re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Depends on how you define hyperbole.

I know for sure that 600,000 dead from covid is only a tiny fraction of the American population, but I know for damn sure I am not going to hang around conservatives who deny the seriousness of the problem.

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Abuse by Clergy Is Not Just a Catholic Problem (more, New York Times, April 13, 2002)

And that “hard to come by” statistic from then is by design of churches. The numbers aren’t better today on the extent because they want it that way.

15% is a hell of a big number of clergy who have engaged in “inappropriate behaviour.”

So the number is roughly one-in-seven. That’s a hell of a lot better odds than dying of covid to date.

In my mind, no, that is not hyperbole.

Moreover, churches themselves are never held responsible for the people who commit the crimes.

hy*​per*​bo*​le | \ hī-ˈpər-bə-(ˌ)lē \
Definition of hyperbole
: extravagant exaggeration (such as “mile-high ice-cream cones”)