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February 14, 2012
Church of Sweden rocked by sex scandals
Published: 15 Jun 09 11:23 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/20072/20090615/
The Church of Sweden has already been shaken by several sex scandals this year. Archbishop Anders Wejryd regrets the incidents, and maintains that transparency is the best policy.
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Wejryd regrets that the incidents occurred, but says it is positive the Church dealt with them.
“It is tragic, but I think that we have been successful in our ambition to get people to file reports,” Wejryd told news agency TT.
According to the archbishop, one of the Church's most widely distributed brochures provides the contact information for where to report sexual assault.
“It is available at churches and in parish offices. We don't want to foster a culture of silence. We want to require priests to take responsibility for their actions.”
Wejryd said he fully understood the media attention surrounding priests and sex?
“The combination of sex and an institution associated with morals is irresistible.”
A review of sexual assault reports filed against priests and deacons in the last several years shows that there have been a number of cases every year involving everything from porn-surfing priests to sexual harassment.
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I give credit to Islam when it comes to marriage. and Prophet Mohammad said.
Young men, those of you who can support a wife should marry, for it keeps you from looking at strange women and preserves you from immorality, but those who cannot, should devote themselves to fasting, for it is a means of suppressing sexual desire.
(Bukhari, Muslim).
"When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of the religion, so let him fear Go regarding the remaining half"
"Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war."
Qur'an:9:5
"Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah."
Qur'an:8:39
"As for one who disbelieves, we will fight him forever in the Cause of Allah. Killing him is a small matter to us."
Tabari IX:69
But yeah, I'll take a marriage advice from a guy who married 13 wives one of which was 9 y/o and the other - his cousin.
Well this is not true in any context.
i will answer ur points one by one.
1. First verse of Holy Quran that you qouted is in context with a deal with non-muslims, it is said which u qouted only the part which you wanted to highlighted that if they break promise then fight.
2. second one which you mentioned is in relevance with the non-muslims who captured in old times in arab a mosque of muslims. And a verse before this is said that if they abstain from what they did forgive them and if they don't then fight with them until that is ended.
just think if someone threat you and capture your house what you will do.
And last point. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) marriages will because of some purpose and according to teach some important points.
You can read about all of that at this website. www.alislam.org
So don't spread wrong knowledge about something which you don't know.
http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=377®ion=EN
About second qoute ref. is http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=366®ion=EN&CR=
To all reader, please read 1-2 verse of Holy Quran above and below to understand whole context of matter. Don't just pick lines and state that is something to criticize.
http://www.jannah.org/articles/misc.html
http://www.docbates.com/docbates/misconceptions-about-islam-by-dr-zakir-naik-824
BR
iDialogue
Indeed this sex scandals are not new in Christian era , i think the read might have allready read about "Jimmy Suagart" the one beaten in debate by "Shiekh Ahmed Deedat".
"Swaggart was found to involve with a prostitute at a Metaire, Louisiana" BBC..
it is not new , just it is growing, specially when now Priests know how to use Internet :) :)
BR
iDialogue
If I am not wrong, you must be confusing the church of Sweden with the Catholic church. As far as I know, Catholic priests are the ones who take a vow of celibacy, the church of Sweden ones on the other hand can marry. The crimes mentioned here have less to do with celibacy and more to do with ...... insanity maybe?
My friend.. Church of Sweden is a branch of Lutheran. and are part of Catholic .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Sweden
see here.
iDialogue
hmmm. let's see... swedish church rocked by sex scandals to muslims to catholics, no not catholics, to hmmm...where's the rock connection.
ozzy osbourne is doing ads for WOW. he's been the king of darkness since 1979....yeah..shaaaaroooon!
Its nothing short of criminal ... So dont tell me about the holy catholic and Ireland ... its hyprocracy...
Ps. I am Irish by the way ... just so you dont misunderstand where I am coming from.... These religious were monsters and evil.
Religious people acting amoral!!!
Whatever next?
Why would clergymen be any better behaved than anyone else?
http://www.childabusecommission.com/rpt/pdfs/
The stories told by the thousands of victims is horrifying.
I don't deny that the church of Sweden was once part of the Catholic church. What I am saying is that they broke off from the Catholic church and made their own rules and one of those rules is that unlike the Catholic church, their priests are allowed to marry. The article was about church of Sweden priests and what they have done and should not be used to blame other churches
today she is housed in a beautiful museum on djurgården, a must see on the visiting schedule of any tourist to stockholm. she is currently battling an internal decay problem (very complicated --which i'll gladly get more into should you find it relevant to the swedish church scandals).
i've personally been aboard the might ship. she's a stunner.
In regards to his marriage - I did not even get your point. What it is OK to be a pedophile and to commit incest because the following teachings connected them to some logical explanation? Are you feeling OK?
If he would marry a horse, it would symbolize his love for the nature and if he would marry his mom it would be a symbol for the respect of the parents?