HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoA pastor invited to DeSantis' Disney board meeting quoted the Bible telling people not to 'resist authority' as it strips workers' park perkswww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1154arrow-down1external-linkA pastor invited to DeSantis' Disney board meeting quoted the Bible telling people not to 'resist authority' as it strips workers' park perkswww.businessinsider.comHLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square19fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareEl Barto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·edit-21 year agoI hate every religion equally, but let’s be clear that you’re thinking of catholic priests, not pastors. Edit: well, I’ve been schooled.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoEvery major denomination that has looked into it has found similar- or more frequent- instances of abuse. Every. Denomination. The only religions that “don’t have a problem” haven’t invested in the effort to check.
minus-squareEl Barto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoHoly shit! I stand corrected, then.
minus-squareChickenstalker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoAmerican protestant pastors also molest kids. Secular coaches too. Teachers as well. Also doctors and nurses.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoIt’s a global problem. Basically any one in power over kids. Which is why it’s important to pay attention to how those people act around your kids. Most aren’t. But enough are.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agohttps://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102621352/how-the-southern-baptist-convention-covered-up-its-widespread-sexual-abuse-scand
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoGonna drop this one, as well: https://stopabusecampaign.org/2018/01/08/is-there-more-sexual-abuse-in-the-protestant-churches-than-the-catholic-church/ Also there was that incident with the Dalai Lama, and some reports from Muslim-dominate worlds in Islam.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThat Dalai Lama thing was weird as hell.
minus-squareThe BartolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI can’t think of any major religion that doesn’t have a child molestation scandal of some sort.
I hate every religion equally,
but let’s be clear that you’re thinking of catholic priests, not pastors.Edit: well, I’ve been schooled.
Every major denomination that has looked into it has found similar- or more frequent- instances of abuse.
Every. Denomination. The only religions that “don’t have a problem” haven’t invested in the effort to check.
Holy shit! I stand corrected, then.
American protestant pastors also molest kids. Secular coaches too. Teachers as well. Also doctors and nurses.
It’s a global problem. Basically any one in power over kids.
Which is why it’s important to pay attention to how those people act around your kids. Most aren’t. But enough are.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102621352/how-the-southern-baptist-convention-covered-up-its-widespread-sexual-abuse-scand
Gonna drop this one, as well: https://stopabusecampaign.org/2018/01/08/is-there-more-sexual-abuse-in-the-protestant-churches-than-the-catholic-church/
Also there was that incident with the Dalai Lama, and some reports from Muslim-dominate worlds in Islam.
That Dalai Lama thing was weird as hell.
…yeah.
I can’t think of any major religion that doesn’t have a child molestation scandal of some sort.