“Committed Christian my a**. He’s a guy who got caught and is hiding behind God.”
Am I recalling correctly that you are, or used to be, a prosecutor? If so, I’m curious - how often did you see things like this? By that, I mean people getting caught in some misdeed, and running to/hiding behind religion to try to get out of it.
I was a Prosecutor in VA for about 25 years.
We used to see this all the time. It was very much like the Celeb who gets caught cheating and then claims “sex addiction”. No, you aren’t a sex addict ... you were just horny and got caught.
I can’t think of an instance of sex abuse like unto this case where suddenly Jesus was used as a shield and/or an excuse. Suddenly, Jesus and God was everywhere. Needless to say, we never bought it even if there was a history of “religion”. We always found that if there was a history of “religion” that that too was just used as cover before they got caught. It is amazing to me how many people, how many Christians, let down their guard when someone says “I’m a Christian”. Perhaps it’s the Prosecutor in me, but I need a whole lot more than that.