As someone raised (and confirmed) Catholic, only 380 abusers covered up seems almost small-scale to me compared to what the Catholic Church pulled off for decades. Still, it is devastating cruel behavior, made all the worse but how loudly the perpetrators proclaimed themselves better than the average Christian, and certainly light years …
As someone raised (and confirmed) Catholic, only 380 abusers covered up seems almost small-scale to me compared to what the Catholic Church pulled off for decades. Still, it is devastating cruel behavior, made all the worse but how loudly the perpetrators proclaimed themselves better than the average Christian, and certainly light years better than those dirty unbelievers.
Behavior like this is why church attendance keeps dropping.
It also further convinces me that every "grooming" accusation by the all publicly religious Christians like DeSantis are just more and more projection.
The difference is that each Baptist church is an independent organization responsible for hiring their personnel. The SBC is a membership organization of affiliated independent churches. Where as the Catholics, Methodists and others are top down organizations where the local church has no say in who the pastor/priest will be. That makes it harder for the rot that may be in the National organization to spread to local ones, Also since each church is an independent organization the investigation did not go past the national organization. A very small group.
As someone raised (and confirmed) Catholic, only 380 abusers covered up seems almost small-scale to me compared to what the Catholic Church pulled off for decades. Still, it is devastating cruel behavior, made all the worse but how loudly the perpetrators proclaimed themselves better than the average Christian, and certainly light years better than those dirty unbelievers.
Behavior like this is why church attendance keeps dropping.
It also further convinces me that every "grooming" accusation by the all publicly religious Christians like DeSantis are just more and more projection.
The difference is that each Baptist church is an independent organization responsible for hiring their personnel. The SBC is a membership organization of affiliated independent churches. Where as the Catholics, Methodists and others are top down organizations where the local church has no say in who the pastor/priest will be. That makes it harder for the rot that may be in the National organization to spread to local ones, Also since each church is an independent organization the investigation did not go past the national organization. A very small group.