“Being celibate has NOTHING to do with raping children!”
Raping children is obviously the opposite of celibacy. However if you are going to challenge that there isn’t a higher population of child sexual abusers in the clergy than the general public, I’ll take you up on it.
That's because the American Education system is what's called a targetted institution: one that paedophiles gravitate towards because it puts them in touch with children.
The same is true for any organisation that works with children. Boy Scouts, you name it, they all have more paedophiles than the general norm. Not because the Boy Scouts are evil, but because that's where the children are.
Tell me: do you believe that celibacy is the cause of the ludicrously high level of paedophilia and child abuse in the American Education system?
You wrote:
“Raping children is obviously the opposite of celibacy.”
NO!!! The opposite of celibacy is marriage. For you to even put religious celibacy and raping of children on the same spectrum makes you look like a nut.
“However if you are going to challenge that there isn’t a higher population of child sexual abusers in the clergy than the general public, I’ll take you up on it.”
And you would lose. There’s probably more sexual abuse in public schools than among Catholic priests.