Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
It always amazes me, statistically speaking, how many priests are attracted to children.
I mean, isnt this amazingly high in relation to the general population? Did they just troll every sex offender ward for clergy candidates at some point?
And, hey, if you cant have sex at gunpoint, when can you have sex?  |
I think and especially with the older priests it was called running to the cloth. The disturbed, the pedo's and conflicted homosexuals all saw the priest hood as the way to go because they felt that either the church would shelter them, or that with god's help they could control themselves or find a peacefull state of mind.
It was an attractive proposition for some, you also probably had some sick minded people who saw that priests had a lot of interaction with young kids so they joined because it was a target rich environment.
There was never any kind of testing to become a priest, they basically took every one, made them take their vows and sent them off to be educated.
It no surprise that we're seeing these kinds of incidences because Victims don't feel the same kind of pressures to keep quiet as they used to.