Kallima wrote:In my opinion,they should indeed be fired, go to prison, and a lot worse. And so should people who aided them by covering it up.
A church that covers that up is at fault by their own rules. The rules of Christianity as taught by Jesus in the New Testament I think clearly state that doing harm to children is not acceptable. Any church that allows harm to children is not following those rules. The guild master should throw this church out of the guild.
This raises the question of how many of the churches and people who describe themselves as Christian would be accepted as that by Jesus.
But how many non-religious people have abused children? Again, it's pointing the finger at religion. When it does happen and a religious person is involved, it makes headline news. How many cases of non-religious child abuse go unnoticed?
Linking this with the other thread about the existence of God, if non-believers (like Xest) say that the evidence of the Laws of Physics prove that God doesn't exist, and let's suppose that's true, then all the evil in the world is directly attributable to evolution. So, if you claim that religion is to blame, then you must believe in God, otherwise you must believe that it's evolution (and consequently non-believers) that's to blame.
