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This happened in Minnesota and it is morally repugnant that this church continues to exist.

They must all be republicans.

A story as old as the oldest church, it’s like a gateway drug for a pedophile, it’s a tax free church to protect their congregation from crimes of the church.

Christ always taught and teaches forgive. Christ *never* taught or teaches forget. Christ teaches that without him we must answer to all our sins (aka crimes in the legal world). He also teaches this....

Makes me sick

Thoughts and prayers

Preachers: If it was good enough for your grandparents and parents, it’s good enough for you! The Lord will decide the fate of offenders.

This happened to me at 16 & moved to live with my aunt & uncle to find out he was a womanizer & abuser & tried to catch me up in it the church did not want to expose him until he accused me of flaunting in front of him the church then stood up and got rid of him he took money he didn't pay back too

All this nice self proclaimed "Christians" protecting paedophiles?

Castration

Brainwashing, that's how. That's how organised religion usually works.

#ItsNeverADragQueen

in 1956 the Catholic Church told my mother that sexual abuse was a natural part of growing up..... she told me when I was dealing with being sexually abused by my brothers.. and to answer the Question: Abuse is central to creating believers for religion.. abuse forces many into a fantasy world ...

Why is it always the evangelical misogynist nutters who are the sickest child predators? Just saying !

@papst-ny.bsky.social

Not only is it acceptable for MAGA that our children are gunned down in schools, being molested, trafficked, and/or raped is acceptable too? What are we doing?

Fucking horrific

I can't wait until all the pedos are arrested

These people are trained from birth to be obsequious and subservient to Big Daddy and certainly not to question authority. Reagan cozied up to the "religious" leaders of the day because he knew that's where Republicans could find the most gullible.

You are not wrong. A lot of pedos are attracted to religion & associated programs like scouting, etc. to prey on the vulnerable.

Yup! 👍🏼

There's no mandated reporting of abuse when the child tells religious figures. Exactly why they're pushing for this. I was absolutely shocked when adults who know better demanded schools reopen at the height of a pandemic to get their parents back to work. They dgaf about the children AT ALL.

Churches exist to protect pedophiles and abusers. Always have

I bet he’s a full fledged magat.

Because to christians, children are objects. Sit down, shut up. The Lord says to submit. "Save the children!" is really about maintaining control. Then these abused children grow up to be abused, submissive housewives who watch as their own children are abused and say nothing.

This is shocking, infuriating, and demonstrates the twisted perversion of some Christian teachinigs to sustain and protect child sexual abuse by so-called "Christians". EVERYONE who knew about this and allowed it to continue needs to go to jail for life.

can we ask a question as to who this asshole pedophile supported and still supports in the election? bet it's a repuglican. bet it's someone who thinks rape and pedophilia is perfectly fine so long as they don't get caught. ALL repuglicans are repugnant gaping child rapist assholes.

When Dems refuse to call out this cancer by evangenital churches literally raping kids, while these very same evangenitals demonize trans Americans as a "danger" to women and girls, we lose the culture war and our soul as a country. This is a lay up for Dem leadership and they never take the shot.

This is why I don't believe in forgiveness. I believe in justice.

I'd have burned the place down.

Let's deport them all.

Forgiving and "forgetting" is in fact the best way ahead. Ask any shrink.

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Forgive and forget?? No way!!!

How's your union?

Forgive and forget, sick. The Catholic Bishops told their priest and lay people to tell victims "Its behind you now, its time to move on" as they punished whistle blowers and promoted and moved priests.

He was not reported because the preachers were involved.

And all-too-familiar story, I'm afraid.

One of the many reasons why I left JWs was the lack of action elders would take against men of their rank. I knew wives who were beaten by these godly leaders & their daughters abused. Rape was to be reported to the elders not to the police, that missive came from HQ. They protect the guilty.

It is horrifying that this happened Please do not assume abuse of children happens only in churches. Schools, sports, extra-curricular activities, all too often in their own families, children are vulnerable when the community is not looking out for them Children become victims when adults look away

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Fake prophets.

Never forgive, never forget and hold abusers accountable. Period.

This is SOP in churches. Trust me.

The “forgiveness” scam is one of the most insidious parts of how patriarchy controls its victims. No one should be forgiving evil.

Is masturbation simply not enough?

Diderot was right.

They can say they forgive, but they will never forget.

I keep saying churches are cults that just want your money and your kids

That God guy sure works in mysterious ways!

The children can forgive and forget but the culprits must pay for their crimes

Because women and girls aren’t important

I bet they vote republican

Christianity needs some remedial therapy in places like this 🤬🤬🤬🤬😭😭😭😭

This is a main reason that church is harmful...

God told them to hes a pervert sometimes and a murderer and racist other times. Oh what a glorious heaven awaits us.

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Because theists are evil and here is the proof. They knew what was going on and did nothing, thereby enabling the abuse to happen. And where was their all loving god in all of this? Nowhere because it never existed in the first place!

Because it's just the tip of the iceberg and part of their "deal".

Because keeping the money coming in is their primary goal. Protecting children is of little interest to them. It would seem that they look at kids as a benefit of the job for preachers.

Wow! Man have you fallen far!

They should all be charged under RICO statutes.

So much for drag queens. Religious settings equal abuse of children. It's harmful in so many ways.

those clergy-people should run for office.

It's okay to Forgive. But to forget can get a person in the mid of a homicide! Nope Forgetting is out of the negotiations.

Forgive and forget favors abusers - prosecute and convict is the correct response to these crimes.

Because America got more than its fair share of the world's profoundly stupid.

This is why. faithful-grigori.tumblr.com/post/6773975...

Shut down the church. Stop giving tax free status to religious organizations. Especially the Catholic Church with its history of abuse. Those priests should be in prison, but they are protected. There is a separation of church and state. Time to make that a reality.

How about indict, try, convict, punish, and provide care to the survivors of sexual violence fostered by the trusted authority figures of the church? That, or simply feeding them to the jackals are preferable to “forgive & forget”! #CrimesAgainstChildren

Religion is a man made tax free grift , God is an excuse for criminal behavior over 2k years now

Forgiveness is overrated.

Anywhere there's a power structure, there are assholes lined up at the door to abuse it. God's got precious little to do with it

The Assemblies of God church covered up my abuse. After he confessed, his family gave the church $10k and said he apologized. Said it would never happen again and they are a good Christian family. But people let them keep getting away with it. America is groomed to never criticize Christians.

Religion will one day be looked on as a mental weakness that our species finally outgrew. Faith over Facts is hardly a formula for success.

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I thought maybe the Baptist Church but it's Lutheran. Waiting for the transcript.

OMG!

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Over here where I live we have a law that will send you to jail if you don’t report such serious crimes to the police the moment you have proof or very serious suspicions...

But they just can't understand why people are turning away from the church in droves.

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Do the hard-right Evangelical “Christians” abuse children more than the public generally? I’m really asking.

This is why Saran is a better option to serve

And we are worried about an Islamic religion takeover…..

The Rightwing White Christian Republican Men are pedophiles. No other way to describe it.

This is the fight! We are going to destroy the world so men can rape little children in the name of a god! WTF! Everybody in America knows more children are harmed in a church than anywhere else in America, we still hide it. Stopping god salespeople from using public restrooms would save kid's lives

Now where have I heard that before? Oh that's right, The Catholic Church!!

This is sickening; abuse of power, psychological and physical abuse, exploitation of people’s religious beliefs These people will not be part of God’s kingdom

Forgive and forget. Fuck that. Castration with the knife slipping and taking everything.

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This is why I don’t really believe that anybody believes in the religion they claim to follow… 

And that's part of the grooming.

US needs a national exorcism.

Just tax the fucking Churches and the rich.

Why is this normal?

You can always rely on Christians to be the worst among us.

No worries, our government department of justice sympathizes… with the preachers.

What do churches and republicans have in common? They are both useless grifters

Grooming gang in the WH, protecting Grooming gang in the churches!

The real evil, isn't it?

#CSA #Epstein we need more women in leadership positions, especially in churches.

Who knew the religion industry hired loads of drag queens?

Castration without anesthetics. Then prison.

If you know child abuse is happening and don’t report it, you belong in prison with the depraved degenerate because not reporting it, allowing it to happen, is a sick kind of depravity, too. Enjoying it from a safe distance.

isn’t that *all* churches?

Disgusting. Low life pedo preachers are sadly a dime a dozen nowadays.

There is no greater crime than that against a woman or a child.

NEVER FORGET NOR FORGIVE! In history such men were given a EUNICH treatment. Time we return to SUCH means!

Religion mostly considers women to be little more than breeding stock.

All “religions” are organised cults. And every cult has pedophiles. Every single one.

If you could REASON with religious people there wouldn't be any religious people.

I’d be kneeing the priest in the balls three times & saying you forgive & forget cnut.

The Old Apostolic Lutheran Church (Bunners) are lunatic nut jobs. They are currently taking over Battleground, WA, a formerly nice small town. They have ties to the White Supremacy Christo-Nationalist of Moscow, ID.

No "church" that places it's reputation above the welfare of it's parishoners - especially children - should be allowed to call itself a church and receive a tax exempt status. It's a pedophile support group

Because jebus

‘Bout 33 C.E.

At this point, if you’re a parent and you don’t have your eyes on your children AT ALL TIMES, then you have failed as a parent. There is no place more dangerous for children than church

Churches are supposed to be a safe place. Not a feeding ground for pedophiles!

“Forgiving you was easy, but forgetting seems to take a long, long time.” Willy Nelson