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Originally Posted by Niamhxo
Look, I don't know, I'm not going to trawel the net looking for figures or anything, I'm just going to give you my opinion from what I have seen and heard. I turn on the radio in the morning and the news comes on, it's not very often I hear about cases of child abuse within the general public but there hardly seems a day that goes by when something about the church comes up.
And like I said, the church had such a hold over people up until not so long ago and for all this stuff to come out, it's twice as bad, and it's no wonder people are losing faith in the religion because of it.
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"Last year, it was reported that half of the girls fostered in social democratic Sweden in the 50s and 60s had been abused; according to Camila Batmanghelidjh 550,000 children are reported to the social services in this country every year."
The Catholic figures show that between about 4% of priests and deacons serving in the US between 1950 and 2002 had been accused of sexual abuse of someone under 18. In this country, the figure was a 10th of that: 0.4%
It is like blaming war on religion, get a group of humans together under any banner and you will get violence and sexual abuse - regardless of what the banner may say.
As the Bible says "all have sinned".