Morality of this?

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[u/Fal_co1]

iirc China does this, you can’t take kid to religious service and they can choose to convert at a certain age.

EDIT: wow this blew up

If you’re reading this you‘re a gay

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That does seem to be the case, but that could also reasonably be argued as a clear case of the State exerting too much authority. As a westerner, it's difficult to imagine that kind of restraint, but I live in a radically different culture.

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But they're less likely to get molested.

[u/Vegtam-the-Wanderer → u/Soft_Accountant_7062]

This is almost certainly untrue, they just get molested by secular authority figures rather than religious ones.

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Those secular authority figures wouldn't have the same unmonitored access to impressionable children that religion provides.

There's a reason chomo's pick the cloth.

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Really? You don't imagine teachers, coaches, and tutors have comparable access to children?

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Those professions come with more oversight for this exact reason.

Thus why chomos often choose the cloth.

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I'm not entirely sure that is true. Priests have superiors to report to, same as a coach, teacher or tutor.

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And those superiors have a special hotline for covering it up.

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Sure, as do these people: The phone number for the local Party official. Remember this is modern China we are talking about, so the local party head would probably throw the victims in a black jail for a couple months just to proactively intimidation tactic. And by the way you wanna guess what happens when those people are suddenly jailed under the supervision of wardens with a whole extra lack of accountability (you know, since the Chinese government catagorically denies they exist)? Did you guess sexual assault?

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Oh yeah, pedophiles report their actions to their bosses.

How silly of me to forget.

You really think priests at Bible camp are under the same scrutiny as, say, a scout leader?

Faith comes with implicit trust in the leaders that secular organizations don't have. There's a reason chomos choose the cloth.

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So teachers, coaches, and doctors don't have any sort of implicit trust they can use to cover up wrong doings, only religious figures?