Because a priest is quite literally a «father figure,» abuse by a priest is likely to cause more harm to
a child than abuse by any other individual outside the family.
Not exact matches
A report by the New York - based NGO China Labor Watch says the factories making devices and components for Samsung are guilty of a range of
abuses: employees working more
than 100 hours of overtime in a month;
children under 16 working in factories; failure to provide safety clothing where appropriate.
There are perhaps no more vulnerable
children than those who have been emotionally or physically
abused.
the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind
than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be
abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman,
children, and babies.
If you want to really search for the truth; you will find that the percentage of priests that
abuse children is smaller
than you'd think (try less
than 1 % worldwide; google it and check multiple sources).
The cardinal accepted that
abusing priests were routinely moved from parish to parish rather
than being defrocked, and the word of clergy was often taken as more trustworthy
than children claiming they were
abused.
Cruelty against
children and worse
than death as many victims suffer from the mental illness caused by the
abuse.
The people of the Catholic Church are about so, so, so much more
than the
child abuse scandal or the celibacy of priests.
Given that the vatican is populated by mentally ill delusional liars, I can think of many worse things, such as the
abuse of innocent
children and protecting their abusers,
than its destruction.
Statistics have for decades shown that
children are far, far, far, far more likely to be
abused by a family member or by a school authority figure
than they are by a member of the clergy of any religion.
If we are just matter, then murd er or rap e or
child abuse shouldn't make any more difference
than tossing a rock into the ocean.
So, until you are willing to condemn the
child's family members, his or her teachers, and his or her sports coaches, get off the soapbox and stop pretending that clergy members are somehow more likely
than average to
abuse kids.
Only <
than 1 percent of priests have ever
abused a
child, far less on a percentage basis
than coaches, teachers, and ministers of other faiths.
Fatherless
children have rates of incarceration, criminal activity, possession of firearms, poverty, drug and alcohol
abuse, teen pregnancy, incompletion of school, and overall parental neglect and maltreatment alarmingly higher
than their two - parent counterparts.
The husband is on trial for historic
child abuse and I am looking back and wondering if we should have realised that there was more
than just emotional manipulation going on.
A god who chooses people for eternal literal fire (Romans 9) and causing / allowing evil (rape, torture,
child abuse, etc) means he looks more like Molech
than the God of love revealed in Jesus.
An investigation that began after the crisis over sexual
abuse of
children in the Boston Archdiocese fully emerged in 2002 has pored over records dating back more
than 60 years, with subsequent decisions on who to name based on the nature of the accusations and other factors, according to O'Malley.
In many and various ways, Francis is worse on
child sex
abuse than Benedict, his «rigid» predecessor.
While Upbring has evolved over more
than 135 years of service, our organization remains firmly focused on delivering innovative programs and services that address the root causes of
child abuse and neglect.
Abusing children is almost worse
than murder as they live suffering as a victim.
That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and
children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more
than eternal torture, pain, violence, and
abuse.
What's worse
than the world seeing Christians disagree with one another is the world seeing Christians remain silent and supportive when their own are accused of multiple counts of
child abuse and appeal to the first amendment to try and avoid investigation.
I have been taught this less by my feminist professional colleagues
than by the students who have attended my classes on passes from hospitals or after therapy sessions, in which they are being treated for wounds inflicted by men (and sometimes women) who
abused them as
children or as adults.
Believing that the world is what it looks like is crazy, believing that there is an invisible man who runs every last corner of the universe but has nothing better to do
than be your personal buddy while war and cancer and torture and
child abuse go on and on and on, that's sane?
This is little more
than another form of
child abuse.
He just sounds like a cruel dictator, more concerned with the teaching
than the
child he used and
abused for the lesson.
I don't know about you, but I think it's more humane to terminate a cluster of cells that lacks the ability to feel pain
than it is to insist that a
child be born into a situation where it is unwanted, unloved, unprotected and may end up
abused or dead.
Beck fails to see that our irrationality about
child sex
abuse is more encompassing
than left and right.
(CNN)- Thousands and thousands of
children suffered from sexual
abuse in the Dutch Roman Catholic Church over more
than six decades, and about 800 «possible perpetrators» have been identified, an independent Commission of Inquiry said Friday.
I don't want it to come across that I am advocating passively praying that
child molesters (for instance) would get a personal encounter with God... I also take very seriously the responsibility to defend the
abused... I have received more «christian» flak for reporting
abuse than I get from any source for praying for my abusers.
that's very different
than someone who says: «no, racism /
child abuse / pedophilia is * always * evil.
According to a Thai NGO working on
children's rights, some 40,000 to 50,000 Burmese girls have been sent to Thailand and even more brutally
abused than Thai girls at the bottom of the prostitution industry.
Priests in Milwaukee were paid to leave the church rather
than face embarrassing excommunication for
child abuse.
This authority structure is typically described as a series of «coverings» or «protections» but unfortunately, the effect is often the opposite, as
abused women and
children find they have no recourse or power, as every decision in their lives must be made by a series of men, many of whom are more invested in protecting the reputation of the ministry
than the people in it.
MORMONS WO N'T TELL YOU that the state of Utah, which is predominately Mormon, has a higher
than the national average of wife - beating,
child abuse, and teenage suicide.
Fathers
abuse their
children more
than priests in society today.
First, in reporting widespread
child abuse in Brooklyn's community of Orthodox Jews, there was not the «selective outrage» which animates the paper against criminous Catholic clerics, whose numbers are in fact proportionally much smaller
than other religious and professional groups.
I think things are simpler
than they appear — pope - a-dope wants to allow his priests to use condoms so that when they
abuse innocent
children, they are protected and guilty of one less sin.
The mother and father are depressed, the bullying continues into the primary school for the
child, so much so that their daughter is withdrawn and rather
than look further the school suspected
child abuse, in part because the history of it on the estate.
The rate of
child abuses in society is 7 % and there is no reason to believe that atheists are less likely to offend
than others.
We need civil and criminal prosecussions into this illegal eveil organization that has been more
than coincidentially involved in Reico acitivity if yu ask me on
child abuse.
Personally, I don't put these people in any lower esteem
than the average religious
child abusing brain - washer.
You twits have more
than enough issues to fix like
child abuse.
But you only show your hatred of Catholicism rather
than concern for
child abuse with your post.
And indeed, the public response to the Sovereign Grace Ministries
child abuse scandal revealed that far too many Christian leaders seem more concerned with protecting the reputations of their denominations, ministries, and pastors
than with protecting victims of
abuse.
The Catholic sex -
abuse stories emerging every day suggest that Catholics have a much bigger problem with
child molestation
than other denominations and the general population.
«Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, unwittingly reveals what draws the new atheists towards the Catholic -
abuse story:... «Odious as the physical
abuse of
children by priests undoubtedly is, I suspect that it may do them less lasting damage
than the mental
abuse of bringing them up Catholic in the first place», [http://richarddawkins.net/articles/118?page=2].
Priests may... appear more likely to molest
children because cases of
abuse come to light in huge waves... Allen suggests a final reason we hear so much more about Catholic
abuse than transgressions in other religions: [the Church's] sheer size... «When you consider the per capita data,» says Allen, «I don't think they have a larger incidence
than other faiths.»
What's interesting is that though both these reports by independent and secular organisations (NSPCC and JJC) either state or imply that
child sex
abuse is part of a problem in society as a whole and not a particular problem for the Catholic Church, in other words that Catholic priests are no more likely than anyone else to be involved in it, Dr Pravin Thevathasan, the author of the third document on this subject published around the same time, «The Catholic Church & the Sex Abuse Crisis», published by the CTS, is not inclined to deploy this fact to get the Church off the
abuse is part of a problem in society as a whole and not a particular problem for the Catholic Church, in other words that Catholic priests are no more likely
than anyone else to be involved in it, Dr Pravin Thevathasan, the author of the third document on this subject published around the same time, «The Catholic Church & the Sex
Abuse Crisis», published by the CTS, is not inclined to deploy this fact to get the Church off the
Abuse Crisis», published by the CTS, is not inclined to deploy this fact to get the Church off the hook.
He said: «A decade on from the passing of the controversial anti-smacking law in New Zealand, the law has maintained its very high level of opposition, but most significantly the law has had a «chilling» effect on parenting, and rather
than tackling rotten parents who are
abusing their
children, it has targeted well - functioning parents».