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Conclusion: Carnality and Religion are inextricably entwined in the Genetic Code of the Human Species. Watch the people with the prayerbooks like hawks is the lesson. A number of them are always going to be watching our children in the same way.

Abuse of the power of religion is endemic within the institutions of every religion. What is evolving now is the power of the laity to monitor their institutions more assiduously and to find and correct offenders. This is not easy.

Innocent children must be made aware of those in their lives who are not innocent. Right now it is the turn of the Romans to be excoriated for the violations within their church, and rightly so. However, it is sheer hypocrisy for members of other sects to imagine that somehow their churches are immune or innocent of these horrible abuses. All of this has gone on for centuries. This has always been known in confidence. Now, it has reached the public.
The "Public" is human, too. So the effects of the light shined upon the centuries of abuse will be good. Those good effects will hopefully outweigh those that inevitably will not be so good.