I'm just curious about something, given Mark Foley's recent allegation, which is apparently true. Because over the years we have heard many many stories of sexual abuse allegations at the hands of Catholic priests. So I'm just wondering about other religions and other allegations. And are there any allegations from victims of other than the Catholic priests?
2006-10-21 08:57:03 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jewish rabbis do it about as frequently as Catholic priests. You don't hear about them as often because the Jews control the media, and therefore they control who gets the good reps and who gets the bad reps. Guess what they do with their power? Right! Create myths and false images.
2006-10-21 09:01:55 · answer #1 · answered by David S 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the reason we hear more about catholics priests ? it because it is more news material !!!!!!!
Most pedophiles seem to be very "nice" people. They are usually very friendly individuals and that is a part of the reason they are able to get close to a child. They are very helpful and many times not only to the child but to the parents as well. A pedophile is always in control of everything. With a teen they will let the teen know that they fully understand their feelings towards adults, and in particular, the teens parents. They will many times tell the teen how mature they feel he/she is and state that the parents should really treat them as such. This is flattering to many teens and the pedophile is fully aware of that. They also make the teen feel very needed and wanted.
One thing many people are not aware of is that the neighbor next door, who loves all the children and is the friendliest guy around, offering gifts to the kids and taking them different places while paying the way, is many times a pedophile.
The pedophiles that utilize the online services operate in the same manner. There have been reported incidents where a pedophile has befriended the parent of the child while online in order to gain access to the child.
It is important to know that it has been proven that a pedophile cannot be cured and many times will continue to molest children whether he is caught or not. Being imprisoned only slows them down for awhile. They have little or no remorse for their actions, only for being caught.
2006-10-21 09:06:55 · answer #2 · answered by HJW 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure there are. But the situation in the Catholic church tends to facilitate the occurrence and frequency of this type of sexual abuse. First you have the requirement for celibacy for priests which is not found in other western religions. Then you have the tradition of altar boys, also not found elsewhere. Then the Catholic church itself has documented that a high percentage of its celibate clergy are also homosexual, which is clearly more than coincidental.
So you have a multitude of teenage (and younger) boys mixing closely and privately with homosexual men, and believing those men to be anointed by God and fountains of wisdom and moral example.
This confluence of events, if you will, has had inevitable consequences, which have been an open secret in church circles for decades.
2006-10-21 09:22:47 · answer #3 · answered by Grist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You reported it your self......we are all human. i think of the Catholic church desires to do away with the vow of celibacy. first of all, i think of you may decide for to be little "off" to decide for to take certainly one of those vow interior the 1st place. Sexual want and the desire to love and be enjoyed in return is quite a few the main effectual emotional desires of being human. it is an previous "rule" of turning right into a clergyman. you do no longer see many different religions stressful such expectancies and therefor pay attention little or no approximately sexual abuse scandals in different religions. The Catholic church has been getting away with this type of factor via fact they're an age previous faith. ought to you think of if the Scientology faith replaced into getting accused of a majority of those sexual abuse circumstances??? There may be a public outcry to close the religion down. i'm Catholic myself and it is frustrating to observe a majority of those scandals take place often. do away with the vow and permit the priest to have the potential to get married and characteristic a companion and that i think the sexual abuse circumstances might all yet disappear. So does that propose i think of all priest are molesters??? No, I in basic terms think of maximum have a sexual want and regrettably those toddlers have become the sufferers of that.
2016-10-02 13:00:14 · answer #4 · answered by huenke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all men who enter into leader ship in a Church as been called there by God. These pedophiles seek out jobs where they have clear access to children. God will have His just punnishment placed upon them, that our courts will seem like a summer picnic when it comes to them.
Those who commit those acts, clearlly are men of satan and not of God. They are rapeists, murders, liars, and thieves. They are of their father who is the devil himself.
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
God will give them the very same He is going to give their father the devil....
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Pedifilia is satan's play ground.
2006-10-21 09:03:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i cant answer for all other religions, but us Protestants don't have this ghastly pedophile problem in our clergy then again our clergy can be male female married single or whatever, were as catholic clergy/priests have supposedly to live their lives celibate also no wanking? well i ask you. maybe it is a certain type of person who would go for this job.
2006-10-21 09:10:35 · answer #6 · answered by cujimmy57ok 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! They just don't make the news.... I live in the south, where baptists and fundamentalists rule. I have heard many stories of spousal infidelity and even molestation.
The pastor at the Methodist Church nearest me left his wife of a Vietnamese woman.
2006-10-21 09:00:47 · answer #7 · answered by Shaken Not Stirred 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there are.My friend adopted a child that was the product of rape.The birth mother was 14 yrs. old and raped by her youth minister.He was Baptist "minister". He is jail for a very long time.
2006-10-21 09:01:22 · answer #8 · answered by Melissa C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They abound throughout society, they are just not as fashionable as catholic priests.
2006-10-21 08:59:50 · answer #9 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know where you are cumming from.. I was an alter boy..and boy ill never forget what a bstrd the priest was..and that's just the half of it.
2006-10-21 08:59:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋