In yet another example of ‘unholy’ behavior by the supposed guardians of holiness, churches are buying insurance policies to pay off people who have been sexually abused by the clergy.
Although nobody is claiming that religion is the one and only cause of sexual abuse in the church, this shows that religion does not work. Religion does not help us lead a moral life, religion does not help priests keep their hands to themselves, religion does not make people less likely to commit crimes, religion does not ensure that people would behave, and the list goes on. Abstinence and celibacy simply do not work, even when proclaimed to be holy in the name of religion. They do not work even when people are threatened with hellfire because going against basic biology does not work.
People who still think that sexual abuse is not a problem among supposedly ‘celibate’ clergy need to start confronting reality before more innocent people are scarred for life because religious institutions are not willing to face the obvious fact that religion does not work.
Fear and Anti-Male Discrimination in the Classroom
Thursday, February 26th, 2009When a segment of society has been unjustifiable tarred, it often takes dedicated activism to raise people’s consciousness to the injustice and perniciousness of such discrimination. My consciousness was recently raised by blogger Justin Trottier with regard to a branch of discrimination that does not seem to receive much public acknowledgement: discrimination against men. (more…)
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