• @Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
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    331 month ago

    Do a search for “pedophile pastor”, “pedophile priest” or “pedophile preacher” and you will find page after page after page of sexual crimes against children… To lighten the mood do an image search for golf cheat and count all the american presidents you see.

    • @jsomae@lemmy.ml
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      -61 month ago

      There are large numbers of pastors, priests, and teachers. Even if we expect pedophilia to be no more common in these professions than others, due to their proximity to children such crimes will be common. So I don’t think the takeaway from this kind of google search should be that such professions are especially pedophilic.

      • @markko@lemmy.world
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        41 month ago

        It’s not the profession that’s the problem, but there is evidence that problem people gravitate to such professions where they have that position of power.

        • @jsomae@lemmy.ml
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          01 month ago

          I agree, but I don’t think a google search for “teacher pedophile” should change your opinion one way or the other.

  • @relative@lemmy.world
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    111 month ago

    I attended this church growing up, it taught me some important lessons.

    Like, religion is a sham and people are hopelessly indoctrinated.

    And, as Carlin put it, “God needs mooooonnneeeeyyyhhh!”.

  • @SpaceRanger13@lemm.ee
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    41 month ago

    Only the best charlatans work for co-president Tbag! Praise jebus, as well as all the tots and pears for another pastor caught diddling kids.

  • @1984@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    Amazing how these so called Christian people have so many mental issues.

    How many millions have died in religious crusades and other idiocy…

  • Zier
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    501 month ago

    As I always say, keep your children away from religion. They are the pedophiles, and they accuse everybody else of it. It’s a cult!

    • @Nelots@lemm.ee
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      221 month ago

      And even if you think it’s not a cult, your children will have plenty of time to meet God or whatever when they’re old enough to make the decision on their own. Your god isn’t so weak that he needs to indoctrinate impressionable children to gain followers, is he?

      • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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        121 month ago

        That’s the thing that always bothered me about religion. There’s no sales pitch, its just indoctrination. There’s a million different varieties of religion, and supposedly only one of them is “correct”

        Judaism seems to make the most sense to me of the monotheistic varieties because there is no demi gods like Christianity. But clearly religion isn’t about religion, it’s more about having an in group.

        • Zier
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          21 month ago

          Just a FYI, Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all Abrahamic religions. Read the Torah, Bible and Quran and you will see that many stories are either identical or very similar, because they are all parts of the same religion. And even worse, these stories were stolen from many other cultures. None of it is real. It’s not even written well. Harry Potter or James Bond novels are better written. Religion is just mythology, none of it is real. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a lunch date with Zeus & Thor.

          • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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            21 month ago

            Religion is a net harm in my opinion. For every person that is inspired to do good, an equal amount do as much or greater harm by doing bad in the name of religion. That’s not even to mention the weird thought processes that arise from the afterlife concept… Climate change not mattering being a prime example.

            I fail to see how people need a moral code written by god to be good. I think if you somehow could mind wipe the earth of religion, there would be a similar number of equally good and bad people here. You certainly wouldn’t have to worry about dominionists provoking war to start the beginnings of their idealized end times.

          • ThePowerOfGeek
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            41 month ago

            It’s like when you hear some hardcore Christians (and probably other hardcore religious people) say that without the threat of eternal damnation they would be going around raping and murdering other people all over the place. And to them that’s the main justification for the need for religion.

            To me that’s just a massive red flag that they are psychopaths and completely horrible people. If the only thing keeping you in check is angry sky daddy then you have something profoundly wrong with you.

  • @skozzii@lemmy.ca
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    171 month ago

    How many times does this have to happen until people figure out it’s not a coincidence?