• Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Do a search for “pedophile pastor”, “pedophile priest” or “pedophile preacher” and you will find page after page after page of sexual crimes against children… To lighten the mood do an image search for golf cheat and count all the american presidents you see.

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      2 months ago

      There are large numbers of pastors, priests, and teachers. Even if we expect pedophilia to be no more common in these professions than others, due to their proximity to children such crimes will be common. So I don’t think the takeaway from this kind of google search should be that such professions are especially pedophilic.

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        2 months ago

        It’s not the profession that’s the problem, but there is evidence that problem people gravitate to such professions where they have that position of power.

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          2 months ago

          I agree, but I don’t think a google search for “teacher pedophile” should change your opinion one way or the other.

  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtf
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    2 months ago

    In the south we have an idiom “Birds of a feather flock together”, which means people tend to associate with others of similar morals, ethics, beliefs. So, needless to say, I’m hardly surprised. Trump associate and pastor? There was almost no chance this filth was anything BUT a pedophile.

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      2 months ago

      In the north we have a saying “don’t leave your kids alone with a pastor”. It isn’t catchy, but it’s good advice nonetheless

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    2 months ago

    Name an industry that if they had this many child sexual predators, wouldn’t be immediately shut down and banned from operating ever again.

    Seriously. Can you imagine if, say, NASA had the same ratio of child sexual predators as Christian churches do? Or Applebee’s? Or Jiffy Lube? They’d all have to close up shop. Hell, there’s a daycare in my town that was in business for 30 years, and a teacher got busted for diddling a kid. That place was done for THAT WEEK. Doors closed, never opened again. Probably tens of thousands of kids came through that place just fine, but all it took was ONE, and they were kaput.

    These fucking churches need to be shut the fuck down. Those black metal guys in the 90s had the right idea.

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      2 months ago

      80% of church goers believe that shit. The other 20% are there because of all the easy pickings.

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        2 months ago

        Bad people are still bad in church, despite baseless apologist screeching about their fantasy of skydad making morals objective.