Church Scandal

[Menelik]

It seems like every time you hear about a scandal in a church it has to do with sex. It blew my mind that this particular diocese had to pay out close to a billion dollars!

I'm a backsliding Baptist but I remember that a church I attended back in the 70s was nearly torn apart by guess what? One of the youth ministers was screwing around with several of the (underage) members. Are these kind of scandals peculiar to Christian churches? I've never heard of any taking place in other religions.

Scandal!

 

[White Shogun]

Are these kind of scandals peculiar to Christian churches? I've never heard of any taking place in other religions.

The Prophet Muhammad married a child and allegedly deflowered her at the age of nine.

I'd say you don't hear about it because it isn't much of a scandal in other places. For one, they don't see it as a scandal in the first place, for older men to have sex with young girls. They can generally marry at younger ages than here in the United States, as far as I know. In India, you can find teenagers working as temple prostitutes. The rest of the world isn't as enlightened, if you will, to the idea that sex between minors and men is 'taboo.'

Our country loves a scandal. In other places, things like these are hidden and under-reported. But not here. There is money to be made. Lawsuits, news stories, books, made for TV movie deals. I doubt any thing like this would get any headway at all in a place like Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or India.

I seriously doubt there is a place on the planet where men aren't having sex with younger women. Our society says that a 14 year old girl isn't mature enough to make a decision to have sex, but she certainly was old enough to marry and make babies in turn of the (19th) century USA. Our society has changed and so has it's norms. The rest of the world hasn't caught up, if you will, and likely will not, at the rate things are going.

 

[jaxvid]

Are these kind of scandals peculiar to Christian churches? I've never heard of any taking place in other religions.

Scandal!

Gee the news media doesn't cover Jewish religions sex scandals as aggresively as they do Christian religions. How could that happen?

http://www.aboms.com/archives/005099.html
A Brooklyn yeshiva covered up a rabbi's long history of child molestation and threatened parents and children who tried to end the abuse, it was charged yesterday. Officials of Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Temimah knew of Rabbi Joel Kolko's attacks on...

http://www.aboms.com/archives/005778.html
It wasn't only boys. Since the Baltimore Jewish Times' April 13 account that the deceased Rabbi Ephraim F. Shapiroâ€â€￾former principal of the Talmudical Academy and spiritual leader of the old Agudas Achim Synagogueâ€â€￾molested young boys hundreds of times, at least...

http://www.aboms.com/archives/005992.html
The Chief Rabbinate will discuss a proposal to strip rabbis found guilty of sexual offenses of their title, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on Tuesday. The matter arose following an ongoing investigation against a Nahariya rabbi for raping minors.

http://www.aboms.com/archives/004590.html
A Maryland rabbi caught in a television sting operation was convicted of traveling to Herndon for what he thought would be sex with a 13-year-old boy he met over the Internet.

I could go on. Here's one involving Wiccans.

http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=6785262
Couple Face Charges in Wiccan Religion Molestation Case
Police arrest a Santa Maria couple accused of using the Wicca religion to lure a 15-year-old girl into sex. Sean and Rachelle Pelino face six felony counts each, including several charges of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor.