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Major Nikon

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1. When people are convinced they are fulfilling "gods' will" nothing else really matters
Tue Dec 11, 2018, 12:06 PM
Dec 2018

Any standard of ethics, law, or decency goes out the window.

That's how abortion doctor murders are harbored. That's how FLDS child rapists escape prosecution, sometimes indefinitely. That's how RCC priests are relocated, sometimes internationally, to avoid prosecution. That's how victims within some congregations are counseled against reporting crimes.

Religion makes it very easy to prey on the vulnerable, who often resort to religion to protect them against the very things they wind up getting victimized with in many cases. For this reason, religious authorities have a greater duty to protect their membership from these things as is the case with organizations like scouting. Instead in many cases they do everything they can to make sure "gods' law" trumps that of mere humans.

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