Fundamentalist Pastor fired in Scandal

[JustaServant]

Apparently there are statistics which suggest that people involved with various non Catholic denoms are involved in just as many scandals of all varieties as are Catholics…sadly for all varieties of Christians.

The Catholic Church- one billion people worldwide, hundreds of thousands of priests.
Number of pediphile priests-?

American fundamentalism-hundreds of thousands nationwide, thousands of preachers.
Number of pediphile preachers-?

Do the math.


The fact is IFB churches are a smaller minority when compared to the Catholic Church. The fact they have so many pervs in thier midst reveals something very wrong with the nature of the whole fundamentalist movement.
Sexual abuse is about power and control. These insecure “men of God” need to constantly stroke thier egos or they will collapse. I’ve seen it.

 

[Elizium23]

Please watch your terminology. The scandal discussed in this thread is not pedophilia, nor is the Catholic sexual abuse scandal about pedophilia, as has been mentioned before.

 

[manualman]

The point is the pastor was fired. How many priests were “fired” as compared to the ones who were simply transferred and allowed to continue to act as a priest because it leaves an “indelible mark on the soul,”??

This part of your post is a reasonable question that deserves addressing.

I think it’s important to recognize that the vast majority of the transfer and reassign events in the catholic scandal cannot be reasonably characterized the way you did here. It may be a valid (if hard to prove) accusation that some of the bishops in question were more worried about the PR damage than the victims. But apart from circumstances where a bishop was either guilty of illicit sexual practices himself or was personally covering for a buddy, most ‘reassignments’ were made after what appears to have been a good faith effort to get that priest counseling and treatment. At the time most of this occurred, sexual predators weren’t seen the way they are today. Their behavior was seen as a personal sin, not the end result of a long and calamitour degredation of moral character. This faulty view was NOT unique to catholic bishops, but prevalent throughout society. In many cases, this course was recommended to the bishops by secular psychiatrists for example (a serious abrogation of the bishop’s own responsibility, IMO). You can even see it in the media of the day. Not long ago, I was folding laundry and the TV was playing an old rerun of the 80’s show “Family Ties.” In the episode (missed the name) an old family friend conducted obvious grooming and then made a pass at the teenager girl of the family. She eventually got the guts to tell her parents and the resolution of the show was that they hooked the guy up with a counselor! This just demonstrates the prevailing mentality of the day was NOT limited to catholic bishops, but was widely misunderstood throughout society.

In short, the problem of sexual predation is a society-wide issue and the ongoing attempts to shoehorn it into “other people’s problem” status only prevents us from dealing with it as a culture. It’s tempting to make priests or preachers or school teachers into boogeymen we can despise since they are so much worse than we are. But we won’t reduce the rate of sexual abuse until we confront the REAL causes, which are the ongoing reduction of human sexuality to a narcisstic exercise in self induglence in our culture.

 

[JustaServant]

At the pastor’s meeting at FBCH yesterday, interim pastor Eddie Lapina confirmed a grand jury would be handing down indictments against Schaap very soon. He indicated that the church was taking statements from victims so that the church could protect itself in legal matters sure to come up later, and someone asked if the church was going to reach out to the people who were hurt to minister to them. Lapina answered about the ways they were ministering to the hurt people in this situation and that specifically they were paying for the abuse victim’s family to get counselling.

So much for a 54 year old man’s “affair” with a 16 year old girl.

 

[JustaServant]

Jack Schaap of First Baptist Hammond Facing 10 Years in Prison for Teen Affair

Jack Schaap, former pastor of First Baptist Church of Hammond in Indiana, has signed a plea agreement in the U.S. District Court in Hammond admitting his relationship with a young woman when she was just 16. Schaap was charged with inappropriate behavior and taking a minor across state lines for the purpose of sex, and may be facing up to 10 years in prison.

Read more at global.christianpost.com/news/jack-schaap-of-first-baptist-hammond-facing-10-years-in-prison-for-teen-affair-81885/#0bRi6Fk3crisxs1r.99

Hopefully this will be the end of this cult in Indiana.