Does it bother you that your offerings to the church are used to pay off sex scandals of pedophiles?

Answer 1

(1) Where do you think the money to pay for those non-essential church properties came from? And the money to get new non-essential church properties?

(2) If you want to argue that post-pubescent boys are not children, you'd have a hell of a fight on your hands. But I'll even give you that. I heard the story of one man who was abused from the age of 7. Boy or girl, he was still a child and the priest a pedophile.

(3) What many people claim God provides through his church is usually non-tangible or at least non-materialistic. We're talking about finances in this question.

As for my answer, yes it would bother me if I knew that my contributions or the contributions of my family were being used because some priests get there jollies from little boys, thus why I doubt I would ever join a religion even if I did believe in God.

Answer 2

(1) The payments came from sale of non-essential church properties

(2) There were no pedophiles. Men who proposition adolescent boys are not pedophiles. They are homosexuals.

(3) What God provides through His Church is not dependent upon the personal morality of any Church members.

Answer 3

Yes

Answer 4

Yes it does.

I still think if they let priests marry, we would have less repressed sexual feelings, and less of this kind of stuff would happen. Is it reasonable to expect someone to be asexual their entire life, regardless of their devotion to God?