5 ms·
Celibacy imho plays a significant role in this. In other churches, you can get normal people to join, because they can still live relatively normal lives, get m
by ajsnigrutin 5y ago
Celibacy imho plays a significant role in this. In other churches, you can get normal people to join, because they can still live relatively normal lives, get married, have kids, etc.
With celibacy, you immediatly dismiss all people who wish to live relatively "normal" lives, and get a lot more outcasts into the organization.
Add to this a relatively easy access to children, the higher ups giving protection to criminals, and you get where we are now.
- SZJX 5y agoCelibacy might have played a role, though I doubt if the logic is that it "attracts outcasts". If somebody made up their mind to be celibate regardless of whether he is a part of the church or not, I don't think joining the church would predispose them to enacting more abuses on the children. On the contrary, I would say that the effect could be that it places an unreasonable restriction on "non-outcast" people who otherwise would have wanted to have sex "normally", but were forced to not do so, at least out in the open, when they join the church. Then, their immediate and most obvious choice becomes turning to the children, as you mentioned. This is what I find unreasonable about this blanket celibacy requirement.