Sunday, May 22, 2022

Here's the thing about children or adults in churches being sexually victimized or in other ways by members of their own churches

 People often cite the problems of the Catholic Church worldwide because celibacy is a place for child molesters to more easily hide where they are. 

However, I have found sexual abuse and victimization in all churches everywhere worldwide. Why?

Because religious people are more easy to victimize (in all ways) than those not religious or in people who don't attend churches.

Why Is this?

Is a certain psychology and it goes something like this: "I'm supposed to trust those of my same religion. Right?"

I can attest to this because I was raised a fundamentalist mystical Christian who believed in Creation Theory to the point where I couldn't deal with being Taught Darwin Theory in a Social Science Class in college at age 18 to the point where I had to drop out of college for a year to deal with this.

So, Yes. I can attest to people being victimized in all churches including my own. I wasn't victimized Sexually by members of the church though but I knew many people who had come up to me in my church who had been victimized by leaders and lay people in my church.

So, as I have moved through life if I got into a position to ask people who were raised in a religion whether they had been victimized (in any way) by their church growing up) I got about an 80% or higher response that that many people or more had been victimized in various ways (often including sexually) and often very young (both males and females).

And so as time went on I have found this to be universally true in all religions. Why?

Because there is a way of thinking like I said growing. that: "I'm supposed to trust those of my same religion. Right?"

And unfortunately, the answer is usually "No. If you trust universally all members of your church you will likely be victimized in some way at some point to a rate of about 80% of the people being victimized in various ways by the time they are 20 or 30 years old.

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