The Church: Pro-(Embryonic)-Life, Screw Everyone Else

According to a recent article on The Huffington Post, a scandal has just been uncovered in which Irish children, both boys and girls, had been sexually, emotionally, and physically abused at religious children's homes run by the Church. Many of the children were abandoned by parents who could not afford to take care of them or because of the unbearable negative social pressure accorded to the children being born out of wedlock. At these "shelters", the children were horribly treated, as if they had no value, were just tools. The boys were subjected to:

"Punching, flogging, assault and bodily attacks, kicking, head shaving, beating on the soles of the feet, burning, scalding, stabbing, being made to kneel and stand in fixed positions for lengthy periods, hosed down with cold water before being beaten, beaten while hanging from hooks on the wall, being set upon by dogs, being restrained in order to be beaten, physical assaults by more than one person, and having objects thrown at them."

The girls had just as bad a time.  They were "treated as slaves, laboring up to 7 hours a day... were routinely sexually abused, often by more than one person at a time."

If the Church were truly "pro-life", it would take care of life after it left the womb.  Instead, all it cares about is protecting the fetus's life.  Afterwards, screw it, just more fodder for the priest-abuse machine.  The children's shelters won't even release the names of those involved, because the criminals of the religious order are more important than those they are charged with caring for.

How can the Church possibly claim the right to tell us how to live our lives and what is moral when its  own members don't live by the morals they preach?  Maybe this is why the youth of today are so disillusioned with organized religion.  (see post below)  It's all just a bunch of bullshit.