Why Don't Religious Leaders Bring in Law Enforcement for Clergy Child Abusers


The recent resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbary over a clergy who savagely beat children is a growing scandal. He has now taken responsibility for not taking action. From comments in the link is the impression many others in the denomination's bureaucracy knew more about the abuse but either endorsed it or ignored it. 

If one part of the brain is filled with beliefs in life after death or hate of gays and trans does that make the other part, which should have empathy with children being beaten, cease to function? There should be a better explanation but no one has come up with any.

One of the children. now an adult, said the abuser would beat him so hard with a paddle the abuser would be gasping for breath. After a short rest he would restart the beating. I suppose, like the sexual abusers, children heard this was all to make them better please God.

We all know there is child abuse in many kinds of organizations. What sets religion apart is justification by God. Playing with peoples' is what religion does. Some people are made happier when religion does this, some people are destroyed.

Some Christians pray and pine for a world-wide "revival." Others of us pine for a world that leaves behind the false ideas and wishful thinking. The world will never be a perfect place but it seems it would be better by burying its imaginary beings. Are we worse off because the Greek Gods are no long around? So far as I know no one cares. If we left God behind along with the clergy who abuse children we also would never miss him and some, like children, would be safer.


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