(November 30, 2016 at 2:52 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: and the churches own records show that 'small percentage' has been molesting for 1500 years
A group of people who have been around for 2000 years, of course there are always going to be bad seeds among those people for those entire 2000 years.
Priests are not more likely to molest children than any average man. In fact, the occupation that has been most guilty of molesting children are teachers. So I don't understand the stereotype that priests are molesters when they don't do it any more often than the general public, and in fact less often than other vocations.
As for covering up, I do think that people working within the Church are more likely to cover up that sort of thing than those working in schools or other types of institutions, so I will give you that. I'm assuming because they want to avoid scandal and bad PR more so than schools do, for example, since a person's Church is much more a part of their identity than what school they currently for.
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