Indeed. Never leave your kid alone with a priest. I was that kid.

You could expand beyond just Catholics

Just one example

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/faqs-sexual-abuse-southern-baptist/

Recently had to file a report at a state-run insurance and they have a dedicated button on their webpage for "sexualized violence in churches".

I do wonder, is it the churches themselves that are insured that way? Because surely the victims get paid from the lawsuit, not from insurance.

But either way, that is fucking harrowing that they have a dedicated button for it.

I get that it's probably just a matter of "we offer insurance for this, so we'll have a button for it". But even that someone in a government-near position decided "kids get raped in churches so often, and we expect more cases to happen or be uncovered, so we should add an insurance for that to our portfolio", that concept just does not fit into my brain.

Any place where individuals hold a position of trust and authority is going to attract all kinds of abusers.

Kids have a blast at drag shows.

Oh, really?

•music too loud

•choke on rhinestone that flew off during dancing

•crushed between two sweaty drag queens

•drugs sometimes

Oh, wait, you said safer. Yeah.

Well if dragshows were populated by powerful people getting heaps of tax free dollars and an opaque system that hides any accountability then kids would no longer be safe there.

Genuinely one of the kindest gentlest most wholesome environments I've been in.

Not that my experience is super broad or representative, but, maybe because there's so much misunderstanding, they're particularly patient and warm.

Would definitely bring my kid to a drag show before leaving him alone with a priest.

Not to mention that no one brings their kids to drag shows. But everyone takes their kid to church, and a lot of churches even have daycares attached where you can leave them all day.

Yes, I know.

However, I would prefer them to be at drag story time.

maybe not a maga drag/ conservative dragqueen, these do exist.

i think evangelicals, and probably mormon churchs hides more pedophelia, SA.

better of with MS rachel.

Because there's no pretender in drag show.

Welcome to the mids 2010s, may I take your coat? This was a very common thing to say, down to the word, and was posted everywhere for years since that was the peak of when the American right-wingers had temper tantrums over kids being around lgbtq+ people (mainly drag shows etc.).
This isn't a shower thought, it's just a popular opinion.

In other news, water is wet.

Words of wisdom, Lloyd. Words of wisdom.

Sprinkler thought, this is a no-brainer

Catholics are a pain in the ass... they got a magga cult (low key unnoticed lil cival war) but these evangicals are the issue. libturd as the catholics may be they are nothing like these evengicals... there are exceptions.

To be fair.... Catholics, the followers are not throwing their children to the pedophiles but the catholic church is a corporation... and capitalism sucks ass

God is dead but i wish it wasn't

I fucking hate religion

But can we have order in union with the natural world

Your opinions are a box. They put us there and they make us stand in their shaddow of their ambition which is their self imposed flagellation. Yes big daddy. It is all just one big Kink. Just monkey shit dude. Stupid shit all day every day.. this world is dumb

I mean they are so big you can't ignore them.

What do you all think happens at Catholic mass these days? It's been about 10 years since I've gone myself, but when I was a kid I just sat next to my parents for an hour, went through the service, and left after.

Maybe. Im betting not if you are talking per child hour of prescence. I mean if one thing happens to a kid at a drag show its going to blow the percentage off the roof.

that's a really hot take

This is quite the take