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Originally Posted by blankall
No doubt. That's an awful experience. Still a minority of people who are religious get abused. Lots of people who aren't religious get abused too.
Once again, the solution here is just to enforce laws. Giving members of a religious organization a pass on being criminally responsible, merely because they are members of a religious organization, is absurd. Enforcement of laws would also include going after people who are adding and abiding the perpetrators by, for example, covering up their crimes or putting them in situations where they are likely to continue committing crimes.
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Good points, but I think it goes beyond just saying abuse happens in the church and outside the church so it's a wash.
Isn't it possible the church
attracts pedophiles? Again, if you live an areligious life, you don't submit yourself or your children to any leader in the same way you do if you belong to a religion. You don't tell a weird old virgin intimate details about your life and then have him tell you what to do to make yourself whole again. You don't have a concept of somebody ranking above you on a cosmic scale that can hold sway over your eternal soul. And if you're areligious you would never dream of putting your kids in a position of being with an authority figure who would not face legal consequences were he to abuse or assault them.
That parents defer authority and protection of their kids to an institution with such a track record of consequence-free abuse is actually psycho.