Posted on 08/18/2018 9:39:49 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Sexual misconduct is as old as sin, but the avalanche of sexual misconduct that has come to light in recent weeks is almost too much to bear. These grievous revelations of sin have occurred in churches, in denominational ministries, and even in our seminaries.
We thought this was a Roman Catholic problem. The unbiblical requirement of priestly celibacy and the organized conspiracy of silence within the hierarchy helped to explain the cesspool of child sex abuse that has robbed the Roman Catholic Church of so much of its moral authority. When people said that Evangelicals had a similar crisis coming, it didn’t seem plausible — even to me. I have been president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for twenty-five years. I did not see this coming.
I was wrong. The judgment of God has come.
Judgment has now come to the house of the Southern Baptist Convention. The terrible swift sword of public humiliation has come with a vengeance. There can be no doubt that this story is not over.
We cannot blame a requirement of priestly celibacy. We cannot even point to an organized conspiracy of silence within the denominational hierarchy. No, our humiliation comes as a result of an unorganized conspiracy of silence. Sadly, the unorganized nature of our problem may make recovery and correction even more difficult and the silence even more dangerous.
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Thak-you for having this article posted again.
It is a huge, worldwide, systemic Roman Catholic problem.
The vatican itself is infested with sexual perversion that the pope allows to work there.
**Judgment has now come to the house of the Southern Baptist Convention. **
Not just a Catholic problem. What do you know?????!!!!!
This is a systemic problem in religion, not just the Catholics, wherever there is a possibility for abuse someone will take advantage of it. Or are you so simple you don’t believe there are abuses anywhere else?
There is some serious dirty crap in the Baptist Church as well. It’s not just Catholic.
I was raised Baptist, I know better than to take just one of them fishing.
Literally just the other day, I saw this idea expressed on another forum (which is generally friendly to the Southern Baptists). This view has yet to be openly questioned there.
I did not see this coming.
Here's mote in your eye!
This is a good article and must reading for those who identify with Protestant beliefs.
There’s a tendency to talk about the sexual sins in the Catholic area too much, bad as they are.
But sexual sin is everywhere for better or worse, it was a Southern Baptist who once told “Playboy”:
“In my heart I have lusted after women”.
When Jimmy Carter passes away his policies will not be something I remember with positive feelings, but ironically it will be those words that I will feel positive about because they speak to my condition and experience.
It is way past time for all those religious whatever their faith to face the truth about sex in their lives and how their sexual lives have impacted their church lives, whatever that truth is no matter how dirty that truth is.
I can’t do that for others, but I can do it for myself.
First, I note the logical fallacy of attacking the messenger. No worries, but it has no persuasive power as an argument.
Second, you are making a category mistake in logic... we are not talking about incidents of abuse, which are part of the human condition
We are discussin The Roman Catholic institutionalized machinery and leadership that covered it up, transferred the perps to fresh pastures, shielded them from criminal prosecution, refused to remove them from positions within the institution, moved assets to prevent victims from recovering damages, etc.
The Roman Catholic systemic abuse of children and its evil coverup are unparalleled in any other centralized institution.
The scope is worldwide and includes not just the abusers, but the leaders and hierarchy that cared more about the reputation of the institution than the children.
That FRomans here attempt to minimize this as isolated or equal to others have their eyes closed - willfully.
The report that happened in PA - in only 6 dioceses, is just one state, with only 1,000 victims willing to come forward and detail the satanic abuse they faced. If you have not read what priests did to children - raping, etc. - you should.
This process will now unfold in additional states.
Australia is now unfolding the abuse.
Many, many, many other countries will as well.
This is a Trillion dollar judgement coming down the pike and well deserved... not because there was abuse, but because they enabled and perpetuated and hid the abuse.
The leadership should face jail time.
Yes there is and I condemn it.
It is not just the Catholic church, but there is no comparison to what Rome has done to any other institution.
Nobody with even the tiniest shred of honesty ever said it was exclusive to some specific group.
But, without exception, the people who have insisted that this group or that group cannot be pedophiles are actively working hard to perpetuate the rape of children.
This is why people who love children brook no safe harbours for pedophiles.
Not the churches.
Not the schools.
Not law enforcement.
Not doctors.
Not psychologists.
No even little old ladies or teenage siblings.
Nobody gets held as incapable to rape a child.
I agree that the Catholic Church has its problems, but the list from PA went back 70 years.
Have you read Bill Donohue’s column about this?
Once again it is not just a Catholic issue but as this posted has shown, it is across the in other churches as well.
Truth cannot be denied .
Correction: across the board.
This is a systemic problem in religion, not just the Catholics, wherever there is a possibility for abuse someone will take advantage of it. Or are you so simple you don’t believe there are abuses anywhere else?
Not a religious problem. Or strictly a religions program. Consider:
Jimmy Saville
Jeffry Epstein
England's ongoing problem with pedophile rape gangs.
I've seen rumors of pedophile networks in high places for decades.
"Malakoi are in kings' houses."
Because of the size of the Catholic church (1.6 BILLION) of course we are going to have more problems! To compare us to a typical protestant church whose membership is probably a thousand or less is ridiculous. People who say allowing priests to marry will solve the homosexual pedophile problem. Wrong: just look at the Southern Baptist Convention and the Willow Creek mega church scandals.
I do blame this latest pope for not aggressively working to root out all homosexual pedophile priests. Aparently braying about global warming, open borders, and the evils of capitalism are far more important to this pope. The fish rots at the head. I hate this pope.
thank you for posting that- abuse in most of the protestant religions do not even begin to compare to what the catholic church (and likely other religious denominations that are welcoming homosexual predators into their parishes without requiring them to repent and turn from their sin/abomination)) has engaged in. Homosexual predators are not a major part of the protestant religion. The Catholic church has protected homosexual predators for a long while now- so much so that homosexual predators seek out the church knowing they will be protected. There simply is no vast worldwide network of homosexual predators infesting the protestant religion- while there are individual cases no doubt- it doesn’t even compare to what has gone on in the catholic religion-
There are also other religions that are openly embracing the homosexual culture- and we will find soon that massive abuses have been going on in those denominations as well- but most protestant denominations do not embrace and protect homosexual predators.
Sexual criminals can make their way into any religious organization- even protestant religions- No church is immune to this problem- however- as pointed out by you and others already- it’s not a systemic issue that infests the organization like it does in some religions.
There has never been another systematic coverup of this magnitude, in this many countries, by the hierarchy of an institution.
It is pure evil.
Deny it as you will FRiend.
Predators go where there is easy prey.
Who sees people at their most vulnerable times, more than clerics?
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