Never ending molestation

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Link to tweet

[Funtatlaguy]

1. Come on now, maybe he was just checking her for demons.

Those pesky rabbits can hide anywhere.

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2. Right?

It's amazing to me, after all the pain this church has inflicted through the centuries, that they still exist.
A testament to the power of brainwashing.

[whathehell]

6. You do know that independent investigations

have found the percentage of pedophile priests to be about 6%, and that this number mirrors that of men in other professions, right?

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10. "only" 6%?

i certainly would never knowingly have anything to do with any group with an incidence of pedophilia that high, and i certainly wouldn't want my child to have anything to do with it either!

[whathehell]

16. Yes, about the same percentage as that of pedophiles in other

professions, like Medicine, Education, Law, etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2010/mar/11/catholic-abuse-priests

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/do-the-right-thing/201808/separating-facts-about-clergy-abuse-fiction

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19. if i'm understanding correctly,

one of the key differences is that the priesthood has a professional component to the crimes.

that is, incidence of pedophilia among lawyers might also be 6%, but this is probably not lawyers abusing their child clients or other children they encounter in the course of doing business as a lawyer. instead, they are abusing their own children. in that context, they merely happen to be lawyers; it's not relevant to the pedophilia.

in the case of priests, they're accused of abusing children who are not their own, children who they encounter as a result of their profession.


of course, pedophilia is certainly wrong in either case, but it would seem that the problem in the priesthood could be managed better, say with security cameras, proactive education, better enforcement, etc.

[whathehell]

20. Likely in the same manner as ministers, rabbis and school teachers

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Pedophile doctors like Larry Nasser of the USA Olympic gymnastics team, clearly commit their crimes within the scope of their professions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/larry-nassar-former-usa-gymnastics-doctor-due-to-be-sentenced-for-sex-crimes/2018/01/24/9acc22f8-0115-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html?utm_term=.9db6726b5b37

[ZZenith]

11. You do know that they've actively protected that percentage from prosecution for decades, right?

[trev]

12. They're supposed to be intensely moral men.

That's what they keep proclaiming.

[whathehell]

18. It's horrible, but links in post #16 show clergy of other religions

molest just as much.

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13. 300 Pennsylvania Catholic priests sexually abused over 1,000 children

Despite the fact that the report covers just six of Pennsylvania’s eight dioceses — just a fraction of the dioceses in America overall — it suggests a widespread and large-scale operation on the part of church hierarchy nationwide to cover up the behavior of offending priests and help them escape punishment.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwjtpbyN5JPhAhW1IDQIHVShA8EQzPwBCAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2F2018%2F8%2F15%2F17689994%2Fcatholic-sex-abuse-priest-crisis-pennsylvania-report&psig=AOvVaw1VvDWJE4hOtqjSYoCI6L4E&ust=1553276525376691

[whathehell]

17. Dating from 1949..

It's appalling, of course, but that statement, without the dates, suggests these are RECENT crimes, when about 80% of them are not.

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4. I'd love to see assholes like this

At room temperature.

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7. This is supposed to be funny?

Or am I misreading it?

[Beakybird]

14. A lame attempt at humor. Sorry.

[Blue_true]

5. Feeling up a woman while giving her last rites? Nothing is sacred anymore. nt

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. I did not leave the Catholic Church...It left me...

[Pope George Ringo II]

9. If clowns molested children with the same frequency as priests

It would be illegal to take your children to the circus.

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15. Yup

[whathehell]

21. Maybe it should be illegal to let your children see doctors

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/larry-nassar-former-usa-gymnastics-doctor-due-to-be-sentenced-for-sex-crimes/2018/01/24/9acc22f8-0115-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html?utm_term=.9db6726b5b

or join gymnastics teams.