It’s literally the perfect networking setup for pedophiles.
People confess the bad thoughts they have, which lets you find like minded people, you are given access to young children alone, are a trusted member of the community upon whom people have put their own hopes of salvation so when it is your word is against a child’s you are believed.
It’s been a racket for pedophiles probably as early as Paul, and by the second century CE you already have a satirist using the church as a plot device for where a pedophile goes to hide out after bribing his way out of prison for molesting a young boy, and a forged letter in Paul’s name being developed around then too which says:
Never accept any accusation against a presbyter except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
1 Timothy 5:19
It’s been around 2,000 years of being the place to go if you like young boys, and their access to the confessional made it easy to both identify victims and recruit peers.
It’s literally the perfect networking setup for pedophiles.
People confess the bad thoughts they have, which lets you find like minded people, you are given access to young children alone, are a trusted member of the community upon whom people have put their own hopes of salvation so when it is your word is against a child’s you are believed.
It’s been a racket for pedophiles probably as early as Paul, and by the second century CE you already have a satirist using the church as a plot device for where a pedophile goes to hide out after bribing his way out of prison for molesting a young boy, and a forged letter in Paul’s name being developed around then too which says:
It’s been around 2,000 years of being the place to go if you like young boys, and their access to the confessional made it easy to both identify victims and recruit peers.
Rotten to the core.
I would imagine those two or three witnesses are of the accused’s choosing as well