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Uh, the part about the coloring books costing three billion dollars?

Do the math. By 2008, the Catholic Church had paid out three billion dollars to settle priest abuse cases with accusers. The coloring books were produced in 2007, in the words of one article, to alert children to the danger of being sexually assaulted by a priest.

So if the coloring books are supposed to work, what did it cost the Church to not produce abuse-avoidance coloring books until 2007? Answer: three billion dollars.

"I hear kids can get a free copy of "Being Friends, Being Safe" at their local parish, but the coloring book cost the Catholic Church over three billion dollars to produce!"
-- Alex Murphy, Post #94 in this thread.

Oh, and I forgot these:

THIS IS SATIRE. HUMOR.

So, this is your idea of sticking to theology?

>> So if the coloring books are supposed to work, what did it cost the Church to not produce abuse-avoidance coloring books until 2007? Answer: three billion dollars. >>

Call it satire (now) if you want. You wrote something which wasn’t true. And for the record, what I wrote was, “tell me you’re joking.”

But, as for the satire: what on Earth did the sex abuse scandals have to do with the issue at hand?

Shall we go see what’s going on with the lovely Baptists this week?

Citrus Heights pastor ordered to stand trial on molestation charges, TMCNews, 2/4/11 (Tommy Gene Daniels)
Rape trial of Bayside pastor on in March, YourNabe.com (NY), 1/28/11)(Phillip Joubert)
Youth minister arrested, Central Kentucky News-Journal, 1/27/11 (Drew A. Underwood)
Pierce’s family attends parole hearing for Benton sex offender, Benton Courier, 1/26/11 (David Pierce)
Ex-youth minister pleads guilty to sex abuse, LEX18 News (Lexington, KY), 1/25/11 (Jacob Allen Conder)
Ex-local pastor faces voyeurism charges in Texas, Bradenton Herald, 1/19/11 (Matthew Christopher Porter)

Five arrests for sexual abuse in one week. (Hey, progress! That’s down from seven the last time I checked around New Years.) Times 50 weeks in a year... that’s a rate of 250 per year. Now, the Catholic church is four times bigger than the Baptists, so that’d be like 1,000 Catholic abuse cases in one year.

So, what’s the difference between Baptists and Catholics on sexual abuse cases?

1. There’s a much higher rate of abuse among the Baptists.
2. The Catholics’ sexual abuse cases were mostly stopped by 1990, years before the media even caught whiff of a story. The Baptists are still raping away.
3. There’s no big money in the Baptists because the SBC disavows responsibilty.
4. To keep the claim of no responsibility, the Baptists refuse to do the simplest things to prevent sexual abuse, like withdrawing pastors’ credentials. They even refused to maintain a database of allegations they were offered.