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In reply to the discussion: Do you know why Catholics put money in the collection plate at Sunday mass? [View all]wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)There have been major pedophile scandals amongst the Hare Krishnas, Mormons, the Amish, pretty much every Southern Evangelical group. Most Western religions are homophobic to the core. They behead gay people in soccer stadiums in Saudi Arabia. Hindu and Buddhist faiths are both deeply misogynistic. Look at all the gang rapes on buses in India. In Buddhism, being born female (like being born an animal) is a punishment for your past mistakes.
I'm not Catholic, so I don't have skin in this game, but I think pretending covering up for atrocities is just a Catholic thing is very, very naive.
Certainly you can say the more authoritarian and hierarchical an organisation is, the more likely it is to cover up for the fuck ups of the people at the top but that's certainly not a strictly Catholic phenomenon.