How much child abuse would you expect to occur in God’s true church on earth? Less than average? More than average? The same as average?“DP” wrote: Now — please — don’t try to twist my supplying those three links into a pretense that I’m minimizing the gravity of sexual abuse by clergy or members of any religious organization. (Some, I know, will do precisely that, nonetheless. I could almost write their comments for them, they’re so tiresomely predictable.). Sexual abuse is a horrific evil and a crime, no matter who the abuser is, whether he or she is or is not a Latter-day Saint. I simply do not find the claim persuasive, though, that Latter-day Saint churches are exceptionally dangerous places for children. So far as I can see, there seems to be little or no actual evidence to support such an accusation.
Is the amount of child abuse in the church any reflection on the truth of that church? These are the really difficult questions that it seems Dan is flippantly ignoring.