Amazing how quickly one's point can be proven on these threads.
Protestant Church Insurers Handle 168 Sex Abuse Cases A Year
Hey, that’s the way Satan rolls.
His fingerprints are all over the place. How can people not see it?
On the other hand, being good little socialists, they can't attack the public schools because that's the mechanism for indoctrinating our youts into their socialist paradise.
Unfortunately, many (certainly no where near a majority) Christians of other denominations, gleefully ignorant of the media agenda and having their own bigotry toward the Catholic Church, are useful idiots for the media agenda; buying in completely and continually repeating the false "pedophilia" charge.
You can see it on here with the immediate posting of any charge of abuse against Catholic priests and the following piling on. One such poster with the initials A. M. seems to wake up in the morning itching to find anything he can to slice more wounds into the Body of Christ.
Of course saying this I will immediately be maligned saying I want to ignore the problem, which is not the case. The Catholic Church is fixing its inexcusable problem with homosexual priests (not pedophiles) while serial abusers in other Christian denominations, other faiths and in our public schools are thankful that they can continue to fly under the radar...thankful knowing that to bring the same indignation to non-Catholic priest abuse would spoil all the joy the anti-Christian bigots in the media and anti-Catholic bigots in the Christian and atheist world are having.
By contrast, the series pointed out, over a 52-year period, some 4,400 priests were “accused” of molestation.
Notice the difference between the word likely when talking about teachers and "accused" priests. One is idle speculation and the other represents, well, accusations. I particularly like the way the word accused is framed in quotation marks, to diminish the use of the word.
Obviously written by a Roman Catholic apologist
Amazing how quickly one's point can be proven on these threads.
Chuck Asay had a cartoon about this.
A preacher is accused of child molestation. The people vigorously protest, the church is closed down.
The people see a good building to be used for something so they turn it into a school.
A teacher in the school is accused of child molestation and the people say...”yawn”.
**Teachers Vs. Priests - Unequal Treatment In the Media? **
I’m glad someone is picking up on this theme. I have thought it was true for a long time.
It was really about destroying the Catholic Church and getting her money.
Satan doesn’t attack what Satan already controls.
Pinging for future comment. Sounds like something we’ve been saying for a LONG time.
What I haven’t seen any good numbers for is the time frame of abuse. Most of the priest abuse happened years ago, while teacher sexual abuse is ongoing. And most of the time the law is such that a teacher will be allowed to leave with a good letter of recommendation rather than have it fought out in the courts. I know of at least three cases in the last eight years in my home county in Nebraska (not a very big place) where this is what happened. And the teachers jumped to Iowa or South Dakota, and started up sexual contact with students again.
The other thing that makes this hard to track is that in many cases it is a female teacher with a male student. Many women say “Oh they are in love!” and many men snicker and fantasize about being the student. I mean look at the various FR threads! So there are many cases that go unreported and untracked.
I suspect that the abuse/illegal sexual contact with a minor is greater in the school system, but there is no school board, state, or federal agency that will ever do much about it with out a lot of pressure. The culture is one of "protect your own", and for those parents who do file charges the battle is very much uphill.
Can we all agree that any abuse by a teacher, priest, pastor, sunday school teacher, nun, vicar, 3rd year seminary student, babysitter, coach etc, etc, etc is bad and just quite griping about how unfair it is that one group gets more media attention than others about it.
The bottom line is none of us want these things to happen to children but because of sin we have those who are unable to resist the urge to commit these sad and harmful acts. That’s the true tragedy; not how many times the report is about one group or another.
I ask that we all pray for the end of abuse of children by ALL people who are charged to oversee them and lead them.
Blessings in Christ to all who read my post.
PM