You think long and hard enough about something you can spin it into anything…
Yes, that’s one of the more prominent benefits of the postmodernists’ deconstructionist “everything is a subjectively interpretable narrative” approach to reality. Naturally, deconstructionism has a bosom buddy in exe- and eisegesis.
… what is the motive here for him to come up with this?
Damage control and refurbishing the RCC’s tainted image. With a new boss comes a new broom. The old boss carried the stench of paedophilia cover-ups all around him. Today we have a gentler dispensation (*vomit*), and Africa is the only continent where Roman Catholicism is growing. This happy coincidence
must be exploited!
But if, as Cardinal Napier has it, paedophilia is “a psychological condition, a disorder”, one has to wonder why his god blesses such an inordinate number of his own most loyal devotees with this disturbing syndrome.
Oh wait, it’s theology that’s beyond the grasp of we ordinary mortals — and most of all beyond the grasp of those kids who were and are at the sharp end of this god-ordained condition, this god-crafted disorder.
'Luthon64