re: #78 Anymouse 🌹

All churches have this problem to one degree to another.

reformation.com (list from local press accounts of churches of every denomination involved in child or adult sexual abuse)

The Catholic Church just gets the best press. The SBC is coming under scrutiny. They all have that problem.

Churches are guess what? Made up of humans.

Of course there are many churches that have pedophilia and many other abuse issues. They are made up of humans.

There are also people not in churches that are also abusers. I get the notifications in the mail all the time put out by Franklin County (OH) when one is moving into the area. Not many ex-priests or pastors on them.

I bet you many of those were known by their families who covered for them. Weird Uncle Ernie, fiddle about…fiddle about.

They’re everywhere!

Yes, I acknowledge some abusers go into some of these institutions for cover and convenience. There is probably a sick attraction involved. It’s been acknowledged for 30 years now in the Catholic Church as far as the public issue. It’s probably gone on forever. That may make some of the bigger churches a place they want to get into due to the history.

I’m not making light of this either.

The churches do cover for them, the same way their families cover for them. Embarrassment, legal, costs, family name protection, appearances, ignorance is bliss, etc.

What is going to be interesting is how the churches will handle this now and in the future. Will their be some kind of screening and much more attention given to personal record? Will they be much more watchful and have much more lack of privacy that lends itself?

I saw you mention the 1% of people like you that can still get some sicknesses repeatedly. You said 1% of the population of this country is a lot of people.

What is the percentage of this country’s population considered to be sexual abusers? I don’t know, but I bet it is higher than 1%.