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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]That is why we should keep our young children away from the churches. They are operated by a bunch of sex crazed freaks. First they take the parents monetary donations and when that is not enough they take away the sexual innocence of the children.

The moral of this is that you should serously question the motives of people who wish to become religious authority figures and pass on divine wisdom or intercede with God on your behalf. [/quote]

This is what you take away from these discussions?  Perhaps we should go one step further and keep our children away for schools.  I seems as if barely a week goes by that we don't hear about some abuse situation in schools.  No daycares either or babysitters ever because abuse happens there, too.  No sports because there are abusive coaches and this list goes on and on.  What this signals to me is not that religion or religious leaders are inherently evil, or that daycares/babysitters are inherently evil or that coaches are inherently evil.  What this tells me is that there are evil people in this world and we as a society have become so morally bankrupt that this evil is flourishing.  When we no longer have social values or norms and everything is deemed acceptable ("if it feels good do it") we will have a subset of society who will take it to the worst possible limit.
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There is one big difference between a church and, say, a public school.  The public schools do not conspire to hide child molesters.  They don't move them into administrative jobs or send them to another assignment where the kids are older and hope the problem will go away.  Public schools will suspend a teacher or coach, go straight to the police, and let the law take it from there.

I'm a churchgoer, and I don't share the sentiments of the earlier poster, but your slippery slope argument is not that solid.  Churches, and especially churches with a big hierarchy like the Catholic Church, seem to have a particular problem that affects their ability to decisively act on problems when they do occur.

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