Somehow as absolutely horrible as something is in reality, people are always able to find a way of making an absurd hyperbole around it.
There are ways of being appropriately harsh about this without denigrating and dismissing every other aspect of the Catholic church and the priests and lay people within it who are standing up against this and calling the hierarchy to account.
It's also not clear to me exactly how much worse the Catholic church was in this time frame when most of these events occurred than other institutions. It may have been, but how do we know? Others shouldn't be cocky without holding up their own groups to scrutiny.
what other institution could even come close, is there some other group that the Catholic church is in competition with? College sports organizations? They've had 2 high profile cases in the last decade, horrible. Lets say it's really bad and there are ten times more of these things going on that we don't know about and lets be generous to "the Church" and say every single case of abuse in the Church has been uncovered, the numbers still aren't close....at all.
I guess I also don't understand the attachment to the church...do you really think being a Catholic is the ONLY way to get to Jesus? That's what we were taught in S.Baptist circles (that Catholics don't play well with other Christian organizations)...but we were taught a lot sh**t about Catholics and only some of it ended up being true, is this one true too? Do you really think heaven is out of reach for you if you start going to Lutheren church to do your "Christianity"?
