"No one knows the magnitude, because no one has conducted a study,"
So the logical conclusion is that it doesn't happen? Despite plentiful evidence that you reject out of some misogynistic paranoia? You are wasting time. Have fun with your denial.
The discussion, here,
was how the stories are used,
not if they happened.
It's a wide, wide world.
Bad things happen every day.
No one says they don't.
But propaganda
takes events, holds them up as
representative . . .
Only close study
can tell us if events are
random happenings
or an in-grained part
of a culture. Heck, we hear
lots of reports of
priests abusing boys.
Nobody denies the news.
But most people don't
hold up the events
as defining qualities
of Western Christians.
Rigorous thinking
is never a waste of time.
Propaganda is.