Am I the only one that thinks the churches coddle pedophiles?

Am I the only one that thinks the churches coddle pedophiles?

- No, everyone does, but no one will do anything about it.

It's like the Jimmy Saville case in the UK. He was a TV celebrity who made a ton of money for charities, hosted a famous show where he arranged for young kids to have their dreams come true by meeting their heroes, etc...and turned out to have been a seriously dirty old man as well. At first nobody believed it, but more and more people came forward and now it's turned into a full scale police investigation which to the best of my knowledge is still going and through which several high profile arrests and investigations have been made.

I think that initially the main fear was the impact if would have on the showbiz world in which he was involved - he met the Queen in person more than a few times - and that it would tarnish the image of the BBC (which is daft: I would bet that at least half the board of directors went to public schools - that's in the UK sense of "private, paid, as opposed to state" schools - and were therefore pretty much sodomites by default; look up the "biscuit game" if you don't believe me).

Anyway. The church is the same: the cognitive dissonance that arises when a fornicating father is caught out followed by a calculated PR attempt to make it look less heinous than it really was.

Then again, it doesn't actually say "thou shalt not rape little boys" in the decalogue anywhere, so I guess they can probably still count on getting into heaven when they are beaten to death by an outraged group of vigilantes.

I think the Mormons do, since they believe that God had sex with mary when the Holy Ghost came over her. Thsi shows that they allow father's having sex with their daughters. Thsi also is a belief for the FLDS as well.

As for my non-denom church, everyone gets a background check, men are not allowed to change diapers and cannot be left alone with a chidren in a room.

ya, that would be coddling pedophilia. If he's already up on 29 charges. They should indeed wait until he is at least acquitted to hire him.

Yes. The churches coddle criminals, not just pedophiles. They pass diddlers and thieves around so they are not found out, and have fresh hunting grounds.

The church and the Mafia are patterned on each other.

What more needs to be said of them then?

They refuse to believe that a Christian would do any such thing. That happened in a Christian summer camp I know of - pedophiles had free access to children for years because the director refused to believe that a Christian would ever do such a thing.

Nope, I think that too. And the ones who DON"T are the rare ones.

The darn kids shouldn't be so tempting, is the accepted response to Christian on kid sex. Because Christians do not have to accept responsibility for any wrong, that's what Jesus was for.

No you're not the only one, the world is full of cretins who jump to conclusions and tar everyone with the same brush.

You really think your one example is representative of all the churches out there? I know the Catholic Church has issues of priests molesting children, but even that is only a handful of all the priests, and not representative of each priest ordained. And one Baptist church hiring someone accused of sexual abuse does not mean all churches does.

Nice long list of examples.