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Or, really, they are Christians: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0145213424003363-gr1.jpg https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0145213424

• like_any_other 1y ago
  A study limited to organized religious institutions, in a country where, of all religions, Christians are the overwhelming majority, found that most of the abuse occurred in Christian institutions? What a shock. It even omits how many of the respondents were from which religion (despite including such a breakdown for respondent age), so we can't work out per-capita numbers. But despite trying very hard to work backwards from a conclusion, the study is not entirely useless - it contains two pieces of actual information: it reported that 0.4% were sexually abused by an adult or leader in a religious institution, and that boys were 8x more likely to be abused than girls. So we can conclude that children are 10x more likely to be abused by a public school teacher [1], and that homosexuals are 8x more likely to abuse than heterosexuals. [1] An earlier survey of 4,340 adults examining sexual attitudes and experiences reported that 4.1 percent of respondents had a physical sexual experience with a teacher. - https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/report.pdf https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/rschstat/research/pubs/mis... page 18
  • ath3nd 1y ago
    Nah, the study shows there is a reason there is a whole wiki page for all the cases of abuse by the church. It's an epidemic, enough to see a correlation and stereotype that priests are the most likely offender. It's even in pop culture, when you think of a child abuser, who do you think of: a priest, right? I wanna dig into studies about conservatives which also are major child abusers. Maybe the people with a conservative faith and a conservative political stance have a big overlap, there must be studies for that. I will do the research and get back to you.