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Where is the Outrage? (protestant pedophiles)

Penn State professor Philip Jenkens reported that between 2 to 3 percent of Protestant clergy are pedophiles. His same study reported that less than 1.7 percent of Catholic priests are pedophiles. There is simply no reason to think that clergy child molesters are solely a Catholic problem. The results of this survey were reported in the book, Ministerial Ethics by Joe Trull and James Carter (2d ed. 2004), and in The Baptist Standard editorial, “Churches must act to prevent clergy sexual abuse,” 4/22/2002. (source: The voice of SNAP Baptist).
http://stopbaptistpredators.org/alarmingnumbers.html

I suppose that without the little altar boys and without the cloistered celibacy that problem is not really happening among biblical Christians. Since all manner of non-catholic kooky cults, television “evangelists”, and emerging church heretics are usually included under the term “Protestant”, I have no idea how bad the situation might be in those errant groups. But, it is at epidemic proportions in the Roman crowd.

I agree that both the Catholic and evangelical churches are responsible to watch for pedophile behavior of their priests and pastors. Both will be judged by God at the end. I would hate to stand before the Lord being accused and judged guilty of this.

With the above out of the way, the Bible says very clearly when you become a new Christian, you are a new person. That means that Christ has made you a new person. He comes to live in you. That doesn’t mean that a new Christian is not going to have the sinful desires, he or she probably will. They may experience what is known as a bounce, they will bounce between doing right to please God and doing wrong to please their old sin nature. As a person grows in Jesus, there should be less and less desire to please the old sin nature. He becomes dependent on the Holy Spirit to set him free from homosexual or whatever desires that are wrong. God can set a person free of lust, but they must learn to abide in Jesus, too, and not return to the old ways of life.

Penn State professor Philip Jenkens reported that between 2 to 3 percent of Protestant clergy are pedophiles. His same study reported that less than 1.7 percent of Catholic priests are pedophiles. There is simply no reason to think that clergy child molesters are solely a Catholic problem.

In no way could the study be accurate...

In the Protestant religions, the guilty are ostracized while in the Catholic religion the guilty are hidden, moved around to new locations and allowed and apparently encouraged to continue on with their crimes...

The 1.7% may reflect how many Catholic clergy have become exposed to the general public but it's the ones that your religion hides and protects that we are more concerned about...And we have no idea how many of them there are...