I have a half baked theory about organized religion. The more silly the head gear the more whack the religion. Stalin made at least two mistakes. We all know the first one but imho the second one is that he did not crush the orthodox church until it was reduced to its elemental form. Hoxha did nothing wrong. When a guy like this is a shot-caller in your culture you have already failed. I loathe all organized religion but I feel like relatively speaking the roman catholics are the least bad. I consider roman catholics the ML party of christianity and the vatican is the vanguard. Sure they did a lot of evil stuff back in the day but If I look at the last 1000 years of christians I see them making incremental improvements as opposed to the orthodox wing which has slowly rotted on the vine. The current pope is arguably the best in its history.
Made this post because I just saw this:
The State Duma of the Russian Federation unanimously adopted the law aimed at prohibiting sex change.
Citizens who have already changed sex will be prohibited from adopting children, being their guardians or trustees, and their marriages will be annulled.
The law will come into force from the date of official publication. This was reported by the press service of the lower house of parliament on Friday, July 14.
The law prohibits any medical interventions, both surgical operations and the use of drugs aimed at forming primary or secondary sexual characteristics of the other sex in a person.
Assholes
they're authority figures in the community who get to decree when/which people get to have 'sanctioned' sex. sex abuse among priests is not due to unfulfilled libido (they literally can just fuck adults) it's their high community positions and lack of public accountability that attracts predators
You gonna tell me that if catholic priests were allowed to marry there would be less sexual abuse? Fuck off.
Yes power is often a factor in sexual abuse but in the orthodox church a priest has only the power of their position and the power of rest of the church is against pedophilia. In the catholic Church each peado priest has the entire church supporting and covering for them.
Peados join the catholic church because they know they can get support with their fucked up perversions. People who like sex don't join the chatholic church specifically because they cant have sex if they become a priest. That is where the lack of accountability come from not from the position of power.
Do orthodox priests abuse their power? for sure. Is the entire premise behind the church authoritarian? yeah. But there is no way they are as bad as the international ring of paedophiles known as the catholic church.
literally said the exact opposite but ok
yeah okay sure i'm sure if this guy's colleagues had gotten wind of him adopting dozens of kids to abuse they'd have turned him in!
sorry but if you want to talk about a church with actual structural limits on abuse you're going to have to talk about not having ordained clergy, congregational elections & independence--you know, fucking protestants