TO TQC: I read your post but your claims that the scandals are SIX TIMES greater on the Catholic side seems dubious at best. You have a lot of assumptions in your calculations.
TO COLEUS: How is it that Catholics or Christians in general profit from your continual, ill concieved attempts to prove Proddy clergy are naughtier than Catholic?
In all honesty I think both of you need to grow up a bit. The “he started it” defense hardly seems mature or productive. Have either of you stepped back and contemplated how this stuff looks to the casual browser/lurker at FR? Seeing post after post of “Priest molests boy”, “Pastor molests girl”, “Reverend molests sheep”, “Vicar molests self”?
Of course I use a lot of assumptions in my calculations - but they are reasonable assumptions to make: similar clergy per church ratio, etc. Nobody making the claim I refuted has yet provided the actual numbers they seem to be citing, so that the calculations can be refined. Still, if they are correct, then the Catholic clergy really is a lot naughtier than everyone else's.
In all honesty I think both of you need to grow up a bit. The “he started it” defense hardly seems mature or productive. Have either of you stepped back and contemplated how this stuff looks to the casual browser/lurker at FR? Seeing post after post of “Priest molests boy”, “Pastor molests girl”, “Reverend molests sheep”, “Vicar molests self”?
Hint - the reason I post the stories is to "encourage" the Catholics to refrain from doing so. Granted, it results in a flurry of sad stories all at once, but it's like when you have to induce a drunk to throw up so that he doesn't die of alcohol poisoning - unpleasant at the time, but hopefully will get rid of something that is worse for him later on.
However, I will also say this: anybody, active poster or resident lurker, whose opinion about a religion is based on the actions of a few naughty clergymen, probably needs to start eating some mental Wheaties.