why do religious people molest children?
154622
That is a very unfair analogy, like saying all gays molest kids.  It is patently untrue.  What it is is that these beings going into an area of work that brings them in direct contact with kids.  They are animals in human skin.
834907
Personally, I never understood that.  Especially for priests.  Holy men should have families, not be sexually suppressed and molest little boys.  It is a gift from God to have a life partner, and to have children.  Men of the cloth should have that blessing and I dont know where chastidy= faith comes from.  Never understood it and I thank I found a faith which encourages marraige and discourages being single!
83808
Sexual assault and or muder on children.
191387
I would have to say that in a sense, it is stripping a child of a great deal of their freedom to choose their religious beliefs later in life.\n\nMany people do not realize that it is indoctrination.  If you raise a child to think that something is right, and all other things are wrong, than that child is going to most likely continue to think that all of their life.\n\nA perfect example is abuse or bigotry.  Studies have shown that a child raised in an abusive home is much more likely to grow up and think that abuse is normal and ok, and therefore, to abuse their spouse and/or children.\n\nSomeone who grows up in a home where bigotry is prominent is likely to grow up thinking that bigotry is normal and ok, and thus perpetuate the cycle.\n\nThe same thing with religion.  Many people grow up being taught a certain religion all of their childhood years, and continue to believe that religion is good and right.\n\nAs for moral and ethical teachings, you don't need religion to teach a child about morals and ethics.  I don't need any holy doctrine to teach me that it is wrong to use violence when it is not neccessary, or to teach me that it is not right to steal.\n\nIf people are wanting to find a middle ground, a compromise, than raise your child(ren) in your religion, but do not be close-minded.  Tell them that it is ok to look into other religions, and try to find people who follow other religons so that when your children have questions, there is someone there to answer the questions that has the appropriate knowledge, and not some preconceived, uneducated opinion.  And please, do not take the route that my family took, i.e. "I dont care what religion you follow as long as it recognizes that there is only one God and that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior."\n\nPersonally, I feel that it is best to raise children in such a way as to leave religion out of their upbringing as much as possible, so that when the child is old enough, they can come to the parent with questions.
1161697
Parents need to get involved with their children's lives.  They need to be aware of where and what their children are doing and teaching them about the sickos in this world.  Too many parents want their children to be the responsibility of schools and other organizations (the convenient baby sitters of our society).  Unfortunately, the sickness continues to grow in our society!  Remember that the child predators had parents that didn't do their jobs in most cases.  Get back to teaching morals! I'm not talking religion but our society is obsessed with sex and the product is sexual deviates.  So the answer is not just catching the sickos but trying to raise a generation that will eliminate them in the first place!
404114
A bunch of sick perverts who want to molest kids and think that it should be legal for men to love boys.  What they seemingly don't realize is that the love they want is really the freedom to molest kids, since their "love" is one sided.  I doubt those boys want molested.
894223
I suppose it's how extreme a form of their religion they follow. Look at the number of so called honour killings happening, where people have relationships outiside their social or religious background. It's rather worrying- i was watching it on crime watch the other night.
57739
Not necessarily easy to say. A few reasons might be:\n\n1. Some folks say that some persons who are gay might be attracted to the priesthood as a way of trying to sublimate their homosexual urges. \n\n2. Often persons who have sexual relationships with children use their position of power to coerce children into trusting them and then they have sexual relationships with them. Priests are the ultimate authority figures and can often intimidate others.\n\n3. The children that priests have contact with have typically been boys--alter boys. \n\nI think that they have gotten away with it because the powers that be in the Catholac Church were arrogant and put the needs of the church ahead of the needs of children. I suspect that there was some level of lack of understanding about child sexual abusers, but in the end it was a lousy value decision made by the leadership in the Catholac Church. It finally took an outcry from many people to stop it.
929749
The answer to your question is Liberal Judges who want to understand and empathize with the child molester rather than treating them as the excrement they are.\n Instead of a much needed Castration they are sent to therapy.
275689
It makes immature people uncomfortable, because all they think about are the "acts" of a gay person. Then some decide to hide behind scripture as a defense for there intolerance. For the record, if you believe the same god powerful enough to create the entire universe cares what two adults do in the privacy of there own bedroom as long as there not hurting anyone else, you need to reevaluate your spiritual priorities.
938139
Pedophiles shouldn't be permitted to walk at all.   They should have their spines snapped and forced to crawl like the low life scum that they are.
685421
I agree with Wendy.  I'll be thinking about this and I'll post later if I think of anything new, but at the very least, it would be fornication, which is condemned.\n\nCatholic priests have no business touching children.  Period.  God does not condone it.  In fact, they will be held to stricter judgment for being a stumbling block to their victims and all those who turned away from God because of their ungodly influence.\n\nI appreciate your concern for children.  I know God hates it.  I'll keep thinking.\n\n(As for cutting off one's hand or foot or putting out one's eye - that's how serious it is.)
530574
I think it does.  But it also makes them pedophiles that need to be in jail.  That goes for anyone who molests any child.
799950
The vast majority of Catholic priests are not child molesters.  \n\nAnd the vast majority of child molesters are not Catholic priests.  \n\n.
376866
most of them are and the ones that arent protect the ones that are!!!!!!, dont remeber god saying that it was o.k to abuse little children must have missed that bit!!!!!!!!!!! i say kill all clergymen who touch children (only probs is the the hell would there be left to carry on spewing the crap??)decided to convert to jedi much better religion to have and get the force for free,
1007869
Good point. That's all they do. Brainwashing people specially young and naive. and they always use a form of religion to do that. Don't forget religion could be very dangerous.
596213
sadly your friend is the victom of a good christian upbringing! jesus brought the word of love and pease. man, invented a religion! in this religion a bunch of wackoos got together and dreamed up a lot of sick ideas and made them law. so for 2000 years people fearing eternal damnation have followed these sick laws. now that people have out grown the need for self punishment, a lot of these sick ideas are now criminal offences. for example, your freind was referring to the old addage, "spare the rod, spoil the child" this means you can beat the hell out of your children and feel good about it because," GOD demands it!"  now days, IT'S CALLED CHILD ABUSE!!  a hopfully  the bitch will get turned in and have to sit her ass in jail or at least have her kid taken away from her! don't you just love that old time religion?