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Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police. It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.” (Published Nov. 2025 with @startribune.com)

propublica.orgYoung Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...

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This is why I stopped worshipping in a church. I tried several religions trying to find the one I wanted to belong to. THE ONES I ATTENDED WERE HYPOCRITES. The leaders in churches are your groomers and pedophiles. Don’t leave your child alone with any man. I worship GOD and we’re on good terms.

And there in a nutshell is what's bad about religion. Forgiveness from "god" for your sins--ANYTHING except not believing--is a permission structure to continue your conduct. Carry them with you the rest of your life and you have an opportunity to be better.

Forgive, pray, and forget, keeping the dirt "in-house" is common among close-knit Evangelical churches in rural areas. Adjacent to "pray the gay away", it totally shields accountability for offenders, invalidates harms to victims, and is done to preserve the homeostasis of the church community.

We may or may not forgive. We do not ever forget. Because our FUCKING NERVOUS SYSTEM STUCK IN TRAUMA MODE won't allow us to. Sincerely, every SA survivor ever What an utterly despicable perversion of forgiveness. Monsters. This is WHY people are leaving churches, and they won't be back.

Zero percent surprised. ATP Christian parents know the dangers of leaving their children alone at church and do it anyway. It’s sick. 🤢

White audacious privilege is a mother fucker! They gave him the right to be a pedophile and fuck their own kids! But they were probably fucking their own kids too knowing white trailer garbage violent racist whitey...