|
As an ordained minister in a Church I'm obviously I'm a religious man...
But to address the OP - isn't the child abuse thing more a Catholic problem rather than all Christian religions. I know it is in Ireland and the UK. And also to say that 'people who abuse are equal opportunists' as Nov said needs to be expanded on... Childabusers end to find positions where they have access to children (like priest/teacher/coach/youth leader). But that is not the real problem with the Catholic church and th child abuse scandel - the biggest kick in the teeth as the reaction by the Church Hierarchy and how they dealt with it...They made huge payoffs to the familys of abused children so they wouldn't bring charges against the priest and wouldn't bring the abuse to the public's knowledge..They then moved the priest to another parish where in some cases the abuse continued..This knowledge went all the way to the top...
How anyone can support a church like this is beyond me - sure its just a few 'bad apples' as people like to say but its the Church Hierachy its self that tryed to cover up and hide the fact that representatives of its organisation were raping children - and instead of outting these criminals or as least removing them from positions where they could continue to do harm they instead just relocated them to another parish...
sorry for the rant but its just something I feel strongly about..
|