Posts Tagged sexual abuse

Sex.

Yup. It is that taboo word, especially if you are a member of the clergy! Religion teaches you to ‘control and curb’ your sexual desires and thus, in the process, to ‘please thy God’.

Hmmmm… Okay!

Anyways, as Wiki observes and I quote:

… most religions have seen a need to address the question of a “proper” role for sexuality in human interactions. Different religions have different codes of sexual morality, which regulate sexual activity or assign normative values to certain sexually charged actions or thoughts.

Now… I wonder why there are so many cases of rape and paedophilia among the clergies though. Aren’t clergies the ‘men of God’ and thus expected to practice some amount of … err… ‘decency’ and ‘virtue’?

Are you denying my claims that clergies turn out to be rapists and paedophiles much too often? Well… look at this, if you like. Mojoey, there, has taken up an effort of compiling the news (of abuse, mistrust and hypocrisy by the said ‘men of God’) that he has collected in the month of September alone. The number is 37. That’s more than 1 A DAY! And it’s not limited to those 37 instances- there’s definitely more…. much much more.

… and that is what got me thinking.

Why is it that so many clergymen seem to have a double life and standard? Does it stem from the impossible sexual suppressions that most religions promote or is it something else?

Did you answer ‘something else?’

Then, next question- WHAT IS THAT SOMETHING ELSE?

Enlighten me, s’il vous plait?