RE: Sexual Abuse in Social Context: Clergy and other (Secular) Professionals.
July 14, 2023 at 7:07 am
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2023 at 7:10 am by Fake Messiah.)
Well, maybe it could have stayed closed since Nishant is mostly making rape apologies for pedophile priests.
The big difference is that teachers in secular schools get persecuted while priests remain unpunished and protected by the Catholic Church. They are left to investigate internally in the Church which amounts to nothing (they are above the law), and the only reason some of them get persecuted is because of loud voices like us.
The church is even lobbying for laws to protect pedophile priests wasting millions of dollars to which you participate.
(July 13, 2023 at 9:33 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Now, as promised, let's come to the 2nd data point, the statistics for Secular Teachers. And what are Priests btw? Nothing but Religious Teachers, i.e. Teachers of Religion. So the analogy is exact. And the stats show that in the same way that Secular Teachers are Teachers of Math, Science etc. and obviously, there is nothing in Math, Science etc that causes them to abuse, neither is there likewise in Christianity or Religion. Let's look at the stats:
The big difference is that teachers in secular schools get persecuted while priests remain unpunished and protected by the Catholic Church. They are left to investigate internally in the Church which amounts to nothing (they are above the law), and the only reason some of them get persecuted is because of loud voices like us.
The church is even lobbying for laws to protect pedophile priests wasting millions of dollars to which you participate.
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"
