sentenced to prison. The *Chicago Tribune*, 16 June 1992, reported that fifteen priests in or near Chicago had been or were being relieved of their holy office when found guilty of sexual molestation of boys, and on 22 June, reported that a priest had been indicted in Wisconsin for sexually assaulting altar boys and for threatening to kill another boy if he disclosed the holy man's favorite sport--and that the indicted priest was asking his parishioners to secure his release from custody by posting a $50,000 bond! And so on.
Since Christianity inherited the Jews' morbid and nasty preoccupation with sex, the religion has always had a strong underlying eroticism. Female mystics and pietists usually identify their Jesus as an ideal lover. (5) Male mystics and pietists frequently think of Jesus in homosexual terms. For this they could claim scriptural authority, for although a homosexual passage was expunged from the gospel attributed to an unidentified Marcus, (6) there remained in the gospel attributed to a certain Iohannes the suggestive episode of the "beloved disciple," who reclined on Jesus's breast at dinner, as a favorite mignon would do.
Pope Alexander VI, Al Capone, King Herod of Judea, Pope Leo X, Adolf Hitler, Pope Julius II, John Milton, Benito Mussolini, Cardinal Richelieu and the Marquis de Sade were all syphilitics.
Pope Leo VII, Pope John VII, Pope John XIII and Pope Paul II all died during the act of sexual intercourse.
Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) was reputed to have committed his first murder at the age of 12.
Sex with animals was banned by the Christian church at the Council of Ankara in 314 CE. Adultery had been banned from the beginning.
During World War II, priests often sprinkled Hitler's troops with Holy water. Soldiers of the Vermacht wore belt buckles inscribed with the following: "Gott mit uns" (God is with us).
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