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Sexual Abuse in religion

KW

Well-Known Member
Aww, muffin.


I'm sure you're as capable of using Google as I am, so you should have no issue finding the theologians of virtually every monotheistic religion saying things like "God transcends gender."

You can find somebody saying anything on the internet. That’s has nothing to do with what the major religions teach.
 

Dan From Smithville

The Flying Elvises, Utah Chapter
Staff member
Premium Member
Aware of what? Did you even read the first post of this thread?
What does the first post of this thread have to do with the posts of responses you have gotten. Are you sure you are responding to the right person?

And yes, I have read it.
 

KW

Well-Known Member
What does a political position have to do with the fact that organized religions have been plagued with instances of sexual abuse?

The left is anti religion.

Their stated goals include the destruction of Christianity.

Religious people reject absolute power in the state.
 

Dan From Smithville

The Flying Elvises, Utah Chapter
Staff member
Premium Member
The left is anti religion.

Their stated goals include the destruction of Christianity.
Still not clear on how that relates to the fact that children are abused by members of religious organizations and that often those organizations try to cover it up.

Are you suggesting they should get a pass, because you don't like certain political positions?
 

Dan From Smithville

The Flying Elvises, Utah Chapter
Staff member
Premium Member
The left is anti religion.

Their stated goals include the destruction of Christianity.

Religious people reject absolute power in the state.
Is that a fashionable belief? Where are these goals stated?
 

KW

Well-Known Member
Still not clear on how that relates to the fact that children are abused by members of religious organizations and that often those organizations try to cover it up.

Are you suggesting they should get a pass, because you don't like certain political positions?


The premise of the post was the false claim that sexual abuse is more common in religious organizations.
 

KW

Well-Known Member
Is that a fashionable belief? Where are these goals stated?

NEA specialist Paul Haubner, tells us, "The schools cannot allow parents to influence the kind of values-education their children receive in school; . that is what is wrong with those who say there is a universal system of values. Our goals are incompatible with theirs. We must change their values."

Chester M. Pierce, M.D., Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard, had this to say: "Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our Founding Fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by creating the international child of the future."

Some politicians agree. Former Nebraska state senator Peter Hoagland said: "Fundamentalist parents have no right to indoctrinate their children in their beliefs. We are preparing their children for the year 2000 and life in a global one-world society and those children will not fit in."

In the Humanist Magazine, Jan./Feb 1983, John Dunphy wrote: "The battle for mankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom . The classroom must and will become the arena of conflict between the old and the new . the rotting corpse of Christianity and the new faith of humanism."

Why Our Schools Teach Socialism -- September 2001 Education Reporter
 
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