The fact that child molestation is nearly double that in evangelical denominations than in the RCC is not being shouted from any roof tops. This story was extinguished.
That is the question I am posing, "Why did this not explode in the media the same way it exploded against the RCC ?"
It's not being extinguished.
The first thing you have to remember is that, in this day and age we live in, there are creeps and predators everywhere. Roman Catholicism, "non-Roman Catholicism", Judaism, Islam, everywhere.
While it's outrageous and diabolical, regardless of who does it or what religion they're representing, what makes the Roman Catholic abuses stand out so in the minds of the public is that they're the ones who have an institutional conspiracy to cover it up.
Victims are routinely paid off, told that they're going to go to Hell if they go against the Roman Catholic church, etc. And then, to make matters worse, the predator is sent to another church without telling the congregation what is being sent their way.
So the net result is that the wolf has just been taken out of one sheep pen and put into another with fresh meat.
We "non-Roman Catholics" don't have that. Because out churches are so much more decentralized and, in the case of Baptists and some non-denoms, autonomous, the problem is brought directly before the congrgation and dealt with.
The person is removed immediately from a leadership position and the church does everything they can to cooperate with the police.
So what it really boils down to is that the abuse is the same, but the reaction is different and that's why the two are perceived so differently.
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