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Before you post, check if your denom has been accused of the same thing.

>>576577

See >>576565

That's a shame, but there's no reason to play up the "Southern Baptist Convention" thing. Every denomination has had someone doing something horrible. It's the result of being an imperfect species in a perfect creation.

>>576577

I think the difference here, really, is that those men went to prison instead of being transferred to a new parish. Just sayin.

>>576579

the Church is free of sin, it is only plagued by liars and servants of Satan who look to exploit her in false accusations

>Reprobate sodomite creeping in unawares to molest young men

Who would have thought?

>>576583

Do you see how Baptists could claim the same thing? >>576585

>Pressler is a leader in the “conservative resurgence” in the Southern Baptist Convention, which seeks to push back against perceived liberal influence in the Baptist church. Several pages of Rollins’ suit attempt to discredit the theology of the resurgence, arguing that Pressler and others seek power over women and children.

what the heck

Jude 1:4

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ungodly unbelievers using the cloak of God's grace and Christian trust to commit lustful acts. As it was in the days of Jude, so shall it be today.

>>576594

It's like how in Pizzagate so many of the people whose jobs it is to protect children were themselves involved with the sex rings.

>>576596

I think that it happens a lot on the local level and never makes the news. In the county where I currently live a child protection services employee ( employed by the county with state money and mostly working with the public school systems) was caught doing very bad things with the kids over a 15 year period. He will never get out of jail. The story and the trial got very little coverage in printed or broadcast media. I do live out in the middle of nowhere though.

>>576565

Is there a denomination that hasn't?

Roughly 5% of the general population are pedophiles. It's statistically inevitable that any organization will eventually unintionally hire pedophiles, and another statistical inevitability that some of those pedophiles will use their positions to molest children. This fact has no bearing whatsoever on the moral teachings of the institution itself, except by way of guilt by association, which is a logical fallacy. Christianity teaches that child molestation is wrong. When someone uses a position in a church to molest children, you can't condemn that church or its teachings for a member acting against the teachings against the will of the church. Doing so is irrational.

I just hope this humbles those protestants who like to be very vindictive about slandering other churches for child abuse. Innocent until proven guilty.

>>576565

This is why we should start new denominations, just so we can be sure ours doesn't have pastors doing this crap

>>576933

You can't ever be sure. Only God knows what is in men's hearts. You can't tell a pedo by looking and it's not like the pedo puts it on his resume.

Sadly, sex crimes among Protestant leaders is probably more widespread than Catholics. I'm a Prot and we can't afford to be smug about this. We need to clean our houses of abusers.