Bob Jones University told rape victims to repent and look for ‘root sin’ that caused their attack

[AtheistCrusader]

32. You introduced 'obligation', not me.

I suggested it as a viable/effective means of change, for specific circumstances such as the authoritarian top-down model of the RCC.

That is not an obligation.


I do maintain there is a moral cost to remaining a member in the 'hope of change from within', but that's not the same thing as demanding they leave. I just don't accept your handwaving of

"In no way do I think they are morally culpable for the decisions of the larger organization, particularly if they have absolutely no say in those decisions."

They have a say. Leaving is one way of having a say in how their money and their membership/credibility in the entity is spent politically. Remaining a member, and refusing to give them money is another way of partially accomplishing that. A local church splintering away, as in the case of the Australian pastor that married a same sex couple in defiance of church doctrine is yet another way. There are more ways.