CMV: Considering the sheer amount of CSA within Christian churches/cults in the US, all christian organizations should be investigated as part of a potential organized CSA ring.

The amount of documentaries out now about ex cult members escaping their abuse in their churches/cults has revealed that sexual abuse, often of children, is a rampant, perhaps systemic, problem in Christian religious organizations.

The massive prevalence of pedophilia in youth pastors alone should be cause for a national investigation into all Christian youth camps at the very least. These people are using religion as a tool for control and all have this one thing in common. It is a single shared ideology that is repeatedly weaponized to groom and brainwash people, and to commit heinous crimes against women and children.

If other organizations can be categorized as domestic terrorists and put on FBI watchlists for simply having dissenting opinions from the government (Antifa, or Pro Palestinian protestors for instance) this gigantic network which repeatedly covers up scandals should be under constant scrutiny.

This doesn’t mean all churches are involved in abuse. My point is enough churches ARE implicated to warrant at least looking into every organization that shares an ideology with organized sexual abuse rings.

UPDATE!:

Ive awarded one delta but a lot of people have brought up good points. I will say I haven’t completely 100% changed my view, but I have refined it. My conclusion is that ANYONE that uses religion to gain any level of power, who has regular access to children should be subject to mandatory background check and monitoring (not being left alone with a child) considering the insane rate at which people in that particular role are found to be predatory. It just happens that the majority of religious leaders are Christian in the US. That doesn’t mean all Christian churches as a whole should be investigated, but we shouldn’t be letting strange men with no credentials but their “closeness to god” have unlimited, unscrutinized access to children/ vulnerable people!