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Originally Posted by Fuzz
By refusing to acknowledge the TRC reports and their obligations under it, and their payments they bailed on. Failing to take responsibility and publicly apologizing. The abuse is mental at this point. By not cooperating with investigations and releasing all documents they have, they continue the abuse. How can they be expected to heal when the perpetrators of their abuse continue to act this way?
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All of those are bad things, yes. But I don't agree that they amount to "continuing the abuse". There is an enormous difference - worlds apart - between the abuse that was committed and the things that are being done now to fail to acknowledge or deal with it. Those can't be conflated, the one is not a continuation of the other.
I certainly understand how upsetting it is that the Church isn't releasing information or paying what they should be paying in restitution, or that their past apologies for this conduct aren't satisfying, but a) that isn't in any way comparable to the crimes it actually committed, and b) in my view, at least, is nowhere
near enough to justify going around vandalizing and burning churches.
The argument about whether I'm right about "b)" is probably academic anyway. Let's face it, people aren't really vandalizing and burning churches to try to spur some action by the Church itself. They're just angry, and want to express that anger by doing some damage to the entity that's making them angry. It's not really complicated. It's
understandable, as you've said - human beings do this stuff. But it's not reasonably defensible.