Again, I ask myself how a decent moral person can remain part of a church that is so utterly bankrupt morally? Similarly, why do politicians continue to fawn and give deference to high clerics who have been part of a world wide criminal conspiracy? Is it really that frightening to let go of brainwashing that one received as a child? And as with the author of the column, why are journalist so afraid to take on such an evil empire?
Most of us, and in overwhelming numbers, are reared to some vague idea that the clergy are somehow better people, more honorable people, more trustworthy people than the common lot of mankind. The recognition that they are, in fact, amongst the most poorly educated and corrupt class of men in society is a difficult paradigm shift.
But that paradigm shift is underway and, because the Internet leaves most of us no way to hide from reality, it is happening rapidly. Good. I can’t help feeling bad for those poor trusting fools who invested their life and confidence in their church and at the last got kicked in the groin by the very predators who exploited them, but I am happy when I learn that a church has locked its doors once for all.