Were Christians proud of John Mark Carr on TV yesterday? His mother was an Christian evangelist.?

Question

How can Christianity be good if it produces so many pedophiles, etc.? This month, in addtion to Carr, we had Rep. Foley, a Catholic who went to church every Sunday. The Amish killer went to church every Sunday also. What good do these religious teachings do?

Answer 1

What religion too often produces is incomprehensible paradoxes the religious person can't resolve, leading to a type of blind faith that sometimes skirts upon madness. And religions spoonfeed their victims in guilt not only for any wrongdoing that's done but also for the thoughts and natural desires and feelings. Fear of "God", uncertainty about and fear of damnation can push a delicately balanced mind over the edge.

Answer 2

You are blaming the teachings when it is the people. I do agree to a point about what you say, but even atheism produces evil by this idea. Whatever you believe, discipline is necessary (even in atheism) to follow a moral code. John Mark Karr, Ted Bundy, Jerry Falwell, Mark Foley are the exception and not the rule. But by the same token, those who commit evil intentionally even among atheists are the exception and not the rule.

Learn about all christianity, and for that matter Islam, Judaism, and any other religion out there that you can. Learn about atheism also (and how they believe things work), that way you can be sure you have found the right choice by using logic and all the facts. And by doing this also, you can better understand others who don't believe as you do.

Answer 3

NO

Just because on claims to subscribe to a concept does not mean he always does.

Good men can do bad things and their own hearts are broken by their failure, while Evil men do good things and wear the shroud of righteousness to enable simply them to continue their evil.

Your question is a good question to consider since there have been so many public cases of pedophilia in the news as of late. I was abused as a child and am overwhelmed with grief for the kids.But it is not religion that motivates these people to molest, it is other issues that are psychological and/or evil that produce their pedophilia. I doubt it was caused by their faith, though an acitve faith may have prevented, quelled or lessened their actions if they actually had utilized what faith has to offer. The fact that it often happens in a religous setting is simply the result of opportunity. Much more abuse happens in our schools and churches because that is where the kids are available and gather.


I do not think you are trying to be biasied/anti religous in your question. I think it is legitamate to ask "What good do these religious teachings do?" when there are many who claim to follow them but then do such horrible things. But I do think your question is flawed in that just because someone claims/has an associaton with something does not mean that it is always what is producing the issue.

For example following the logic of your question you could just as easily say:
-How can the american Education system be good if it produces so many pedophiles, etc
-How can Dads be good if they produce so many pedophiles, etc
-How can families be good if it produces so many pedophiles, etc
- How can (whites, blacks, hispanics) be good if...

In response to your final question "What good do these religious teachings do?" Christianity recognizes that all people do wrong and harm themselves or others in some way. It calls us all to become more like God who is not evil in any way. It calls us to:
- place others before ourselves and
-in response to his offer to us of forgivness and the use of his power to seek to overcome our selfishness and leave evil behind.
- offer the same mercy and forgivness he offers us to those who seek it with a pentitant heart

If people truly followed this call perfectly then there would never be pedophilia, crime, violence, or even hate. However no one completley ever meets the call of God and there are many who for what ever reason claim faith but act completely out of synch with what they claim.

Carr, Foley and others like them, may in some way have an association with a faith but yet have chosen to be continue their evil and/or due to mental illness and such, find themselves trapped in these terrible and inexcusable behaviours.

Faith is like a medicine it only works if you take it as prescribed. It does little good for you to simply tell others you have it.

Answer 4

Its not the religion....its the individual.
You mention the Amish, but failed to see how their Christian faith is about forgiveness.
That really isn't for you to judge Carr's mother.
There is probably pedophiles in every religion.
But the goodness of people in all religions is the hope of humanity.

Answer 5

All humans, believers or not are born with sin nature.

Weakness towards human desires and temptations rest within all of us.

We cannot control our weaknessess and temptations on our own and must "lean on" the one who can help us control these weaknessess.

Not all humans have the same weaknessess, but we all have them.

Going to church every Sunday or everyday for that matter does not make one a believer.

We cannot see the hearts of the people that you mentioned, so we cannot determine if they accepted God and live for him instead of themselves. It sure looks from the outside that they have rejected God in favor of their own self will and allow their desires to control them instead of controlling their desires.

It is not about what someone says they are, its about what they are inside their hearts.

This is what Christianity teaches. We are all depraved beings, and without allowing God to be in control, we will follow our own desires and thoughts and they will be what we worship, instead of God.

We as humans can teach the truth, but only the listener can accept the truth. So, were these people taught? Did they listen and believe? We do not know.

Answer 6

His dad was also a Dubya Dubya II vet as well. I think the guy needs serious psych evaluations. I would pray for him, but he can help himself....That and the fact that I don't believe in god. Prayer is just a form of self worship. Run him in the Republican party in place of Foley.

Answer 7

That relies upon, do you have demons? LOL . Sorry i could no longer withstand. confident! that could desire to be sufficient and quite extra many it is yet you do get some who do no longer take no for an answer. They see me (i'm needless to say Jewish) and that they yell issues at me approximately how i will hell and so on. it is extremely stressful. I comprehend it is a ingredient of Christianity and so i do no longer strategies them coming and attempting to evangelize to me yet whilst they do no longer take no for an answer, i'm getting aggravated and in the event that they simply refuse to pass away, i will get rude. i think of it may many times border on harrassment. My opinion is the 1st time they attempt they are attempting to "help me" yet once I say i do no longer % "help", they slip into the class of harrassment.

Answer 8

Do you not think there are people just like them in every religion?You hear mor about the christian and American ones because we publicise their vile acts in order forpeople to see it is wrong. Just like muslims say the terrorists are not true muslims, those people are not true christians

Answer 9

No, I am not proud,You are bacically stating Christianity breeds evil
it does not.These sick creeps will have to face judgment.There
is evil all over the world and there is compassion and love also, Every culture, every religion.Please view these people as what they are, sick, twisted, perverted, evil,and not at all christian.

Answer 10

Just because he was that way doesn't not mean all Christians are, the same as with white people, some are good some are bad, or Spanish or black or Oriental..see where I'm going with this?