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Originally Posted by Nell
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Great links Nell. Thanks. The sexual abuse is one thing -- as long as humans are involved it's gonna happen -- but the cover up is another.
Long ago, when I was a kid, I attended a very conservative Southern Baptist church here in Kentucky. When I moved back here I attended it again. But it was too conservative for my liking.
But my cousin has been in attendance for decades ; deacon, elder figure, only reader of Koine Greek, and such.
A few years ago he told me what happened at his church : The preacher got caught stealing from members, and more cats jumped out of the bag, so to speak : like rape of a single sister.
So what did the church do to this preacher? They sent him up the road with a letter of good recommendation.
Why? Because they didn't want to stain the reputation of the church. And they don't even have the Noah type doctrine of covering God's delegated anointed ... so no 'covering' doctrine.
But cover up they did. When called on the carpet the preacher's wife admitted that he was doing it at every church that hired him as a preacher. Now that preacher can go do it to another church.
I hate to be cyclical, but this is what we get, and can expect, as long as humans are involved. Human nature has a long, long, long -- going back into prehistory days even -- of being very stubborn, and impossible to eradicate.
But it doesn't help if abuse is covered up, and not reported to authorities.