Sex, sin, hell, confession, redemption, sin, sex, sin, control, sadism, sin, hell, sex, silence, suffering, sin, shame, sex, hell, scapegoating, abuse, control, hell, sin.......
@ilovebagpuss2008 You are absolutely correct. These people were representatives/clergy of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Hundreds of thousands of Southern Irish children systematically raped and abused by the Roman church. Lest we forget!
@ilovebagpuss2008 its a different flavor for the same old bs ("bs with chocolate chips"; or, "i dont want to smoke my christ, i just want t sniff it"... and i use this metaphor as religion is just another kind of addiction, and robably more dangerous than any drug known to man)
I love this film, so powerful! I am trying to find out their full histroy, as they were real people, I am interested in finding out more about harriet/crispina
the irish mentality over right and wrong is still seriously fucked up
the r.c church has too much to answer for and those nuns were wicked and i suspect in the places they still are in use they are still mean evil bitches
Where is God in this film? Why did he always keep silent while seeing innocent people were afflicted by "his children" in his name? He is the living God, right?
Well the Church is still doing this in poorer countries where ignorance abound and they're trying to settle down. Would they really be concerned to bring education in Asia and Africa? in another hand I much prefer the catholic church to the other two monotheist religions. I wonder when man will be able to get rid of religion believe.
@Egoplus99 Your simple mindedness,quite frankly,disturbed's me.You seem to judge everything by what a minority of false believers do,especially instead of looking at why they did it.Well the answer is Greed and corruption.The same exact reason why millions of people died and were tortured by many Atheists,Scientists,Buddhists,Muslims,Pagans,etc.Every bad thing in this world revolves around Greed.So if you're going to blame/hate anything,make it Greed.
@rimidalv47 What did Atheists and Buddhist do you simpleton? Please tell me.. I'm excited to hear your answer. And before you say it, Hitler was a Catholic, and that is a FACT!!!
@Iamthegreatification Hitler was Catholic? Stalin was Atheist,Mao was Atheist,Robespierre was Atheist,Hideki Tojo was Buddhist,Roman Sternberg was Buddhist,etc(there are much more,I've just named a few off the top of my head).Are you people so simple minded and ignorant that you would judge an entire Religion based off of people who claim to follow it?Well almost every belief system has had tyrants and false followers,so then what are we to believe? Even the Belief of nothing has had tyrants.
@rimidalv47 Yes Hitler was Catholic. But that's not the point. You are using a few corrupt powerful people, who claim to be of certain belief, to justify your claims. The issue here is that a MULTITUDE of people from the same HUGE organisation abused their power to abuse and rape thousands of children across the globe, (not to mention the catholic churches role in the slave trade etc). There has never been an epidemic of reported child abuse from any other belief to the this scale. so please..
@Iamthegreatification What I'm trying to say is that every single faith,religious or otherwise, does not have all true/good followers.Don't judge an entire belief system by it's "followers".Like I said,I just named the first people to pop in my head and yes,these people had many followers.Yes "REPORTED" child abuse.Islam for example has much more "UNREPORTED" amounts of child abuse.Islam,Judaism,Buddhism,etc,etc,etc have all had slavery as well.Dalai Lama was a much loved slave driver.
@rimidalv47 I don't know where you get your misguided information about the Dalai lama.I have been to his home and his temple in India, I taught English in the region for a number of months to Tibeten refugees and nobody that knows him will say he is a slave driver.The people who abused are NOT "followers", they are ordained priests and nuns, people who were given power. I live in Ireland and i can tell you the Catholic church has destroyed this country though the years.The CC is currupt as hell
@Iamthegreatification Britain has been destroying Ireland for years.The Catholic church actually saved Ireland.Stalin too was a very charming man.Anyone who met him would swear he wasn't a lunatic.
@rimidalv47 You are talking complete rubbish. You obviously think kiddy fiddling is ok and you obviously don't have a clue about the events in Ireland or you would know that there was no greater friend to the British than the catholic church who have been messing with Irish kids for decades, while us, the tax payer foots the bill for their lawsuits. Get the facts and get with the real world and we can continue to debate. lol
You can't judge the Christian religion by what a few people have done over the centuries, no matter how bad. No more than you could judge all Germans for murdering Jews or saying all Muslims are terrorists. Obviously if people are behaving in this way and persecuting people, they are not really following the example of Christ, but are hungry for power. Can't understand how people can't see past the bad into the ideals of love and goodness.
Catholics expect persecution for their beliefs, and criticism only makes them more dependent on the notion of "faith". They try to mold minds in the formative years to fall back on this faith during times of stress. I've known them to try to get free and declare themselves atheist, and then, when the chips are down, out comes the "God" word. Similar things apply to ALL religions. Without the initial persecution, the cascade of events might not occur. Merry Christmas.
this film is so horrifying- i just dont know how they could live like that and even with yourself.your supposed to be doing gods work. it really makes me wonder is this what the catholic organisation is like hiding the abuse- sweeping it under the carpet and then the pope will give a measly apology. makes me feel sick!!
@greaserleo I'm sure they will have, I'm Catholic but there should be no place in heaven and no time for forgiveness for people like that, it makes me ashamed.
Please do not generalize. I am a catholic, myself.
Just so you know, there are different types of believers in this world, the contemporary ones and the classical. It is very obvious that this movie is very classical, considering their belief of penance and things as such. Contemporary people DO NOT believe in such God will NEVER require us to sacrifice ourselves just for him to forgive us because he WILL forgive us no matter what.
@chrizza13 fair point, but the fact this was going on only a few decades ago, coupled with the recent revelations about priests and the ongoing outrage that is the catholic churches preachings in Africa, one would have to come to the conclusion that this whole organisation (as that's what it fundamentally is) is nothing but an evil piece of machinery that is all, repeat all about control
@jambamz that's why I was telling people to NOT GENERALIZE. I know I can't stop you, all, from thinking that way but at least I tried to let you know that NOT ALL CATHOLIC CHURCHES ARE LIKE THIS.
poor girls! hope nothing like that is happening now a days.
Then i watched the end of this film and seen practacly all the nuns scared of the girl chasing them into a room, why didnt they think that at first? there old people there not gonna have strength the way these young girls have, they should have fought their freedom!
all religion is full of crap....religion takes everybody down to one path and one path only..war!! ..so stick religion up your arse with all those hypocritical leaders and followers.......DARWIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now that's a name people need to learn about
@05giacomo The Catholic Church is great. It doesn't actually encourage this. Please please please will people begin to realise that there are about 1000000 Catholics to every psycho one xx
@dramaqueen7777777 well the hindus say we really appreciate jesus but wer not christians because we have never seen a christian behaving like jesus..i know catholic church and i can confirm that...but of course there are real christians too..but im afraid its a minority..
This is one of the many reasons why I hate the Catholic Church. I feel sorry for any Atheists in live in Ireland. Is it true that Richard Dawkins books are banned there???
This would never happen here in the UK.
Ireland is practically a Catholic theocracy it needs to reform.
@JONNOG88 no there not banned hear dude.. ireland was a catholic theocracy not to long ago but not anymore and thank fuck for that.. the catholic church is nothing but scum, and more people are realising that day by day
@dramaqueen7777777 i know most catholic people are decent people i was raised catholic, but the church and the ones who are in power are scum and they always have been
I hope people don't think ALL Christians are horrible and corrupted just because of the awful actions of those in power. Some of us just want to serve God and are as horrified by the corruption in the church as anyone else. Many of us don't even agree with 'religion'. I belong to the Christian FAITH. I don't understand people who SAY they love God, and then cast out anyone they don't approve of and remorselessly do absolutely awful things. But Jesus is my saviour and they will not ruin that.
@eyestotheskies exactly, we got to remember that those who are in power are still people and are human beings and are just as capable of sinning as anyone else no matter what religion. I hate it when people try to criticize you when they hear something bad about someone else's bad actions with same religion.
@eyestotheskies Nah! I think you're all terrible jerks because of the historical atrocities committed by your church, the duplicitous actions of your leaders when they involve themselves in politics, the judgmental acts, the inability to debate a religious topic by shutting down instead of talking it through, and the way you bug me every Saturday by knocking on my door and trying to get me to join your cult. You may DRESS like Christians, but the similarity ends THERE!
@eyestotheskies most non-christian know they are worse: if you beleive and dont care, you are delutional or "sinfully" indifferent; if you beleive and care, then you are and hypocrite; if you dont beleive, but still support the faith, you are just a monster. And the same goes, in similar ways, to all religions.
You condemn gays, women who don't conform to your expectations and et cetera, and then you seek to disassociate yourself from those who mistreat gays, women and et cetera.
I think they call that having your cake and eating it too.
Why do people think only Catholics do this? There's been documented cases in almost every major sect of Christianity about abusive men of the cloth. This sort of thing is dreamed up by Protestants for sure. However, Religion is indeed the root of all evil. Protestants have a VERY bloody history too.
It is beyond Catholicism and religions; the problem here is the unfair treatment of women. Women have endured this for thousands of years because of ideologies that condemned them to an inferior role in society. It still occurs in the world today, even in other religions. It has got to stop!
I've just finished reading the book, Kathy's Story by Kathy O'Beire and sugest anyone doubting this movie read this book and if still in doubt,check out the websites or email some of the address in the back of the book, I'm sure this will open your eyes to the goings on that is STILL happening in some of these places.
@JONNOG88 I agree. The voiceover has the completely wrong tone for this movie. it didn't feel "triumphant"... even at the end. Harrowing and haunting definitely. This film deeply moved me and has stayed with me ever since I saw it.
Its ironic how everything these stupid people (nuns and priests) did was completely against the bibles teachings. This wasn't forgiveness. This was torture. As a person who has an Irish Cathoilc father and family it is shocking yet not surprising. The ignorance and gerneral stupidity that is shown in, generally older genration Irish Catholics is astonishing. You couldn;t make this stuff up
Before the Irish Catholic Church gave such a mired meaning to the name of Irishman , people might like to know that over a thousand years ago, the native Pagan Irish (Aborigines) burned every church the invading Christians built. Unfortunately, the blood-thirsty Pope enlisted the aid of mercenary Knights and Christian murderers to holacaust them!
I first heard about these horrors on Irish radio in the early 1990s as the first middle aged women began to blurt out their terrible stories to sympathetic but incomprehending interviewers.
It was a dreadful shock for me, one who had been a teenager in Dublin forty years earlier not realising that the Rosary beads in my pocket may have been made by a beaten, terrified and traumatised child slave in a godless convent somewhere in the land I loved so much
I wonder,the catholic church is God's church or other's?Their crimes,over 1 milion people burned over the centuries (inquisition), Magdalene laundries, pedophilia and other stuff make me think of them as evil people.
@hjames601 hahahhahaahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahhahahahahaha my god man have u no respect, what about the men women and children who would've gone hungry if the church wasent there to feed them clothe them, u say that the catholic church ir filled with devients and pedo's and im not deniyin tht pedo's who join the church to get near kids should be kastrated lyke but dnt u dare cus the name of the catholic church cause it will be here long after were gone
@MyBuddy94 While the catholic church 'help' so many in need, more often than not they also ask them to convert for this help to a new religion- wiping their culture and heritage away as if the catholic church is superior to all else. The only church who always helps without asking those helped to convert is Salvation Army.
The fact the catholic church will be here long after we're gone is not going to be a cause for celebration for everyone - including the women this film was based on.
Yeah, the Irish Catholic in Ireland and the US have a warped perception of sex. Many gay men and lesbians join the order as a way of not having to marry and making Mama proud. Meanwhile, as they stuff their own sexual desires, their natural sex drive erupts into a bizarre sexual perspective and their behaviors become neurotic and unhealthy, and victimizes children. I'm so glad that the Magdalene Sisters and the Pedophile Clergy has been exposed but the Church will never be accountable.
What in God's name?! Why can't you people just accept that this abuse has nothing to do with homosexuality??! Stop looking for scapegoats and accept that paedophiles do not care what gender their victims are. Idiot.
Jeramiah 85 -the abuse nuns and priests were pure Irish Stock just as they were in the Bronx where I grew up. The pure Irish Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Moms and Dads allow the nuns and priest to continue their abuse against their own children.
I was raised Irish Catholic in NYC. My Grandmother from Kerry and Grandfather from Cork. I never heard of these institutions until I saw the movie. The behavior of the nuns was not surprising or for that matter the priest. I remember a friend of mine (we were freshmen in high school at the time - 1959) who wore very little lipstick to school one day. The nun pulled her by the hair and scrubbed it off with a brush that was made of the kind of wire you use for brillo pads.
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Ireland is still the best country. Im proud to be Irish and also very happy that Ireland no longer holds those Laundries. The only downfall in Irelnad now, is that there are so many bloody foreigners over here. No offense to other nationalites. im sure your all very nice people. but Ireland was beautiful because of its pure all Irish race. It nice to have visitors coming on holiday here, but not to bloody live. The streets are getting blacker by the day.
Wow, you are really racist! I'm sorry to tell you that lots of terrible things (like Magdalene laundries, duh) happened in Ireland before all of the 'bloody foreigners' came over, when there was only the 'pure all Irish race' as you so poetically put it. I am half Irish and half 'foreigner,' I am proud to be both, I live in Ireland, I was educated there, I pay my taxes, and contribute to Irish society. Thank God I haven't met too many other Irish people with your lame attitude. Get real!
@brazenhussy3 I already know that the Magdalene Laundries occured before foreign peole came 2 live in Ireland. That is why i said, although i am glad that the laundries no longer exist in Ireland, the only downfall in my opinion that ireland has now is that it is a very much mixed country. Im not racist in the slightest. I love London becaue it is so multi cultural and mixed. All i am sayign is that ireland lost its beauty about being IRISH because it is just like everywhere else now
Well sir, I think that the film fails to convey the fact that these sort of abuses tend to happen in any sort of institution, religious or secular. Are they trying to say that these poor unfortunates were going to have a better time in a State run facility?
I find that statement highly dubious and am curious if you have statistics or studies to back that up.
As for "having a better time in a state run facility"
Kathy O'Beirne, a Magdalen Laundry survivor gave her testimony of her abuse and says that her time spent in jail for shoplifting was in comparison, one of the best periods of her childhood. So there goes that theory.
It is an amazing thing that these so called "servants of Christ" these "Christians " could not follow the simple human quality of understanding, tolerance and forgiveness. Their religion the Catholic religion was so obsessed with human sexuality, that they were ignorant and utterly fearful of its beauty and considered all sexuality to be evil. This led them to the darkness of hatred towards their fellow humans who experiences sexual relations, and hatred of those who were raped.
the whole catholic church is sick and perverted organisation. I live in catholic country and I can confirm that. catholic church wants just money and power and the hide sexual deviants, pedophils and others. they tyranized people and misuse them. but it is not problem of catholics only, but all forms of organized religion.
@loptosko1 im no catholic but ar you saying than the rest of churches are different? come on its sily and in catholic church their is all kinds of people and organizations some good some bad
@loptosko1 Umm that's a bit unfair. Clearly you don't live in such a good place, I'm a Catholic living in a mainly Catholic community and when there was some scandal about the thing in Ireland all those years ago, our priest made a big thing out of it and got us all to pray for them. You can't stereotype, that's unfair.
@loptosko1 hahahhahaahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahhahahahahaha my god man have u no respect, what about the men women and children who would've gone hungry if the church wasent there to feed them clothe them, u say that the catholic church ir filled with devients and pedo's and im not deniyin tht pedo's who join the church to get near kids should be kastrated lyke but dnt u dare cus the name of the catholic church cause it will be here long after were gone
What sickens me is the fact that they use the name of God to justify this crap. This is not GOD's work, this is MAN's work. This is selfishness and torture.
This movie is one of the greates what I have ever seen. It's painful to watch but it really open your eyes. I can't believe how people have use religions by an excuse to do such a brutal things. And I can't believe, how those nuns though that they are pure and not sinned when they hurt those girls?! Humans are just... so much pure shit.
Christianity isn't a religion and most Catholics aren't even Christians either. Claiming that it's 'in the name of God' is just an excuse so they can get away with shit like that. The Catholic church is more of a cult, although there are some that aren't like that at all. God wouldn't say all of that stuff of which they are claiming must be done. That is just human stupidity and foolishness.
Ummm, no. I let my life experiences "obscure" my judgement. The devil teaches that one film does that? Whaaaa?? One of its workhouses? What about all the others? The paedophile priests, the Christian Brothers, stifling dogma, so on and etc.! Oh, and just to be a real devil's advocate (ha!) I never saw this movie, just that clip! Thanks for the insight ;-)
@MrRipster I wouldn't say its just one film but a whole catalogue of wrongdoings, looks more like you are the one who has their judgement obscured, by dare I say it,
Didnt Jesus say his followers had to hate their families or they could not follow him?,if more people read the bible they would see what a sinister tome it is,This will be why the priests didnt encourage people to read the bible for themselves.
Ireland has come a long way since the laundries, but it goes to show that an entire society can be held accountable for the actions of an independent power. The Irish church WAS God for a very long time, and no one questioned its power. Many of these girls were "turned in" by their own fathers and families...horrifically tragic. Let's hope they learn from their mistakes, although history has consistently proven otherwise.
these launderies were all closed by 1996 thank god dut the girls never reseaved any thing affter there release. that is what we should be waging war against. the catholic church should be cleansed of it's sins before it can cleanse the sins of others.
Shock. Film shows not only the crimes of church but also those of Irish people too. Were those girls dragged by force from their houses, against the will and with protests of family? No! Often the fathers themselves sent their own daughters to those places of horror. The Ryan Report should equally list the Irish people as quilty of these abuse and crimes. Without the support and dedication of Irish families to terrorize the victimes, the Magdalene Sisters wouldn't existed so long (till 1996).
I thank you, it would seem i did not have all the info i needed to make a good comment. and why did you you start with shock i only stated what i saw and thought.
Choose your enemies well. This was an evil thing that was done by the sate, no less evil than deportation of children to Austrailia by the British government.
Very true Cuculain1970, however these terrible acts were carried out in the name of a supposed benevolent Religion. We don't expect better from any government.
And as for all the other allegations of Child Abuse from around the world....
This movie is so intense it made me cry. Well, not actually cry, but it made me sad. Well, not exactly, but I did feel some twinges of unhappiness. OK, I was pretty happy when I saw it. OK, it made me very happy. But it's still an intense movie.
But there are alot of people in the world that believe its right to abuse women, murder others and molest children even though its not. If you werent educated in whats right and wrong, you wouldnt know either. So sometimes its right to tell others what to believe, and its right to listen to the person telling you what to believe.
I love this film,so glad places like that aren't real anymore :(
rachelmorrismorris 3 days ago
its a great film but it disturbing
XWestlifeLoverX 1 month ago
Such a great film!! So sad though!!!
MsAshleymarie21 4 months ago
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chunkindunkin 6 months ago
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chunkindunkin 6 months ago
bunches of demons inside the church of rome....the devils order: murder and rape in the name of god
05giacomo 7 months ago
Sex, sin, hell, confession, redemption, sin, sex, sin, control, sadism, sin, hell, sex, silence, suffering, sin, shame, sex, hell, scapegoating, abuse, control, hell, sin.......
Catholicism is sick.
kts68 7 months ago
@kts68 You are 100% right!!!
MsAshleymarie21 4 months ago
The voice-over does not do this movie justice at all.
metinkssumtin 7 months ago
This movie is Banned by the vatican... But i liked it :P
netjes44 8 months ago 6
irish priests and nuns has been the most evil and cruel representatives of the Catholic church I've ever had!
ilMitico69 9 months ago
@ilMitico69 Apparently theres still one of these in my county...
PiratesAndCowboys 8 months ago
@PiratesAndCowboys : catch him/her and burn it!
ilMitico69 8 months ago
@ilMitico69 Him/Her? No hahaha a place like this run by nuns, in Dublin..
PiratesAndCowboys 8 months ago
die in hell catholics
ilovebagpuss2008 9 months ago
they not christrians they catholiic
ilovebagpuss2008 9 months ago
@ilovebagpuss2008 You are absolutely correct. These people were representatives/clergy of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Hundreds of thousands of Southern Irish children systematically raped and abused by the Roman church. Lest we forget!
runevidgeek3 9 months ago
@ilovebagpuss2008 Catholics ARE Christians.
PiratesAndCowboys 8 months ago
@ilovebagpuss2008 its a different flavor for the same old bs ("bs with chocolate chips"; or, "i dont want to smoke my christ, i just want t sniff it"... and i use this metaphor as religion is just another kind of addiction, and robably more dangerous than any drug known to man)
ArturoDabdoub 8 months ago
I love this film, so powerful! I am trying to find out their full histroy, as they were real people, I am interested in finding out more about harriet/crispina
Fr3ya1996Babii33 9 months ago
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freacls 9 months ago
The bit in this film that propper pissed me off...was those lesbian nuns...sluts.
ismellofvanilla 9 months ago
the irish mentality over right and wrong is still seriously fucked up
the r.c church has too much to answer for and those nuns were wicked and i suspect in the places they still are in use they are still mean evil bitches
sweetypie000 9 months ago
Where is God in this film? Why did he always keep silent while seeing innocent people were afflicted by "his children" in his name? He is the living God, right?
extremeloneliness 11 months ago
lsd
FoSbaKiaS 11 months ago
it's disgusting how they were treated
1992VoodooChild 11 months ago
pope= antichrist
05giacomo 11 months ago
Every time I see this, I want to throw a brick through the TV screen and kill every nun and priest I can find.
HealedByHisStripes7 11 months ago
Omg... i have not seen this movie in years!
weses2 1 year ago
This film is a classic horror film - made all the more terrifying by the fact that it really happened!
So much evil committed by those who profess to be the followers of a "loving god!" The Catholic church has a lot to answer for over the centuries!
CountryBoy749 1 year ago
Well the Church is still doing this in poorer countries where ignorance abound and they're trying to settle down. Would they really be concerned to bring education in Asia and Africa? in another hand I much prefer the catholic church to the other two monotheist religions. I wonder when man will be able to get rid of religion believe.
Egoplus99 1 year ago
This movie makes me think how bad religions and ignorance are.
Egoplus99 1 year ago
@Egoplus99 And yet your very own comment is ignorant and not to mention hypocritical.
rimidalv47 11 months ago
@rimidalv47 brainwashed. before you die do one thing, try tosee things crystal clear. so u justify what these f*** nuns did. well done.
Egoplus99 11 months ago
@Egoplus99 Your simple mindedness,quite frankly,disturbed's me.You seem to judge everything by what a minority of false believers do,especially instead of looking at why they did it.Well the answer is Greed and corruption.The same exact reason why millions of people died and were tortured by many Atheists,Scientists,Buddhists,Muslims,Pagans,etc.Every bad thing in this world revolves around Greed.So if you're going to blame/hate anything,make it Greed.
rimidalv47 11 months ago
@rimidalv47 What did Atheists and Buddhist do you simpleton? Please tell me.. I'm excited to hear your answer. And before you say it, Hitler was a Catholic, and that is a FACT!!!
Iamthegreatification 11 months ago
@Iamthegreatification Hitler was Catholic? Stalin was Atheist,Mao was Atheist,Robespierre was Atheist,Hideki Tojo was Buddhist,Roman Sternberg was Buddhist,etc(there are much more,I've just named a few off the top of my head).Are you people so simple minded and ignorant that you would judge an entire Religion based off of people who claim to follow it?Well almost every belief system has had tyrants and false followers,so then what are we to believe? Even the Belief of nothing has had tyrants.
rimidalv47 11 months ago 2
@rimidalv47 Yes Hitler was Catholic. But that's not the point. You are using a few corrupt powerful people, who claim to be of certain belief, to justify your claims. The issue here is that a MULTITUDE of people from the same HUGE organisation abused their power to abuse and rape thousands of children across the globe, (not to mention the catholic churches role in the slave trade etc). There has never been an epidemic of reported child abuse from any other belief to the this scale. so please..
Iamthegreatification 11 months ago
@Iamthegreatification What I'm trying to say is that every single faith,religious or otherwise, does not have all true/good followers.Don't judge an entire belief system by it's "followers".Like I said,I just named the first people to pop in my head and yes,these people had many followers.Yes "REPORTED" child abuse.Islam for example has much more "UNREPORTED" amounts of child abuse.Islam,Judaism,Buddhism,etc,etc,etc have all had slavery as well.Dalai Lama was a much loved slave driver.
rimidalv47 11 months ago
@rimidalv47 I don't know where you get your misguided information about the Dalai lama.I have been to his home and his temple in India, I taught English in the region for a number of months to Tibeten refugees and nobody that knows him will say he is a slave driver.The people who abused are NOT "followers", they are ordained priests and nuns, people who were given power. I live in Ireland and i can tell you the Catholic church has destroyed this country though the years.The CC is currupt as hell
Iamthegreatification 11 months ago
@Iamthegreatification Britain has been destroying Ireland for years.The Catholic church actually saved Ireland.Stalin too was a very charming man.Anyone who met him would swear he wasn't a lunatic.
rimidalv47 11 months ago
@rimidalv47 You are talking complete rubbish. You obviously think kiddy fiddling is ok and you obviously don't have a clue about the events in Ireland or you would know that there was no greater friend to the British than the catholic church who have been messing with Irish kids for decades, while us, the tax payer foots the bill for their lawsuits. Get the facts and get with the real world and we can continue to debate. lol
Iamthegreatification 11 months ago
I've seen the film today...
It really touched something inside! Beautiful film!
eviboonstra 1 year ago
screw this all those girls are going to hell including those "nuns"
kingnuke 1 year ago
@sophieritchie9 Oh dear somebody has being brainwashed by the church
rfitzhen 1 year ago
This film shows the real side of the Catholic Church
rfitzhen 1 year ago
@rfitzhen not all Catholic churches are like that. thanks.
chrizza13 1 year ago
yo he visto esa pelicula y la verdad esta muy feo lo que hacen las monjas porque las maltratan en nombre de Dios
Clarislra1989 1 year ago
You can't judge the Christian religion by what a few people have done over the centuries, no matter how bad. No more than you could judge all Germans for murdering Jews or saying all Muslims are terrorists. Obviously if people are behaving in this way and persecuting people, they are not really following the example of Christ, but are hungry for power. Can't understand how people can't see past the bad into the ideals of love and goodness.
GraceyBubs 1 year ago 3
loptosko1 is absolutely spot on accurate
burrdean 1 year ago
Catholics expect persecution for their beliefs, and criticism only makes them more dependent on the notion of "faith". They try to mold minds in the formative years to fall back on this faith during times of stress. I've known them to try to get free and declare themselves atheist, and then, when the chips are down, out comes the "God" word. Similar things apply to ALL religions. Without the initial persecution, the cascade of events might not occur. Merry Christmas.
philjquitt 1 year ago
I would never feel sorry if something bad happens to a nun or priest
jason4275 1 year ago
Welcome to the bloody Roman Catholic Church!!! It was, is and will be a bunch of feckers!
vanillka101 1 year ago
this movie was sooo disturbing, those poor women.
Relda999 1 year ago
This film touched my heart any film like it u can suggest to watch to touch my heart again
snoopys14 1 year ago
this film is so horrifying- i just dont know how they could live like that and even with yourself.your supposed to be doing gods work. it really makes me wonder is this what the catholic organisation is like hiding the abuse- sweeping it under the carpet and then the pope will give a measly apology. makes me feel sick!!
dilman2011 1 year ago
ANYONE. IM LOOKING FOR A FILM LIKE THE MAGDALENE SISTERS? BUT IT MORE ABOUT UNWED MOTHERS! HELP!!!!!!
XNb17X 1 year ago
I hope those Bastard Nuns died a horrible death.
greaserleo 1 year ago 36
@greaserleo I'm sure they will have, I'm Catholic but there should be no place in heaven and no time for forgiveness for people like that, it makes me ashamed.
xxx
thatsgorg 10 months ago
@greaserleo oh so do i i hate nuns i have a phobia of them
freacls 9 months ago
femdom rocks!
snotnosedlilkid 1 year ago
what a turn on this film is
snotnosedlilkid 1 year ago
im a catholic but everybody now thinks catholic priests are pedos but thats how pedos work its happening in schools and every were
jasongunner96 1 year ago
omg i loove this movie!!! =] its so touching! one of my favs!
anna63rubio 1 year ago
Nun's are bitches. Im sorry, but Im Irish and went to a catholic secondary school and all the nun's were horible.
FanvidProductions 1 year ago
my mums a nun & i know gives good head
mackfeck 1 year ago
@mackfeck JOKER!!:L
SaoirseHayley 1 year ago
my picture was disfigured by rutheless people who dont know me...(john 8 41)....valid for a load of churches especially for catholic church...
05giacomo 1 year ago
Please do not generalize. I am a catholic, myself.
Just so you know, there are different types of believers in this world, the contemporary ones and the classical. It is very obvious that this movie is very classical, considering their belief of penance and things as such. Contemporary people DO NOT believe in such God will NEVER require us to sacrifice ourselves just for him to forgive us because he WILL forgive us no matter what.
chrizza13 1 year ago 3
@chrizza13 fair point, but the fact this was going on only a few decades ago, coupled with the recent revelations about priests and the ongoing outrage that is the catholic churches preachings in Africa, one would have to come to the conclusion that this whole organisation (as that's what it fundamentally is) is nothing but an evil piece of machinery that is all, repeat all about control
jambamz 1 year ago
@jambamz that's why I was telling people to NOT GENERALIZE. I know I can't stop you, all, from thinking that way but at least I tried to let you know that NOT ALL CATHOLIC CHURCHES ARE LIKE THIS.
chrizza13 1 year ago
poor girls! hope nothing like that is happening now a days.
Then i watched the end of this film and seen practacly all the nuns scared of the girl chasing them into a room, why didnt they think that at first? there old people there not gonna have strength the way these young girls have, they should have fought their freedom!
Jcxo7 1 year ago
all religion is full of crap....religion takes everybody down to one path and one path only..war!! ..so stick religion up your arse with all those hypocritical leaders and followers.......DARWIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now that's a name people need to learn about
oddjobjujitsu 1 year ago
che schifo -.-..suore di merda!!!
suxerika 1 year ago
The priest in the beginning of this film looks like a pedophile. It's obvious he is a homo scumbag.
TakeAShowerStinky 1 year ago
this should be the pride of the okzident?!?...smash the catholic church!!...its time to get rid of this terror organisation totally...
05giacomo 1 year ago
@05giacomo The Catholic Church is great. It doesn't actually encourage this. Please please please will people begin to realise that there are about 1000000 Catholics to every psycho one xx
dramaqueen7777777 1 year ago
@dramaqueen7777777 well the hindus say we really appreciate jesus but wer not christians because we have never seen a christian behaving like jesus..i know catholic church and i can confirm that...but of course there are real christians too..but im afraid its a minority..
05giacomo 1 year ago
The scariest part is that this was hapening only 20 or 30 years ago
Crazyfilmers123 1 year ago 3
Fantastic film. Moving.
This is one of the many reasons why I hate the Catholic Church. I feel sorry for any Atheists in live in Ireland. Is it true that Richard Dawkins books are banned there???
This would never happen here in the UK.
Ireland is practically a Catholic theocracy it needs to reform.
JONNOG88 1 year ago
@JONNOG88 no there not banned hear dude.. ireland was a catholic theocracy not to long ago but not anymore and thank fuck for that.. the catholic church is nothing but scum, and more people are realising that day by day
libertycaps666 1 year ago
@libertycaps666 Well that's your opinion. You do get decent Catholics - I'm one of them.
dramaqueen7777777 1 year ago
@dramaqueen7777777 i know most catholic people are decent people i was raised catholic, but the church and the ones who are in power are scum and they always have been
libertycaps666 1 year ago
good movie
it really does make u think about catholics
22europe 1 year ago
Why does the trailer say "three extraordinary women"? There were four.
S13AR10AFan 1 year ago
@S13AR10AFan i was thinking that aswell.It is because at the beginning it shows the 3 women lives before they entered the asylum.
laurfm93 1 year ago
I hope people don't think ALL Christians are horrible and corrupted just because of the awful actions of those in power. Some of us just want to serve God and are as horrified by the corruption in the church as anyone else. Many of us don't even agree with 'religion'. I belong to the Christian FAITH. I don't understand people who SAY they love God, and then cast out anyone they don't approve of and remorselessly do absolutely awful things. But Jesus is my saviour and they will not ruin that.
eyestotheskies 1 year ago 5
@eyestotheskies exactly, we got to remember that those who are in power are still people and are human beings and are just as capable of sinning as anyone else no matter what religion. I hate it when people try to criticize you when they hear something bad about someone else's bad actions with same religion.
fate241 1 year ago
@eyestotheskies Nah! I think you're all terrible jerks because of the historical atrocities committed by your church, the duplicitous actions of your leaders when they involve themselves in politics, the judgmental acts, the inability to debate a religious topic by shutting down instead of talking it through, and the way you bug me every Saturday by knocking on my door and trying to get me to join your cult. You may DRESS like Christians, but the similarity ends THERE!
Haze736 9 months ago
@eyestotheskies most non-christian know they are worse: if you beleive and dont care, you are delutional or "sinfully" indifferent; if you beleive and care, then you are and hypocrite; if you dont beleive, but still support the faith, you are just a monster. And the same goes, in similar ways, to all religions.
ArturoDabdoub 8 months ago
@eyestotheskies
You condemn gays, women who don't conform to your expectations and et cetera, and then you seek to disassociate yourself from those who mistreat gays, women and et cetera.
I think they call that having your cake and eating it too.
Mattyb88ful 8 months ago in playlist The Magdalene Sisters (2002) 10
Don't turn a movie into a fight about religion- just watch the movie.
TheShmexyProduction 1 year ago 3
Why do people think only Catholics do this? There's been documented cases in almost every major sect of Christianity about abusive men of the cloth. This sort of thing is dreamed up by Protestants for sure. However, Religion is indeed the root of all evil. Protestants have a VERY bloody history too.
SanguineBullet667 1 year ago 2
It is beyond Catholicism and religions; the problem here is the unfair treatment of women. Women have endured this for thousands of years because of ideologies that condemned them to an inferior role in society. It still occurs in the world today, even in other religions. It has got to stop!
imtheshit91 1 year ago 4
Is this an anti-catholic film? It seems like one..well, i hardly can wait to watch it then! I truly hate church!
calciumkid85 1 year ago
I've just finished reading the book, Kathy's Story by Kathy O'Beire and sugest anyone doubting this movie read this book and if still in doubt,check out the websites or email some of the address in the back of the book, I'm sure this will open your eyes to the goings on that is STILL happening in some of these places.
jnb4566 1 year ago
A harrowing and brilliant film
Although the husky voice over on this does'nt seem to fit the theme of the film in my opinion.
It's one of the many reason's why I despise the Catholic Church. And Religion.
JONNOG88 1 year ago
@JONNOG88 I agree. The voiceover has the completely wrong tone for this movie. it didn't feel "triumphant"... even at the end. Harrowing and haunting definitely. This film deeply moved me and has stayed with me ever since I saw it.
HereInTheDarkness 1 year ago 2
Its ironic how everything these stupid people (nuns and priests) did was completely against the bibles teachings. This wasn't forgiveness. This was torture. As a person who has an Irish Cathoilc father and family it is shocking yet not surprising. The ignorance and gerneral stupidity that is shown in, generally older genration Irish Catholics is astonishing. You couldn;t make this stuff up
dgh1990 1 year ago
Before the Irish Catholic Church gave such a mired meaning to the name of Irishman , people might like to know that over a thousand years ago, the native Pagan Irish (Aborigines) burned every church the invading Christians built. Unfortunately, the blood-thirsty Pope enlisted the aid of mercenary Knights and Christian murderers to holacaust them!
sebreathnach 1 year ago
"Mankind cannot stand too much reality"
I first heard about these horrors on Irish radio in the early 1990s as the first middle aged women began to blurt out their terrible stories to sympathetic but incomprehending interviewers.
It was a dreadful shock for me, one who had been a teenager in Dublin forty years earlier not realising that the Rosary beads in my pocket may have been made by a beaten, terrified and traumatised child slave in a godless convent somewhere in the land I loved so much
muisire 1 year ago
@muisire Religions are bull shit!
DerrenBrown100 1 year ago
I wonder,the catholic church is God's church or other's?Their crimes,over 1 milion people burned over the centuries (inquisition), Magdalene laundries, pedophilia and other stuff make me think of them as evil people.
hjames601 1 year ago 25
The not to mention the whole illuminati think i am ashamed to have ever been catholic i am a Christian now.
xilovegossipx 1 year ago
@hjames601 Hey cheers, I'm a Catholic and thanks for the insult (y) I'll have you know that there are decent ones out there :/
dramaqueen7777777 1 year ago
@hjames601 hahahhahaahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahhahahahahaha my god man have u no respect, what about the men women and children who would've gone hungry if the church wasent there to feed them clothe them, u say that the catholic church ir filled with devients and pedo's and im not deniyin tht pedo's who join the church to get near kids should be kastrated lyke but dnt u dare cus the name of the catholic church cause it will be here long after were gone
MyBuddy94 1 year ago
@MyBuddy94 While the catholic church 'help' so many in need, more often than not they also ask them to convert for this help to a new religion- wiping their culture and heritage away as if the catholic church is superior to all else. The only church who always helps without asking those helped to convert is Salvation Army.
The fact the catholic church will be here long after we're gone is not going to be a cause for celebration for everyone - including the women this film was based on.
MissCaattt 1 year ago
Yeah, the Irish Catholic in Ireland and the US have a warped perception of sex. Many gay men and lesbians join the order as a way of not having to marry and making Mama proud. Meanwhile, as they stuff their own sexual desires, their natural sex drive erupts into a bizarre sexual perspective and their behaviors become neurotic and unhealthy, and victimizes children. I'm so glad that the Magdalene Sisters and the Pedophile Clergy has been exposed but the Church will never be accountable.
mysticalHeir 1 year ago 3
What in God's name?! Why can't you people just accept that this abuse has nothing to do with homosexuality??! Stop looking for scapegoats and accept that paedophiles do not care what gender their victims are. Idiot.
lcferrisuk 1 year ago 2
@lcferrisuk I would even say it has nothing to do with sexuality but torture and power over a helpless creature!
Vorwahl0221 1 year ago
Jeramiah 85 -the abuse nuns and priests were pure Irish Stock just as they were in the Bronx where I grew up. The pure Irish Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Moms and Dads allow the nuns and priest to continue their abuse against their own children.
malfada22 1 year ago
I was raised Irish Catholic in NYC. My Grandmother from Kerry and Grandfather from Cork. I never heard of these institutions until I saw the movie. The behavior of the nuns was not surprising or for that matter the priest. I remember a friend of mine (we were freshmen in high school at the time - 1959) who wore very little lipstick to school one day. The nun pulled her by the hair and scrubbed it off with a brush that was made of the kind of wire you use for brillo pads.
malfada22 1 year ago
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Ireland is still the best country. Im proud to be Irish and also very happy that Ireland no longer holds those Laundries. The only downfall in Irelnad now, is that there are so many bloody foreigners over here. No offense to other nationalites. im sure your all very nice people. but Ireland was beautiful because of its pure all Irish race. It nice to have visitors coming on holiday here, but not to bloody live. The streets are getting blacker by the day.
jeramiah85 1 year ago
Wow, you are really racist! I'm sorry to tell you that lots of terrible things (like Magdalene laundries, duh) happened in Ireland before all of the 'bloody foreigners' came over, when there was only the 'pure all Irish race' as you so poetically put it. I am half Irish and half 'foreigner,' I am proud to be both, I live in Ireland, I was educated there, I pay my taxes, and contribute to Irish society. Thank God I haven't met too many other Irish people with your lame attitude. Get real!
brazenhussy3 1 year ago 4
@brazenhussy3 I already know that the Magdalene Laundries occured before foreign peole came 2 live in Ireland. That is why i said, although i am glad that the laundries no longer exist in Ireland, the only downfall in my opinion that ireland has now is that it is a very much mixed country. Im not racist in the slightest. I love London becaue it is so multi cultural and mixed. All i am sayign is that ireland lost its beauty about being IRISH because it is just like everywhere else now
jeramiah85 1 year ago
@jeramiah85 That is basically being racist.
ishidaxnemui 1 year ago
Well sir, I think that the film fails to convey the fact that these sort of abuses tend to happen in any sort of institution, religious or secular. Are they trying to say that these poor unfortunates were going to have a better time in a State run facility?
TheDoLeMike1977 1 year ago
I find that statement highly dubious and am curious if you have statistics or studies to back that up.
As for "having a better time in a state run facility"
Kathy O'Beirne, a Magdalen Laundry survivor gave her testimony of her abuse and says that her time spent in jail for shoplifting was in comparison, one of the best periods of her childhood. So there goes that theory.
artemisfair 1 year ago
@jeramiah85 i know what you mean by living in scotland. its the same thing here
Jcxo7 1 year ago
poor poor girls? This film opens your eyes? x
1980evie 2 years ago
@1980evie Why the "?" ?
ishidaxnemui 1 year ago
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It is an amazing thing that these so called "servants of Christ" these "Christians " could not follow the simple human quality of understanding, tolerance and forgiveness. Their religion the Catholic religion was so obsessed with human sexuality, that they were ignorant and utterly fearful of its beauty and considered all sexuality to be evil. This led them to the darkness of hatred towards their fellow humans who experiences sexual relations, and hatred of those who were raped.
Irishfreethinker 2 years ago 2
Great movie!
eden2222 2 years ago
the whole catholic church is sick and perverted organisation. I live in catholic country and I can confirm that. catholic church wants just money and power and the hide sexual deviants, pedophils and others. they tyranized people and misuse them. but it is not problem of catholics only, but all forms of organized religion.
loptosko1 2 years ago 52
@loptosko1 im no catholic but ar you saying than the rest of churches are different? come on its sily and in catholic church their is all kinds of people and organizations some good some bad
parrillit 1 year ago
@loptosko1 very true what you said
Lheitz05 1 year ago
@loptosko1 Umm that's a bit unfair. Clearly you don't live in such a good place, I'm a Catholic living in a mainly Catholic community and when there was some scandal about the thing in Ireland all those years ago, our priest made a big thing out of it and got us all to pray for them. You can't stereotype, that's unfair.
dramaqueen7777777 1 year ago
@loptosko1 hahahhahaahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahhahahahahaha my god man have u no respect, what about the men women and children who would've gone hungry if the church wasent there to feed them clothe them, u say that the catholic church ir filled with devients and pedo's and im not deniyin tht pedo's who join the church to get near kids should be kastrated lyke but dnt u dare cus the name of the catholic church cause it will be here long after were gone
MyBuddy94 1 year ago
@MyBuddy94 well if they are lets hope they are teaching better grammar!
jambamz 1 year ago
@loptosko1 no shit sherlock?
ranbrent 1 year ago
@loptosko1 NO.
ElisewinAlmayer 1 year ago
@loptosko1 nope
bigguyviet100 1 year ago
What sickens me is the fact that they use the name of God to justify this crap. This is not GOD's work, this is MAN's work. This is selfishness and torture.
mortic0n 2 years ago 8
This movie is one of the greates what I have ever seen. It's painful to watch but it really open your eyes. I can't believe how people have use religions by an excuse to do such a brutal things. And I can't believe, how those nuns though that they are pure and not sinned when they hurt those girls?! Humans are just... so much pure shit.
Puppy91 2 years ago 5
Christianity isn't a religion and most Catholics aren't even Christians either. Claiming that it's 'in the name of God' is just an excuse so they can get away with shit like that. The Catholic church is more of a cult, although there are some that aren't like that at all. God wouldn't say all of that stuff of which they are claiming must be done. That is just human stupidity and foolishness.
VictorianStrawberry 2 years ago 5
Catholocism is dying slowly in Ireland. All the revelations of sick corruption that has been buried is only hastening its demise, thank God (oops!)
TheRobster2007 2 years ago 6
@TheRobster2007
its not just catholicism that is dying, and not just in ireland either, try the whole of Europe
and anyway, why blame the whole of catholicism over one film you saw about one of its workhouse set around the 1950's?
every religion has its skeletons in its closet, not just christianity and definatly not just catholicism.
you let one film obscure your judgment, isnt that what christianity teaches that the devil does?
MrRipster 2 years ago 4
Ummm, no. I let my life experiences "obscure" my judgement. The devil teaches that one film does that? Whaaaa?? One of its workhouses? What about all the others? The paedophile priests, the Christian Brothers, stifling dogma, so on and etc.! Oh, and just to be a real devil's advocate (ha!) I never saw this movie, just that clip! Thanks for the insight ;-)
TheRobster2007 2 years ago
@TheRobster2007
'stifling dogma'? like the dogma henry 8th built protestantism upon? oh yeah.
MrRipster 2 years ago
@MrRipster I wouldn't say its just one film but a whole catalogue of wrongdoings, looks more like you are the one who has their judgement obscured, by dare I say it,
Catholicism
jambamz 1 year ago
I thought Ireland was 90 percent Catholic,that could be hard to imagine that it could fall out of favor since it is that popular
greeneyefull 2 years ago
Didnt Jesus say his followers had to hate their families or they could not follow him?,if more people read the bible they would see what a sinister tome it is,This will be why the priests didnt encourage people to read the bible for themselves.
spd47 2 years ago
NO, He never said hate your families, He said leave your families
ratd1958 2 years ago
Luke 14,26 read it for yourself.
spd47 2 years ago
I stand corrected, I am humbled
ratd1958 2 years ago
No problem,all the best to you.
spd47 2 years ago
this film is so depressing
Laurasorocks 2 years ago
Ireland has come a long way since the laundries, but it goes to show that an entire society can be held accountable for the actions of an independent power. The Irish church WAS God for a very long time, and no one questioned its power. Many of these girls were "turned in" by their own fathers and families...horrifically tragic. Let's hope they learn from their mistakes, although history has consistently proven otherwise.
pegleg747 2 years ago 6
Yup, recent events prove your point.
TheRobster2007 2 years ago
Beautiful Movie, Definitely an eye-opener.
StephenTatumActing 2 years ago 3
the mars volta has a song based on the magdalene asylums... caled asilos magdalena.
sebastianA7X 2 years ago
fuck religion, fuck christianity
heyss 2 years ago
it doesn't....just asking a question
Shannon2993 2 years ago
these launderies were all closed by 1996 thank god dut the girls never reseaved any thing affter there release. that is what we should be waging war against. the catholic church should be cleansed of it's sins before it can cleanse the sins of others.
scygon344 2 years ago 3
Shock. Film shows not only the crimes of church but also those of Irish people too. Were those girls dragged by force from their houses, against the will and with protests of family? No! Often the fathers themselves sent their own daughters to those places of horror. The Ryan Report should equally list the Irish people as quilty of these abuse and crimes. Without the support and dedication of Irish families to terrorize the victimes, the Magdalene Sisters wouldn't existed so long (till 1996).
MerewynKazan 2 years ago 7
I thank you, it would seem i did not have all the info i needed to make a good comment. and why did you you start with shock i only stated what i saw and thought.
scygon344 2 years ago
I agree. Did the Ryan Report cover the Magdalene asylums? I didn't think it had..
Earthsoul22 2 years ago
i love the part at the end where she chases the nun into a room and bangs on the door
andrea299100 2 years ago 3
The Catholic church has gone evil.
coffeefish 2 years ago
what do you mean? has gone evil, or was evil?
Shannon2993 2 years ago
What does it matter?
coffeefish 2 years ago
always was evil.Ireland was a backward state whilst the church ran it.
southsieed 2 years ago
Choose your enemies well. This was an evil thing that was done by the sate, no less evil than deportation of children to Austrailia by the British government.
cuculainn1970 2 years ago 3
I am unaware of this fact.I will study it. Thanks for the advice
southsieed 2 years ago
Very true Cuculain1970, however these terrible acts were carried out in the name of a supposed benevolent Religion. We don't expect better from any government.
And as for all the other allegations of Child Abuse from around the world....
DraganBulic1 2 years ago
I watched this when I was quite young and it made me so depressed haha
bananacraig 2 years ago
This movie is so intense it made me cry. Well, not actually cry, but it made me sad. Well, not exactly, but I did feel some twinges of unhappiness. OK, I was pretty happy when I saw it. OK, it made me very happy. But it's still an intense movie.
mackler 2 years ago 2
lol.
zcheeseolly 2 years ago
yesterday i saw the movie. i think it so horrible to do someting like this to your own child.
kayleelovekiss 2 years ago
This is an amazing, excellent and very powerful movie.
MountainQueen 2 years ago
wow they really missed the theme of the movie. They never inspired a nation they were hated by one.
Wolflady13 2 years ago
Wow, epic. I wanna see it!
MuffinGirl94 2 years ago
i believe in what's right not in what ppl tell me to believe
hailtheradio 2 years ago 3
But there are alot of people in the world that believe its right to abuse women, murder others and molest children even though its not. If you werent educated in whats right and wrong, you wouldnt know either. So sometimes its right to tell others what to believe, and its right to listen to the person telling you what to believe.
MinderOne 2 years ago
good point
hailtheradio 2 years ago