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This is the real danger to girls and women.

Organized religion is cult. It needs to be barred from existing at all, as the mental health damage it does by creating such cognitive dissonance and fraud upon people's lives is permanent and generational. Western religion, in particular, is also aggressively violent towards girls & women & LGBTQ+.

Some things CAN NEVER be FORGIVEN and no matter how much the victims may try, they will NEVER FORGET!

Preachers: Forgive and forget but most important of all, say nothing!

It's not just the church it is society. I have been told to get over it, get help , let it goooo. Move on. YOU DONT GET OVER IT YOU LEARN TO TRY TO LIVE WITH IT. LIVE WITH KNOWING THE MEN NEVER GETV HELD UP TO JUSTICE. KNOWING THEY KEEP DOING IT TO INNOCENT CHILDREN. THEY DONR STOP

I CAN’T DO THAT - TRUMP MUST PAY FOR THE HORRIFIC RAPES AGAINST CHILDREN!!!

How many times are girls and women taught that "men just can't help themselves?"

Tag that under all things #mormon #lds

So still not a drag queen? Is that what I’m seeing?

I will never understand why anyone would leave their kid unattended and unprotected in a church.

Lock them up

Probably white male pedophiles

This midterm election, has to be won by a landslide by Democrats. so we can begin to fix all of the horrendous/stupid policy actions from Donald Trump, and his unqualified cabinet. Therefore, Democrats and independent voters need to vote a straight ticket for democrats. There is no other choice.

Turn the other cheek, and allow yourself to be beat.

Appalling. Suffer the little children to come unto JUSTICE.

Men are the problem

republicans love this plot. "sorry you had a bad time, but jesus wouldn't have let it happen if it wasn't legit. let's just forgive and forget."

That is what I was told by Bishops in the church/cult I used to attend. 🤬

May they burn in Hell!

Fraud .. Homicide .. Sexual Assault .. Child Sexual Abuse .. All you got to do is say God forgave you, cry a little 😭 & it's all good. Go out grab more women by the poo-c, do another child, then cry a little more. To MAGA Christians, it's all God Rinse & Repeat!🤡 www.youtube.com/shorts/WNwpZ...

How sad for the victims. And how irresponsible of those running the church. Unfortunately, pretty much every denomination has this problem. They all can do better.

2/2 That was not the first time in my life I'd experienced a church covering up for sexual predators. But it was the one, (I was an adult with kids of my own) that made me leave the church.

… to forget … about the church, leaving it behind, for good

All these "churches" need someone to oversee them.

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Children who are made to face their abusers by their parents and clergy *have no choice.* It is NOT voluntary forgiveness, it is forced on them. They are forced to allow their abusers to touch them again, while their "protectors" watch. The very "forgive and forget" meetings are themselves abusive.

Families with incest as their family tradition do the same exact thing.

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I went to see a priest because of the abuse at home. His answer, "I want to remind you that divorce is a capital sin." I went to see him for spiritual and emotional support, not legal advise. 😡

The pedo/christian complex…

Isn’t that exactly what the present administration is doing to the Epstein victims?

Republican CONGRESSMEN wrote to the judge asking for leniency for pedophile Dennis Hastert

I don’t understand why anyone still believes in religion

Sorry to say, abuse will warp their lives, even if it's "forgotten."

'Forgive and forget' is intended to work within a system whose principles include uprightness and a means of repenting when you violate these principles. Requiring 'forgive and forget' of victims absent repentance of perpetrators yields asymmetric dominance, rather than spherical uprightness.

Yeah fuck that!

The problem with most religions, they remove personal responsibility. As long as you repent and put some cash in the basket, you're good to go.

Separation of church and state,aren't pedophile Republicans who claim to Christians enough,without adding indoctrinated Christian pedophile's as well.

#Religions use their man-made rules for membership to control their 'flock'. Whatever they say goes, if you want to be a good 'follower'. All religions take from their followers and give little to nothing in return except #illusions that contradict #reality. I once followed men. I now follow JC.

To Mars with Patriarchal Classism Fairy Sky Daddy Death Cult Mythology

I am so grateful for ProPublica. Nobody seems to have the guts to go against fake Jesus.

THIS^ Forgiveness is how you heal yourself, forgiving yourself for believing you caused the abuse, because every abused is told THEY did something or were something (You're so pretty I can't help myself...") to cause the abuser to abuse them. There should be NO forgiveness for the abusers.

I was never sexually abused (only verbally, mentally and emotionally), but my Christian Evangelical family LOVED to use that forgive and forget bullshit!

Any good parent should keep their kids away from the church

Find me a "Christian" church that DOESN'T do this...

Thank you for the amazing reporting you do. On this, FU*K - so sick of they hypocrisy

They are the main characters abusing their wives and sexually abusing children, all children and they hide behind their bibles.

No one - Not one should ever dishonor their personal dignity by thinking some religious prig is telling them they are not as valuable or respectable as another - Just saying

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And punching bag for hormonal outbursts

It's not just one church. There are thousands like them in the US and Canada.

Charges were up to the wife/mom and I don't know what she chose to do, but I never saw that guy again.

Pedophile protectors in positions of power. Betcha they voted red as well.

Y'all haven't read any of the Marquis de Sade. Half his stuff is true stories about sexual abuse in the church in the 18th century.

Religion is a licence to harm under the guise of spiritual enlightenment. If I as a woman were under a rapists attack I would pump them full of lead & take my chances with the jury.

#ChristiaNaziNationalist rules...IF IT BLEEDS IT BREEDS. Old testament rapist rules.

Another disgusting finding of abuse by men

We never forget.

Why title it paper trail, and not trail of used tissues?

Of course. They feel women and girls are worthless

Was talking about this sort of thing with my roommate (obliquely) the other day. About how it’s toxic forms of Christianity that act like saying, “Sorry” is an automatic clean slate, no matter how evil the sin, or how many times somebody commits the exact same sin over-and-over again.

More pedophilia surfaces. It's not just limited to Fred's little orange boy. Time for some societal introspection? My wife committed suicide a few years ago after being raped by her father repeatedly when she was a child. She never overcame the harm. Will our nation ever put an end to this activity?

Religion is a safe haven for abusers.

There is NO forgetting after that king of trauma. You learn how to live your life. But you NEVER forget. Period full stop. The victim shaming needs to stop and the perpetrators NEED to be in jail.

I was a child too, as well as a victim

All religions are cults

Where does the 'forget' part come from? It's not in the Bible. In fact, Jesus seems to suggest keeping a tally. He makes it clear there's limits on forgiveness.

LOL you don’t get it. I’ve never read deuteronomy. I don’t care what it says. Who does?

Will @propublica.org assign a journalist to report on what appears to be a similar situation at a mosque in Minnesota? @alphanewsmn.bsky.social share.google/7vjVkdEgpqQc...

Part of the Transcript from the Trial & Conviction of a CULT RAPIST. Because his church has an INTERNAL 'FORGIVENESS' PROCESS, this sick lunatic thinks he's been ABSOLVED of any wrongdoing. Common internal treatment of child abusers (and other criminals) leaves the them OUT THERE to ABUSE AGAIN.😡

www.propublica.org/series/forgi...

All religions are based on A LIE: there are NO GODS. Churches too often turn into CULTS. They CONTROL MINDS and BODIES. Their aims: POWER, INFLUENCE -and MONEY. It's A RACKET.

Everyone should watch the drama-documentary which is the movie "Spotlight." This exposed the church's cover-up of child abuse by Catholic Priests. (6% of priests were/are pedophiles. It may well be the same in many other vocations where children are vulnerable.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlig...

Because dealing with it in the right way might cut into the money coming in. Protecting mere women and children vs hoarding cash? The money always wins.

Same happened in JW cult

THE church? Just the one? I think you need to keep counting.

It's time America has a serious discussion about our religious problem. This happens far too commonly in every denomination.

Such 'preachers' always know.

Conservatives are just abusers and pedophiles all up. Conservative "Christians" are the worst of them. It's why I became atheist. I had to grow up in a Southern Baptist hellhole, and none of those people were ever "godly". Just evil draping themselves in false morality.

why are there zionist trolls all over the place?

Burn it tf to the ground.

No more clergy-penitent privilege. No more ignoring the UN Rights of the Child. No more private schools/foster care/adoption. This country needs a complete fucking overhaul for our children, and religious freedom needs to be reeled back in!!!! 😡

Why no "forgive and forget" energy when she REACTS to abuse and kills a mfker🤷🏽‍♀️

Sounds like a typical mantra for all control cults

The stronger the faith the closer the devil 😈

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My friend found a magazine in her house. Young girls, and she had two daughters. She went to her pastor. She was told it was her fault for not having enough sex for her husband. Men require sex at least every 9 days. She filed for divorce.

I'd forgive myself after eliminating the abuser.

There’s a great book, based in my home town and a true story , about a girl abused by a priest. They just moved him around and it was considered her fault. Even her mother looked at priests like rock stars. “Benita, prey for me”

It disgusts me how children are treated in this country!

Surely it's the drag artists who abuse children? No? #sarcasm (just in case)

We have a local story that is very similar.

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At first I thought it was about the abuse in Rotherham.

Religion is a over 2k year old scam invented by man , and it's tax free

If Walmart and Amazon executives were abusing children sexually and the company kept it secret and just moved the pedo to another branch. The people when they found out, would burn Walmart to the ground and you know that's true America! So why do Christians in America, get a free pass to abuse?

Only the Catholic Church has fucked more children than pedifile trump

There seems to be a pattern driven not only by the accessible nature of congregations, but it seems like religion itself is driving these sick people further into their depravity, as if the prohibition itself excites them—the sin.

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A man was convicted of abusing girls in "his church." Who's Church? If a Man claims to Owns Your Church it isn't GODS Church.

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These people should be in prison.

The GOP religious fanatics

You just described every single church

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As a child abuse survivor- children/victims are always made to protect the family, carrying the burden of maintaining optics for the good of the institution. Regardless if its family institution or church institution. It's a shameful secret the victim maintains while adults get the luxury of denail

TAX THE CHURCHES.

Another element in the dramatic decline in U.S. church attendance.