Imagine knowing that a child is being molested and not doing anything to stop it. Or if your religion requires you to be passive about child abuse, then your religion isn't worth following.
Quote:The lead bishop for safeguarding in England and Wales, Paul Mason, has said that mandatory reporting of disclosures of child abuse cannot break the seal of the confessional, because it would turn the priest “from a minister of God to an agent of the state”.
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/16026/s...ays-bishop
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
