Religious Nuts beat their own Child to death.

[Thor]

I watched a documentary about an Irish priest. Fucked if I can remember his name, but he lived in California for awhile and managed to rape and/or molest hundreds of children, while the church simply moved him around whenever things got suspicious. He was even sleeping with the mother of one of the children he was raping. He would go to bed with her and then get up at night and rape her daughter. He even raped an infant. He was eventually moved back to Ireland, where he is a free man. Anyway, the documentary had a lot of commentary by the priest himself. He never justified it, but he never seemed really sorry. He actually thought that writing a letter to all of the people that he hurt would make up for it. Of course, someone forbade him to do so. I believe it may have been the church. There were a lot of higher ups in the church involved in the eventual trial, but somehow they all got away with it.

The point I am trying to make is that while making their justifications for it, they cease to view it as wrong.

This reminds me of a joke.

A priest is hearing confession one day when he has to run to the men's room. No one is in the confessional and he peeks out to see that no one is in the church, but he doesn't want to leave the confessional unoccupied. He spots two altar boys and he calls one over.

"Hey, Timmy! Get over here!"

"Yes, Father?"

"Look, I need to run to the bathroom. Just sit in here until I get back."

Timmy asks what he should do if anyone enters the confessional. The priest shows Timmy a chart that lists infractions with the corresponding penance. He tells Timmy that the chart is alphabetized, so it's easy to use. He demonstrates that if someone says they swore, you look down the chart under the letter "S". Once you find "swear" you look at the next column and you'll see that the penance is ten Hail Mary's. Timmy tells the priest that he understands and the priest scurries off.

A few minutes later a woman enters the confessional. She says, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I gave a blow job to a man who is not my husband!"

Timmy immediately starts looking through the chart.

Blow job.... Blow job...

He can't find it anywhere! Finally, Timmy sticks his head out of the confessional and calls to his fellow altar boy.

"Hey, Billy! Do you know what Father John gives for a blow job?"

"Yeah. A handful of gummy bears and a Snickers bar."