For just a moment, I’d like to examine the context in which these conversations are taking place.
Here in America, white Christian culture is ensnared in a severe, destabilizing identity crisis. Rampant, epidemic pedophilia was the spark that lit the fuse. Like dynamite, white Christian identity has exploded again and again, for ni…
For just a moment, I’d like to examine the context in which these conversations are taking place.
Here in America, white Christian culture is ensnared in a severe, destabilizing identity crisis. Rampant, epidemic pedophilia was the spark that lit the fuse. Like dynamite, white Christian identity has exploded again and again, for nigh on 40 years. The lethal fallout spreads in all directions, dropping like bombs on one innocent “outsider” group after another.
As they say, we can’t cure disease, by treating symptoms. Whether it’s a physical disease, like cancer, or social dis-ease, the cure begins by naming it, then identifying its source, then stopping the spread by containing it or removing it from the body politic. The source of dis-ease in this country, is white Christian culture. Nearly 90% of those convicted of sexually abusing children, are white men.
Americans have always been plagued by puritanical views on sexual intercourse. By puritanical, I mean the dictionary definition: rigid, unbending, harsh, intolerant, and unforgiving.
After 400 years, these puritanical views on sex and intercourse were so entrenched in American culture, most people thought they were normal, natural, innate, biological – universal. However, in white Christian culture, they’d become an identity. Even now, perhaps more than ever, white Christians identify themselves by their biological sex, and performing the roles assigned that sex.
And then, in 1985, something changed. Something so, drastic, so unexpected, so horrific, and so shocking, it was almost unbelievable. Data and statistics left no doubts and no way out: Nearly 90% of those convicted were white men. Without question, this was a white Christian dis-ease. Biology, DNA, genetics, evolution could not account for this phenomenon. Culture, and only culture, could explain it. Something was wrong terribly, terribly wrong in white Christian culture.
The identity crisis began in 1985, when reports of boys molested by Catholic priests and employees began surfacing. It was soon clear, that pedophilia was an epidemic in white Christian institutions. For the next 37 years, revelations have been stacking up, one after another. It is far from over.
In 1991, a major five-part investigation entitled "Scouts Honor" on sex abuse in the Boy Scouts of America, a Christian youth organization for boys, was released.
In 2002, investigative journalists at the Boston Globe published over 300 stories about the Catholic clergy’s sexual abuse of children, mostly boys, as young as 4.
In 2019, it was revealed that the Southern Baptist church had also been protecting pedophiles for decades. More than 700 documented cases of children (mostly boys) left in the church’s care had been sexually abused. Today, many of these Baptist pedophiles are still working with children.
In 2020, the Boy Scouts of America, filed for bankruptcy. More than 88,000 boy scouts had been molested by scout leaders. Many boys had been molested for years, beginning at age 10 when they joined the boy scouts.
By 2021, the Catholic church had identified an estimated 330,000 children who were victims of sex abuse committed by more than 3,000 priests and other church employees. Over 80% of the victims were boys.
I repeat this again, nearly 90% of those convicted of sexually abusing children, are white men.
For white Christians, the depth of cognizant dissonance is unfathomable. The assault on white Christian’s identity is brutally painful.
Rampant pedophilia is the context – the stage, the courtroom - in which these conversations about gender identity are taking place. There will be no fair hearing, no kindness, no empathy and no reason on a stage as foul as this one.
How does a group of people united by their religious identity, justify, reconcile, explain, or cope with hundreds of thousands of children who were sexually abused while in their care?
White Christians have coped with unchecked pedophilia in their midst, the same way they coped with slavery and racism – denial, avoidance, projection, distraction, deflection, gaslighting, rage, propaganda, intimidation, and violence.
And Bait and Switch. White Christian power depended on keeping people unified. White Christians needed a new identity, a cover, a mask. They were quickly re-united under the banner of the Moral Majority, an arm of the Republican Party.
White Christian leaders, particularly white evangelical leaders, began using the Republican Party to deflect attention away from themselves. Like the myth of the “Lost Cause” Christian leaders began manufacturing and marketing myths. From the welfare queen and her limousine, to today’s liberal pedophile rings, the gay agenda, conspiracy theories, QAnon, fake news, transgender sports and bathrooms controversy and Christian persecution – manufactured propaganda, deflects attention away from the unchecked epidemic of pedophilia infecting white Christian culture - and the Republican Party.
Government did not fail the people. The leaders of white Christian institutions failed white Christians.
I wondered how long it would take Walter to appeal on behalf of children. Sure enough, Walter moved there – fast. Unfortunately, this is the number one symptom of the deep, unresolved epidemic of pedophilia in white Christian culture.
Before I sign off, I am obliged to say this was not my idea. I had no idea this was even a thing. As a rural liberal my life is filled with white Christian conservatives. At first, I was in disbelief, but my white Christian, ultra-conservative friends refused to allow me to remain there. Slowly but surely, they helped me see what was happening inside their culture. Their reason? I am not a Christian or a Republican, and it was not safe for me and my family not to know.
I am very interested in learning other people’s opinions, views and experience.
For just a moment, I’d like to examine the context in which these conversations are taking place.
Here in America, white Christian culture is ensnared in a severe, destabilizing identity crisis. Rampant, epidemic pedophilia was the spark that lit the fuse. Like dynamite, white Christian identity has exploded again and again, for nigh on 40 years. The lethal fallout spreads in all directions, dropping like bombs on one innocent “outsider” group after another.
As they say, we can’t cure disease, by treating symptoms. Whether it’s a physical disease, like cancer, or social dis-ease, the cure begins by naming it, then identifying its source, then stopping the spread by containing it or removing it from the body politic. The source of dis-ease in this country, is white Christian culture. Nearly 90% of those convicted of sexually abusing children, are white men.
Americans have always been plagued by puritanical views on sexual intercourse. By puritanical, I mean the dictionary definition: rigid, unbending, harsh, intolerant, and unforgiving.
After 400 years, these puritanical views on sex and intercourse were so entrenched in American culture, most people thought they were normal, natural, innate, biological – universal. However, in white Christian culture, they’d become an identity. Even now, perhaps more than ever, white Christians identify themselves by their biological sex, and performing the roles assigned that sex.
And then, in 1985, something changed. Something so, drastic, so unexpected, so horrific, and so shocking, it was almost unbelievable. Data and statistics left no doubts and no way out: Nearly 90% of those convicted were white men. Without question, this was a white Christian dis-ease. Biology, DNA, genetics, evolution could not account for this phenomenon. Culture, and only culture, could explain it. Something was wrong terribly, terribly wrong in white Christian culture.
The identity crisis began in 1985, when reports of boys molested by Catholic priests and employees began surfacing. It was soon clear, that pedophilia was an epidemic in white Christian institutions. For the next 37 years, revelations have been stacking up, one after another. It is far from over.
In 1991, a major five-part investigation entitled "Scouts Honor" on sex abuse in the Boy Scouts of America, a Christian youth organization for boys, was released.
In 2002, investigative journalists at the Boston Globe published over 300 stories about the Catholic clergy’s sexual abuse of children, mostly boys, as young as 4.
In 2019, it was revealed that the Southern Baptist church had also been protecting pedophiles for decades. More than 700 documented cases of children (mostly boys) left in the church’s care had been sexually abused. Today, many of these Baptist pedophiles are still working with children.
In 2020, the Boy Scouts of America, filed for bankruptcy. More than 88,000 boy scouts had been molested by scout leaders. Many boys had been molested for years, beginning at age 10 when they joined the boy scouts.
By 2021, the Catholic church had identified an estimated 330,000 children who were victims of sex abuse committed by more than 3,000 priests and other church employees. Over 80% of the victims were boys.
I repeat this again, nearly 90% of those convicted of sexually abusing children, are white men.
For white Christians, the depth of cognizant dissonance is unfathomable. The assault on white Christian’s identity is brutally painful.
Rampant pedophilia is the context – the stage, the courtroom - in which these conversations about gender identity are taking place. There will be no fair hearing, no kindness, no empathy and no reason on a stage as foul as this one.
How does a group of people united by their religious identity, justify, reconcile, explain, or cope with hundreds of thousands of children who were sexually abused while in their care?
White Christians have coped with unchecked pedophilia in their midst, the same way they coped with slavery and racism – denial, avoidance, projection, distraction, deflection, gaslighting, rage, propaganda, intimidation, and violence.
And Bait and Switch. White Christian power depended on keeping people unified. White Christians needed a new identity, a cover, a mask. They were quickly re-united under the banner of the Moral Majority, an arm of the Republican Party.
White Christian leaders, particularly white evangelical leaders, began using the Republican Party to deflect attention away from themselves. Like the myth of the “Lost Cause” Christian leaders began manufacturing and marketing myths. From the welfare queen and her limousine, to today’s liberal pedophile rings, the gay agenda, conspiracy theories, QAnon, fake news, transgender sports and bathrooms controversy and Christian persecution – manufactured propaganda, deflects attention away from the unchecked epidemic of pedophilia infecting white Christian culture - and the Republican Party.
Government did not fail the people. The leaders of white Christian institutions failed white Christians.
I wondered how long it would take Walter to appeal on behalf of children. Sure enough, Walter moved there – fast. Unfortunately, this is the number one symptom of the deep, unresolved epidemic of pedophilia in white Christian culture.
Before I sign off, I am obliged to say this was not my idea. I had no idea this was even a thing. As a rural liberal my life is filled with white Christian conservatives. At first, I was in disbelief, but my white Christian, ultra-conservative friends refused to allow me to remain there. Slowly but surely, they helped me see what was happening inside their culture. Their reason? I am not a Christian or a Republican, and it was not safe for me and my family not to know.
I am very interested in learning other people’s opinions, views and experience.