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Originally posted by Slartibartfast
It could be because comparing child molesting to candidate backing feels a bit of a stretch.
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The church condoned child molestation. It protected it people so that they could molest again. Regardless of how pure and holy you may think they are, the church protected child molestors and even put them back into positions where they could molest again.
"I could not be responsible for that crime because I did not know." Does not matter when it is the responsiblity of that person to know, when the facts are obvious, and when they did everything to, instead, not know. Its called giving aid and comfort to the enemy during war, and it is called being an accessory to the crime in civil justice. The church as a dictatorship would therefore protect and hide child molestors rather than admit to or fix the problem. Child molestation was found in every dioceses in the US. So obvious that news reporters could find it even when the church tried to block their investigation. Numbers vary from 4 to 12% of priests are pedaphiles. A responsible church - one that was not a dictatorship - would have had to acknowledge this. Unfortunately so many Catholics blindly believe anything from the church as to deny how rampant the church was a haven for pedaphiles.
In any other bureaucracy, the top managmenet would have been thrown out long ago. But the church is a dictatorship where followers blindly believe. Where the followers are not devout enough to see the difference between doctrine from a church bureaucracy verses the actual religion - as defined by the bible. Devout Catholic are found in organizations banned by the church.
Pedaphilia has a fertile valley in the bosom of the church. Even the current pope basically refused to deal with the problem even after all the American Catholic bishops were called to Rome just for this problem. Instead the church would ban grass root church organizatons that demand long needed reform such as "Voice of the Faithful". Dicatorships fear reform and groups that advocate reform.
Background - "Voices of the Faithful" is banned and condemned by the Catholic Church because VoF are critical that the church bureacracy even ignored pedaphilia - child molestation. The church instead began transfering funds so that lawsuites could not find church money - rather than admit how many pedaphiles exist in the church. IOW, Voices of the Faithful demand the church be a democracy - so that pedaphilia is not protected by the church. Blind and therefore not devout Catholics would deny all this. Blind Catholics simply believe everything in church dogma - also called the bureaucracy's doctrine. Those who blindly believe (are therefore not devout Catholics) meet a defintion called "accessory to the crime". By their silence,these blind followers made the church ripe for pedaphiles.