A question for parents

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After numerous accounts of child sexual abuse that has been reported WHY continue letting your children be alone with religious officials?

Because children will be safe under the supervision of the average clergyman. Now, what do you make of the fact that teachers are more likely to be child molesters than Catholic priests? No parent should ever allow his child to be left alone with teachers, correct?

Except that in the event that a teacher does abuse a child there isn't a huge organisation behind him or her that will go to extraordinary lengths to protect, hide and move the culprit on to pastures new where they can safely prey on other children.

The problem is not that there were paedophiles in the ranks of Catholic (mainly) churches. The problem is the reaction of the church and the fact that its actions exposed more children to abuse.

Its hard to imagine how the church could have handled the problem in a worse way.

Yet again therefore - God provides no perceivable, tangible benefit for a real horror story. In fact, one could argue that, yet again, God made the problem worse by creating an institution that felt it could not admit wrong-doing in its clergy.