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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Every time someone tries to smear Protestant churches with the same lecherous brush as the RCC, I have to laugh. No organization is perfect, but no one even comes close to the homosexual pedophilia among the RC clergy and the tragic scandals and broken lives that have ensued as the layers of deceit have been peeled back to expose the truth.

No, your 'facts' are in error again.

The mainstream media has all but ignored the recent Associated Press report that the three major insurance companies for Protestant Churches in America say they typically receive 260 reports each year of minors being sexually abused by Protestant clergy, staff, or other church-related relationships.

$660,000,000 in one day paid out by the Los Angeles Archdiocese to settle sexual assault cases. That amount of money is almost incomprehensible. And yet it was a two-day story and it's over.

Deep pockets mean big settlements. What is incomprehensible is a person claiming to be a Christian taking so much joy in child molestation scandals.

4,047 posted on 03/15/2008 9:40:43 AM PDT by Hacksaw (I support the tiger.)
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To: Hacksaw; wmfights; Forest Keeper; HarleyD; Alex Murphy; Gamecock; 1000 silverlings; ...
It's to be expected that the same old defenses are trotted out over and over rather than just a clear acknowledgment of error and regret.

First of all 260 reports among the many Protestant denominations is nothing compared to the scandal within the RCC. In our local RC parish five miles from my home, two priests were removed, tried and convicted of dozen of sexual assaults on minors.

And as we've shown over and over, those 260 reports of abuse are not exclusively among the clergy as in the RCC sexual abuse cases, but include members of the congregation, church and office workers and the janitorial staff.

The actual number of errant clergy is much less.

An orchard full of bad apples compared to an occasional orange.

There are two glaring reasons for this...

1) the Protestant clergy is married, unlike the RCC which demands an unhealthy and unnatural celibacy for its monastic clergy, thereby not only creating deviants, but actually drawing them to its doors.

2) Protestant churches have a system of checks and balances built within its organization, as Scripture instructs, so that errant clergy are not protected and shuffled from one unsuspecting church to another, but are immediately removed from the pulpit.

In great part the problem for the RCC resides in the diabolical fact that the RCC tells its flock these miscreants are "another Christ." We shouldn't be surprised tragedy follows in the wake of that hellish lie.

"But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." -- 1 Corinthians 8:6

Rent a DVD of the award-winning documentary, "Deliver Us From Evil."

It explains a lot.

4,052 posted on 03/15/2008 10:18:40 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Hacksaw
Bigger fonts does not make it any less false.

No one is taking "joy" in these scandals except perhaps for those who cover them up so religiously.

Watch the DVD. It is utterly heart-breaking. Not only are young boys' lives destroyed; not only do they become suicidal from the guilt and shame; not only do they become homosexual themselves due to this early deviant sexual influence; but whole families are torn apart. The parents of the abused children in this film lose their faith entirely because of the massive, cruel betrayal of the church in which they were baptized, confirmed, married, and finally, so thoroughly destroyed.

4,055 posted on 03/15/2008 10:38:22 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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