Why are so many elites also pedophiles? Especially in (((Hollywood))).
The DoJ found in 2006 that public school teachers are 100 times more likely to diddle kids than priests, so it's not vows of celibacy. If anything, there a significant number of hippie sex pests who joined the seminary (ugh, the Church's name for priest school did not age well) in the 1960's to dodge the 'Nam draft, coupled with the sexual revolution and the hijacking of Vatican II by liberals. This hypothesis is supported by thr fact that the cases of reported priest misconduct spiked in the '70s and '80s.Perhaps it's ex-elite but Far as Catholic church goes my theory is it's a self inflicted pathology thanks to priests being forbidden from getting married which resulted in a lot of sex pests/gays/pedos/etc. becoming a priest as an easy way out of having "Why aren't you married yet Jimmy?"
Imagine a political office is open. Say president of France or mayor of New York. Lots of fingers in lots of pies. In the cutthroat world of politics, who would you sponsor if you were powerful enough to have more power than anyone else to influence who wins (even if that power isn't 100%)?
Would you sponsor someone who shares your ideals? (laughable)
Would you give it as a favor and hope that they're loyal to you?
Would you entrust it someone who seemed to have been loyal for the last 5 years?
Or would you place a Macron or Clinton type guy, a guy fully in the pocket with more secrets and enough Epstein type blackmail against them to make it impossible to operate independantly from you and if they ever do, even if you release just a little you can take away all their power?
Pedophiles make good stooges. And much like criminal organizations, if you're not dirty, they can't trust you. If they don't have blackmail on you, they can't control you.
As for priests, besides the reason @Tovarisz has given, also note that once organisations become corrupted, working there will disgust non-corrupted people (or end up corrupting them too).
I think there may be some pressure where having everything might lead someone to want things that are illegal to have, as wanting to experience the naked evidence of their own power. But I think the other relation is stronger; that being corrupt and dirty is part of what helps people rise (to live a kind of gilded cage life).
The nam excuse doesn't fly in Europe though. The sexual revolution also largely removed a lot of stigma and taboo around sex so it makes sense that a lot of people started to speak about being abused and/or some abusers got too cocky.The DoJ found in 2006 that public school teachers are 100 times more likely to diddle kids than priests, so it's not vows of celibacy. If anything, there a significant number of hippie sex pests who joined the seminary (ugh, the Church's name for priest school did not age well) in the 1960's to dodge the 'Nam draft, coupled with the sexual revolution and the hijacking of Vatican II by liberals. This hypothesis is supported by thr fact that the cases of reported priest misconduct spiked in the '70s and '80s.
Furthermore, there were bishops who shuffled around the offending priests, and at that time it was widely believed that pedos could be "cured" with therapy.
At the end of the day: yeah, as a practicing Catholic, I acknowledge that the abuse scandal was severe. But like teachers or coaches, the nonces in collars did so because they had positions of power where they wouldn't be questioned, and were abetted by a lack of accountability.
The church cover up was unacceptable for an organization that mandates confession of sin.The DoJ found in 2006 that public school teachers are 100 times more likely to diddle kids than priests, so it's not vows of celibacy. If anything, there a significant number of hippie sex pests who joined the seminary (ugh, the Church's name for priest school did not age well) in the 1960's to dodge the 'Nam draft, coupled with the sexual revolution and the hijacking of Vatican II by liberals. This hypothesis is supported by thr fact that the cases of reported priest misconduct spiked in the '70s and '80s.
Furthermore, there were bishops who shuffled around the offending priests, and at that time it was widely believed that pedos could be "cured" with therapy.
At the end of the day: yeah, as a practicing Catholic, I acknowledge that the abuse scandal was severe. But like teachers or coaches, the nonces in collars did so because they had positions of power where they wouldn't be questioned, and were abetted by a lack of accountability.