Comment on Praise Be

aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• how_we_burned@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Christian fundamentalists includes

  • catholice church ran an industrial scale child raping, torture and incitement to suicide (by the church leadership, to avoid paying compensation) of their victims even after the raping priest has been imprisoned.

  suicides(en.wikipedia.org/…/Catholic_Church_sex_abuse_case…

  “Church officials followed a “playbook for concealing the truth”, minimizing the abuse by using words like “inappropriate contact” instead of “rape”.”

  And that’s with a head buried in the sand approach that US authorities take with religion ie it has to be so blatant and undeniable before they’ll investigate.

  However from Ireland to Australia in those two countries alone the Catholics abused tens of thousands of children. There are as many or more cases in the US and yet its clear the authorities are happy to pretend otherwise.

  Worse the abuse and active protection and cover up went to the Cardinals themselves, both Cardinal Pell and Clancy were rapists and rape protectors.

  Southern Baptist Churches

  SBC’s executive committee, detailing that SBC leaders had stonewalled and disparaged clergy sex abuse survivors for nearly two decades. It also listed the named cases that involved the admission, confession, guilty plea, conviction, judgement, sentencing and registered sex offenders. It did not include cases that did not relate to sexual abuse nor cases that ended in acquittal. The report listed more than 700 entries within the parameters

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Sexual_abuse_cases_in_Southern…

  • extensive sexual abuse in Hasidic and Haredi jewisg cults

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Sexual_abuse_cases_in_Brooklyn…

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_(novel)

  The leadership of religiious organisation are devoid of the moral and ethical leadership their organisations claim is a God given.

  It is little surprise they are happily refusing to mount any meaningful protests against the Trump regime.

  Shit the the closest I’ve seen religious organizations protests the Trump regime was the grassroots spontaneous protest of various clergy in the Minneapolis to stop airlines from running ice deporting/transfer flights.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I honestly believe that the Catholic Church has been operating an intergenerational homosexual trafficking ring for centuries. Most, perhaps all, of the molesting priests were probably molested by priests themselves when they were very young, and like many abuse victims, grew up to be abusers themselves, using the same vehicle as their abusers - the Catholic Church itself.

    That’s why the Church has always excused it and covered it up: it’s literally a long-standing tradition, and a major recruiting strategy. You wouldn’t have nearly as many priests if your only draw was celibacy.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is at least an area where I’ve seen improvement in many denominations. The Episcopal Church in particular has gotten pretty hard-nosed about its sex abuse training. I was volunteering for a food drive and they made me take a 6-hour course along with any other volunteers who hadn’t been through it because children may be present and they have instituted strict rules.

    The training had video confessions of people who had used church activities as a way to become “trusted” sonthey could abuse children. They talked about what they did and how they used their positions of trust to grrom their victims (e.g. “accidentally” touching kids while playing to gauge their reactions).

    They then make crystal clear that the rules they have are not optional, or meant as an attack on the adults either. An adult roughousing with kids or talking with a distressed kid alone is most-likely not a rapist. We all understand that, so when someone says “hey - make sure to leave the blinds open with talking to Kelley” or “Steve - we can’t play flag football with the kids” it isn’t an accusation. It’s a reminder that we’re there for the kids and we all follow the rules so that if someone evil does show up they can’t engage in probing through “harmless fun”. If anyone can’t respect those rules they’re not allowed to participate.

    The one exception we had for the “no touching” rule when I worked for a Methodist church was for a specific teenager who was usually very sweet but had developmental issues that would occasionally lead to extreme behavior, including occasional violent outbursts. For him we had a few specific adults that had special training (and waivers) that were allowed to restrain him. We also made one of his parents accompany any activity he was involved with. I only had to physically intervene one time when we were bowling and he took a ball into the parking lot to attack cars.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the Mormons!

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And Catholics.

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  • Blubber28@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Like they said, child rapist enablers

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Little of column A, little of column B…

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• flamingleg@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  don’t forget team blue

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  • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    the purple party

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