Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.propublica.org/article/sexual-abuse-old-apostolic-lutheran-church-minnesota
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Someone once asked me why I had a problem with religion. My answer was “I don’t have a problem with religion, I have a problem with a lot of people who claim to be religious”
You can never test a holy man to be holy, but you can trust an unholy man to be unholy.