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Exactly. The anti-homosexual pastors don't become heterosexual predators, they get caught with prostitutes. Heterosexual celibate priests were not turned into homosexual predators and pedophiles. They were homosexual predators and pedophiles who went into the priesthood either because it gave them access to their victims or in the hopes it would aid them in their effort to contain their predatory nature.
I stand by my professional organization in saying pedophilia "is a paraphilia not a sexual orientation".
We've got more copies of the Bible than the Iliad and those myths.
The Quran wasn't preserved through adversity.
If we do not know something, this is not mean, this not exist. couple hundreds years ago airplane flights was impossible... now we bring dead back to life( with some exceptions yet). why not possible to instantly heal the person, if you know how to get primary info of body from DNA? people can change the weather now, very possible people was able to do it in past . what is wrong with water walking, if you know what levitation is? And remember - Christians killed a lot of extraordinary people in mid centuries and before. Irrational - is our thinking process now. we don't except anything we don't know,we need evidence and scientific proof. This why we have nothing. By the way - I'm not Christian.
Their are entire journals, conferences, and other academic "outlets" devoted to parapsychology and other nonsense. It is basically impossible to measure psychological damage, as 1) the debate over whether or not "measurement" is even possible in the behavioral, psychological, and social sciences remains disputed as it has since the infamous meetings over the subjects in the 30s, 2) even within psychiatry, there exists no method for even determining whether or not particular mental illnesses exist as such (rather than symptom clusters defined into existence as a singular pathology), let alone some way to determine "damage" to mental health by anything, and 3) "repressed urges" relies on the pseudoscientific nonsense of arm-chair psychoanalysis that serious researchers in clinical psychology, neuroscience, and psychology abandoned decades ago.
Which has what do with what exactly? I brought up nothing that is parapsychology.
Repression is a notion from psychoanalysis, the pseudoscientific nonsense speculated into existence by Freud. Parapsychology research has yielded in some cases superior evidence and at least usually seeks to test empirical phenomena that can be (mostly) objectively defined in such a way as to be scientifically tested. Testing the damage that celibacy does to mental health via "repressed urges" demands that one assume the existence of a theoretical concept dreamt up by arm-chair psychoanalysis in terms of metrics defined into existence.
I haven't even brought up psychoanalysis, and the idea of repression isn't confined to or exclusive to psychoanalysis. I even gave you a link showing it's even used in cognitive psychology, and, of course, cognitive-behavioral models are the current dominant models utilized in psychology.
It isn't used in cognitive psychology in any sense that relates to your posts; your brought up psychoanalysis by referring to a concept that was developed entirely within psychoanalysis; you provided a link that discussed repression in terms of Freudian psychoanalysis (which included a section on how this notion fails in certain senses in cognitive psychology) ; your link gave a description of repression that is irrelevant here, as "motivated forgetting", according to your source, is unsupported and the entirety of repression is at best described within cognitive psychology literature as "simply forgetting something...unpleasant" ("The proposition of motivated forgetting, where the motivation is both unconscious and aversive, has never been demonstrated in controlled research. For the cognitive psychologist, repression is simply forgetting something that is unpleasant. Thus studies have been done where experimenters are nasty (vs nice) to people who are trying to learn things and later it was demonstrated they remembered less when the experience was negative as opposed to positive").
Not really. I'm sure you meant, rather, that we have more textual attestation to the bible than for the Iliad and those myths, in the sense that most ancient texts survive only thanks to a few manuscripts from the middle ages whereas we have thousands upon thousands of early biblical manuscripts. However, the survival of manuscripts isn't the only form of attestation. The iliad and similar "historical" accounts are attested to in numerous other manuscript traditions, such as those of Plato, which predate the NT. The OT, also, is in general poorly attested to. Neither the OT nor the NT survive in as many kinds of forms as do the Homeric myths (e.g., epigraphy, numismatic remains, etc.).
That's my experience. The biggest problem with sex abuse is step family. Vulnerable youngsters are put into intimate contact with older people, without the protection of the incest taboo.
That is mainly because it is an institution. Not because priests are more of a danger individually than step family or "mom's boyfriend ".