• Abuse of Faith: 20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads
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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/Southern-Baptist-sexual-abuse-spreads-as-leaders-13588038.php
The religious institutions that are getting away with shit like, it just seems like water under the bridge at this point it's so normal and so deep rooted that I'm not even sure if anything can be done any more, outside of massive investigations and arrests, which is what should be happening. Even when they are being convicted in the hundreds, they're accepted straight back into the church like nothing happened. Even arrests don't stop them. It's sick and nobody with the power to actually do something about it either doesn't care or supports it. Every time we see a big "Leak" of something that's already well known and well established as fact people act surprised and then stop giving a shit a week later. They use donations for their own good and to avoid being caught. Any church doing this is basically a criminal organization for child molesters and rapists. Don't pretend like churches that do this are worth anything to a community. They aren't. They are mud on your fucking boots. They left behind more than 700 victims, many of them shunned by their churches, left to themselves to rebuild their lives. Some were urged to forgive their abusers or to get abortions. Isn't that funny. It's almost like these slimes have no morals. Almost like reading a book doesn't make you a good person.
Given how many times I've seen this happen locally with churches, I agree with OP's username
and unlike the vatican it goes massively unreported
Satanists are the actually well adjusted types and cool people all around Go figure
Unlike the Vatican, there is no central authority to report it to. While many Baptist churches are part of national congregation leagues, or church cooperatives, they aren't ultimately answerable beyond the administration of their own small sphere of influence. It's a problem. There's a reason that the historic churches of the world, from Catholic to Orthodox and back, ultimately tended towards centralization, institutionalization and confederation, and it's not just because of monarchies or dogma.
there's no one group but there are central groups that represent each church, the vatican just is a much easier target since its not in the US
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