RE: Gay, Catholic and Doing Fine
February 11, 2016 at 12:52 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2016 at 12:34 pm by Mister Agenda.)
athrock Wrote:Mister Agenda Wrote:Source? Other institutions have similar problems, but I'm interested in knowing what study determined that the rate is lower in the RCC.
And those other institutions don't claim to represent God on Earth.
Google it.
In addition to child molestation issues, the Protestant clergy also has problems with divorce and adultery that the Catholic priesthood does not have for obvious reasons.
And no, those groups don't represent God on earth, but the Church doesn't claim to BE God on Earth...just to be the people of God on earth. The people - all of them combined - are the Church, and we've never claimed to be perfect.
After Googling, I find that there has been no formal study that shows that Catholic clergy molest at a lower rate than other institutions. I'm perfectly aware that there is no evidence that they molest at a higher rate, and don't claim that they do. However, you did claim that they molest at a lower rate, and there is no scientific support for that.
By 'not perfect' you seem to mean 'not the slightest bit better at refraining from committing crimes than any other demographic'. You'd think the people of God could do better, if they were actually the people of God.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.