Re: Prophetcast: Episode 60 (On Pedophilia and the Catholic Church)

Above you will find an amazing apology from one of the "hosts" of Prophetcast, an atheist show on Atheist Analysis. "A little" heated is a bit of an understatement. In the last 10-15 minutes or so, he was speechless, befuddled, and could barely string a sentence together, until he basically cut the program short because he about had it. What could possibly get him to react this way? A simple correction and attention to detail. I was expecting these guys would be interested in truth and science and the like. But apparently that all goes by the wayside when they are called out on their erroneous understanding of terms that they use. Everyone makes mistakes, but they continued to resist and reject correction and gave up. How can anyone accept such a spectacle? The arrogance astounds me. 

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Streamed live on Dec 14, 2014Prophetcast strives to bring an open forum to discuss religion, atheism, secular humanism and the politics and current events surrounding them. Having regular guests join the show and constant new ones, Prophetcast is always open to new ideas for topics and invites anyone as future guests!

What happened was these guys were responding to news that a Protestant pastor stated that he thinks gays should be stoned to death and are all pedophiles. Instead of refuting such an obviously false statement, they instead used it as an opportunity to attack the Catholic Church by saying that when they think of pedophiles they think of Catholic priests. That's when I commented on the Atheist Analysis chat that they should read the 2004 John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) study on the abuse crisis in the Catholic Church (read it here) from 1950-2002.

1. The greatest percentage of cases were cases of post-pubescent boys being abused. 
2. Pedophilia is perpetration towards pre-pubescent children, not post-pubescent children. (Source: Forensic Psychology, p. 127) As such, they could not refer to the crisis as simply a "pedophilia scandal". When corrected, the hosts clearly could not understand, either by admission or perhaps intellectual capacity, that there is a difference. 
3. Pedophilia is an issue of power and dominance and so does not have a preference between boys or girls. 
4. Victimization for pedophiles has more to do with availability and access to victims, in which case was mostly boys (altar boys, all boy schools). 
5. So what do we call it when victimization involves post-pubescent boys (majority of cases). I made the simple parallel. What would you call an adult male who victimizes a post-pubescent and yet under the age of consent female? You can say it is "predatory heterosexual behavior". Who could argue with that description? 
6. Replace the female with a post-pubescent male and what behavior is that? You can say it is "predatory homosexual behavior", which is exactly what I called it in the chat. 

Now these hosts, instead of calmly assimilating the data, decided to mock it, oppose it, and engage in the most amount of logical fallacies in the shortest amount of time that I've heard in a while. C'mon guys...

I think for this reason alone that these guys have no business doing a show like this. As I suspected, their show description is a sham, and the only real "bigots" are these two idiots. Did I show hate at all for any group? Not at all. If anyone, these two did against believers and Catholics.

big·ot

 noun \ˈbi-gət\

: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot