Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags

[Questor]

What amazes me is the previous lack of outrage against religious organizations that have a history of financial, political, and sexual abuse when it has been plain for decades, if not centuries, that all of thise horrors have been going on in plain sight, and swept under the carpet simply because no one dared say anything about it.

I fear it is only because they claim to be religious in some way that they have been exempted by those who do not wish to see the evil that is being done as a matter of course. One then can place politics as form of religion, since it mimics religion so well.

The label of being religious is not, and should not be, an excuse to ignore what is the worst of human behavior. Religion is not in and of itself necessarily benign, it it?

Let me guess, despite all the evidence to the contrary*, your cult doesn't do any of this stuff.

*I've seen your bio, you're a fundagelical LARPing as a jewish convert.  Of course your cult is neck deep in all the evils you describe.

There are only five or so sects within Judaism, and only some small groups of the Haredi (Super-Orthodox) have cult-like tendencies where the tendency to follow the dictates of their Rabbi might encourage such abuse. The Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist viewpoints differ only in ways you would not be interested in, and cannot really be easily discerned from one another. None have particularly large congregations, and thus cannot maintain the control needed for religious uniformity that leads to abuse. I am not saying it doesn't happen, because it does, but it is very localized. All reject Messianic Jews/Notsrim, and have done so since 126 AD, no matter how orthodox their customs and traditions.
 
I have never belonged to a church, and was raised in a secular Jewish family that never used the word G-d, complained about the necessity of even attending weddings in churches, and never spoke of their heritage except by accident. I have attempted the occasional attendance at various xtian assemblies, and found myself promptly kicked out the moment I asked an inconvenient question, much as happened at the various Christian Forums I have attempted to find a decent conversation at, although I always remained polite enough to not be banned.
 
I don't LARP, finding the assumption of Jewish customs by non-Jews to raise in me a slight feeling of nausea, as those doing so have no idea of what they are attempting, and myself having been raised in a secular family, I follow only such customs as are related to the Moedim (festivals) and Shabbats. I merely follow to the best of my ability those commandments as written in what non-Jews call the Old Testament, as they are written, and pay little attention to Jewish tradition.
 
I could more properly be called a Nazarene, but only in the sense that Jews in the First Century were called 'Notsrim'. We were highly orthodox in behavior, and were well accepted amongst Jews until political differences led to persecution. Were I living in Israel, Notsrim is what I would be called. Nazarenes in the western countries, however, in this late era, are far too Greco-Roman in outlook for my taste, presuming I could find a fellowship to attend. 
 
So, one stretches a little and label's oneself a Messianic Jew, which, since most Jews, even the Haredi, are looking forward to the coming of the Messiah, can be taken a lot of ways.
 
As for what each Messianic Jewish fellowship has difficulties with in regard to money, power and sex, I have no knowledge of, but I have some doubts as to whether they have sufficient money or power to hide anything from their members. Each assembly (synagogue) is small, disconnected from one another except for holding to some general principles under a few umbrella organizations that have no power over their members, and all synagogues are much in dispute with each other, even as it is said that when two Jews meet, you will have three opinions in regard to almost any matter, secular or religious.
 
However, you are correct that the ratio of Jews to Hebraic-seeking xtian’s is quite low in Messianic synagogues, but those non-Jews that wish to adopt Jewish culture find few cultural rules of behavior, or halacha, to guide them, and soon re-orient on the Hebraic Roots movement if what they want is to feel more Jewish than Greco-Roman without actually dealing with the Covenants that Jews believe require them to act in certain specific ways. 

Not that you precisely asked for the above informaion, but is there anything else you want to know?