Board viewWhere are the Protestant Minister child abuse reports? (general)
posted by bibleprobe
, Mass., 04.24.2010
Where are the Protestant Minister child abuse reports?
I for one am sick and tired of all these one-sided reports on Catholic priests who have abused children. Let's be fair and start reading about the equal or even greater amount of abuse of children by Protestant clergy. 8 years of this one sided news reporting is enough... Any adult who abuses a child in my book is a monster. Also, why is there a COMPLETE lack of reporting on Muslim clergy and even Jewish clergy child molesters?
Jesus told us if you do such a thing it is better that an icredibly heavy mill stone be hung around your neck and you be flung into the sea. So you sick perverted wackoes out there who molest children; don't for one minute think you can use the typical homos-exual & pervert excuse that you are somehow doing the child a favor. Jesus won't buy that... Stop this sickness. Get some help and repent.
"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea"... Matthew 18:6
/s/ Steve @ BibleProbe.com
Echoes of Sodom and Gomorrah - Catholic & Protestant clergy alike
"We would be naïve and dishonest were we to say this is a Roman Catholic problem and has nothing to do with us because we have married and female priests in our church. Sin and abusive behavior know no ecclesial or other boundaries." Rt. Rev. William Persell, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, Good Friday Sermon, 2002.
There are 400,000 Catholic priests worldwide, and 1 billion Catholics.
In a statement, read out by Catholic Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi in September 2009, the Vatican (Catholic Holy See) stated "We know now that in the last 50 years somewhere between 1.5% and 5% of the Catholic clergy has been involved in sexual abuse cases," adding that this figure was comparable with that of other groups and denominations.
A Perspective on Clergy Sexual Abuse by Dr. Thomas Plante of Stanford University and Santa Clara University states that "available research suggests that approximately 2 to 5% of priests have had a sexual experience with a minor" which "is lower than the general adult male population that is best estimated to be closer to 8%".
Being an analyst myself, whenever someone gives me such a huge range, like between 1.5% - 5% I typically laugh at them. Sort of the same laugh I do when a so-called scientist says something stupid like between 1 - 2 billion years. Hello? In all 3 situations above you are basically telling us you "rolled the dice" to come up with the above figures. There is a HUGE difference between 1.5 - 5%, 2 - 5%, and 1 -2 billion years.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases
PUT IT IN PROSPECTIVE
Nobody knows how many Protestant denominations there are. Some of the articles cite figures of between 20,000 and 30,000, and others between 200 and a thousand. Ridiculous numbers like the examples above. Like the singular Catholic Church who has done a large amount of "coverups" of se-xual abuse by their clergy - it's safe to assume that an awful lot of similar "coverups" occurred within these 200-30,000 Protestant denominations that went unreported.
According to United Nations there were over 23,000 competing and often contradictory denominations world-wide (World Census of Religious Activities [U.N. Information Center, NY, 1989]). This was cited in Frank Schaeffer's book Dancing Alone (Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Press, 1994), p. 4. Schaeffer is Orthodox.
Citing the Oxford World Christian Encyclopedia, 1982: ". . . a projected 22,190 by 1985 . . . The present net increase is 270 denominations each year (five new ones a week)." {pp. 15-18}
Protestant Church Insurers Handle 260 Sex Abuse Cases a Year
InsuranceJournal.com
The three companies that insure the majority of Protestant churches in America say they typically receive upward of 260 reports each year of young people under 18 being sexually abused by Protestant clergy, church staff, volunteers or congregation members.
Report: Protestant Church Insurers Handle 260 Sex Abuse Cases a Year
By Rose French
June 18, 2007
The three companies that insure the majority of Protestant churches in America say they typically receive upward of 260 reports each year of young people under 18 being sexually abused by clergy, church staff, volunteers or congregation members.
The figures released to The Associated Press offer a glimpse into what has long been an extremely difficult phenomenon to pin down the frequency of sex abuse in Protestant congregations.
Religious groups and victims' supporters have been keenly interested in the figure ever since the Roman Catholic sex abuse crisis hit five years ago. The Catholic Church has revealed that there have been 13,000 credible accusations against Catholic clerics since 1950. 13,000 divided by its 400,000 priests - equals 3.25%. That's a disgustingly high figure. Yet remember the above figure that shows that child molestation among the "general adult male population that is best estimated to be closer to 8%".
Protestant numbers have been harder to come by and are sketchier because the denominations are less centralized than the Catholic church; indeed, many congregations are independent, which makes reporting even more difficult.
Some of the only numbers come from three insurance companies Church Mutual Insurance Co., GuideOne Insurance Co. and Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co.
Together, they insure 165,495 Protestant churches and worship centers for liability against child sex abuse and other sexual misconduct, mostly Protestant congregations but a few other faiths as well. They also insure more than 5,500 Protestant religious schools, camps and other organizations.
The companies represent a large chunk of all U.S. Protestant churches. There are about 224,000 in the U.S., according to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, although that number excludes most historically black denominations and some other groups, which account for several thousand congregations.
Church Mutual, GuideOne and Brotherhood Mutual each provided statistics on Protestant sex abuse claims to The Associated Press, although they did not produce supporting documentation or a way to determine whether the reports were credible.
The largest company, Church Mutual, reported an average of about 100 Protestant sex abuse cases a year involving minors over the past decade. GuideOne, which has about half the clients of Church Mutual, said it has received an average of 160 Protestant reports of sex abuse against minors every year for the past two decades.
Brotherhood Mutual said it has received an average of 73 reports of Protestant child sex abuse and other sexual misconduct every year for the past 15 years. However, Brotherhood does not specify which victims are younger than 18 so it is impossible to accurately add that to the total cases.
Reference: http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2007/06/18/80877.htm
Welcome to a collection of news reports on Protestant (meaning protest against the universal "Catholic" Church) Ministers who have sexually abused children:
ALL Protestant denominations - 838 Ministers
147 Baptist Ministers
251 "Bible" Church Ministers (fundamentalist/evangelical)
140 Anglican/Episcopalian Ministers
38 Lutheran Ministers
46 Methodist Ministers
19 Presbyterian Ministers
197 various Church Ministers
See exactly who and where these Protestant Ministers are at: http://www.reformation.com/
NOTE: Even within the Catholic Church, the most diverse forms of Catholicism, the Latin and Eastern Rite, share the same government, the same "religious organization uniting local congregations in a single legal and administrative body." In other words, Canon Law for the Eastern Rite and Canon Law for the Latin Rite come from the same single government, chaired by the same Vicar.
Below reference: http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/fastfacts/fast_facts.html#numcong
Q: How many denominational groups are there in the United States?
A: This is a very tough question, because it depends on how a denomination is defined. There were 217 denominations listed in the 2006 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. But there may well be other groups that function as a denomination but do not regard themselves as such. The single largest religious group in the United States is the Roman Catholic Church, which had 67 million members in 2005. The Southern Baptist Convention, with 16 million members, was the largest of the Protestant denominations. The United Methodist Church was the second-largest Protestant denomination with 8 million members. In third and fourth spots were the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as the Mormon church, with 6 million members, and the Church of God in Christ, a predominantly black Pentecostal denomination, with 5.5 million members.
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