This report scared me because it had the word Baptist in it. If you think this kind of culture does not exist in our own denomination, you have your head in the sand. It exists in our denomination. It may not be as wide spread as in the Fundamentalist Baptist Network, but it is there.
The author is alluding to this report, which documents widespread sexual abuse in Independent Fundamentalist Baptist churches. Part of the problem, I imagine, is the commonplace cult defense that “the world” doesn’t understand them and hates them; people who grow-up listening to that are prone to immediately rejecting reports of abuse.
More broadly, people who think everything went bad when a talking snake tricked a gullible woman into stealing a bad piece of fruit — and here in the south, there are a lot of people who believe exactly that — simply don’t see the world as it actually is; literally, they live in a shoebox-sized world where the fantasy is constantly reinforced.