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Catholics, hold my beer - sincerely, southern baptists

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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne...-sexual-abuse-spreads-as-leaders-13588038.php

Another disgusting example of abuse of power by religious leaders.

2/27 edit: Catholics rebuttal - pfft, amateurs:

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/6980...inal-george-pell-convicted-of-child-sex-abuse

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-look-catholic-churchs-sex-abuse-problem-164321378.html

AUSTRALIA

Australia's Catholic Church has a horrific abuse record, which in part prompted the government to launch a four-year national investigation into all forms of institutional abuse — Catholic and otherwise.

The landmark survey found 4,444 people were abused at more than 1,000 Catholic institutions between 1980 and 2015.

The Royal Commission investigation, Australia's highest form of inquiry, deduced that 7 percent of Catholic priests in Australia between 1950 and 2010 had been accused of sexually abusing children.
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Zero surprise here.

I lived in the Belt and got to see it's slimy self-righteous underbelly up close. Preachers banging multiple churchgoers, running drug operations, hiring hit men, these people are unbelievable. There are some crazy cases out there, but it seems like this might be #Metoo making the cracks in American christianity a whole lot bigger.

And the ranks of America's atheists and agnostic continue to grow.
 
kage69 said:
Zero surprise here.

I lived in the Belt and got to see it's slimy self-righteous underbelly up close. Preachers banging multiple churchgoers, running drug operations, hiring hit men, these people are unbelievable. There are some crazy cases out there, but it seems like this might be #Metoo making the cracks in American christianity a whole lot bigger.

And the ranks of America's atheists and agnostic continue to grow.
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But they drink grape juice instead of wine during their services so they can’t be that bad. amirite.

My parents took me to the local middle class suburban southern Baptist church when I was little. When I hit my early teens I stopped going because I could see the hypocrisy
 
This must be why they are so against abortion, ignore the fact that when one of the pastors knocks up a church goers daughter they encourage her to get one, they want to be able to play with them and destroy them first.
 
God damn this is a little too much on the nose

Some registered sex offenders returned to the pulpit. Others remain there, including a Houston preacher who sexually assaulted a teenager and now is the principal officer of a Houston nonprofit that works with student organizations, federal records show. Its name: Touching the Future Today Inc.
 
Paratus said:
God damn this is a little too much on the nose

Some registered sex offenders returned to the pulpit. Others remain there, including a Houston preacher who sexually assaulted a teenager and now is the principal officer of a Houston nonprofit that works with student organizations, federal records show. Its name: Touching the Future Today Inc.
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That name said all I needed to know.
 
Paratus said:
God damn this is a little too much on the nose

Some registered sex offenders returned to the pulpit. Others remain there, including a Houston preacher who sexually assaulted a teenager and now is the principal officer of a Houston nonprofit that works with student organizations, federal records show. Its name: Touching the Future Today Inc.
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Talking about being right on the nose.
 
It's beyond me to think it's ok for a grown man to be left alone for hours unsupervised with young children really in any setting. Even if there isn't criminal activity it's just a huge liability risk.
 
In my early teens my Mother forced us to attend a Congregational Church. One Sunday in October the pastor, after the sermon, adds that he has been so busy tending to his flock that he hadn't had time to get firewood in to heat the parsonage and if anybody had any extra to give him it would be appreciated. We heated our house with wood and were diligent about keeping our wood supply up and so we had a full woodshed of about 20 cords of split firewood. My Mom, being the subservient Christian she was spoke up and said we had wood and the pastor could come and get some. On Monday while I was at school the pastor, who had no time to get his own wood, gathered up friends etc and emptied our woodshed leaving only bark behind. What a Christian thing to do, the jerk! It was a scramble for me and my brother to get stocked up as the snow was already falling. The good part about the story is that I never went back to church again. While I won't say there are not any good Christians I will say that being one does not guarantee good behavior.

I expect to see a lot more sex scandals in all denominations. The lax oversight of religious folks being alone with young people makes it a certainty. In my case I guess I should be happy the pastor only took firewood. I had completed my confirmation with him the year before, frequently alone with him. Of course I was nearly as large as he was so he would have had a battle on his hands.
 
Sunburn74 said:
It's beyond me to think it's ok for a grown man to be left alone for hours unsupervised with young children really in any setting. Even if there isn't criminal activity it's just a huge liability risk.
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I look after groups of kids on my own a lot. I mean I don't want to but I get volunteered for it.

Theres no reason why blokes shouldn't look after kids apart from it being a massive pain in the arse. Dont let the fact that there are a few weirdos out there change the way we live.
 
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” ― Steven Weinberg
 
wirelessenabled said:
In my early teens my Mother forced us to attend a Congregational Church. One Sunday in October the pastor, after the sermon, adds that he has been so busy tending to his flock that he hadn't had time to get firewood in to heat the parsonage and if anybody had any extra to give him it would be appreciated. We heated our house with wood and were diligent about keeping our wood supply up and so we had a full woodshed of about 20 cords of split firewood. My Mom, being the subservient Christian she was spoke up and said we had wood and the pastor could come and get some. On Monday while I was at school the pastor, who had no time to get his own wood, gathered up friends etc and emptied our woodshed leaving only bark behind. What a Christian thing to do, the jerk! It was a scramble for me and my brother to get stocked up as the snow was already falling. The good part about the story is that I never went back to church again. While I won't say there are not any good Christians I will say that being one does not guarantee good behavior.

I expect to see a lot more sex scandals in all denominations. The lax oversight of religious folks being alone with young people makes it a certainty. In my case I guess I should be happy the pastor only took firewood. I had completed my confirmation with him the year before, frequently alone with him. Of course I was nearly as large as he was so he would have had a battle on his hands.
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The fact that you were about the same size probably saved you. I was always scrawny until my senior year in high school, I was preyed upon.
 
Everytime this happens I just get more and more convinced that religion came about in its entirety as if it was originally some NAMBLA group....

Well, that and a group that managed to con retards into giving them money as well.
 
DarthKyrie said:
This must be why they are so against abortion, ignore the fact that when one of the pastors knocks up a church goers daughter they encourage her to get one, they want to be able to play with them and destroy them first.
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What better way to exploit the innocents by acquiring positions of trust and authority. These wolves dressed in lamb's clothing are hiding among the flock, picking off the vulnerable ones one by one.

They hide behind the shield of the very shame they bring with their predatory behavior, realizing that the church hierarchy would rather bury these heinous acts in the cloak of obscurity than admit they had failed their congregations by allowing such despicable acts to occur under their noses.
 
I talked with a childhood friend who is a Baptist preacher about the sex scandals in the catholic church.
He told me -- you think we are so different?
Then he said the only difference between mainstream religions and the catholic church is that some denominations are just better at hiding the problem!!
 
s0me0nesmind1 said:
I'm honestly curious if it's just a Christian church problem or if it extends to other religions that are keeping things hidden better.
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IMO, it's not just Christianity. If you look just at the two biggest mainstream religions, that over half the world's population is part of, I think you'll find it's not just Christianity. It's what happens when fear is used to gain trust, that type of power can be weilded in really harmful ways.
 
s0me0nesmind1 said:
I'm honestly curious if it's just a Christian church problem or if it extends to other religions that are keeping things hidden better.
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It is an issue in religions that treat people and their sexual impulses as if they can be separated from one another. So this basically covers all religion.
 
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