--"That is juggling with semantics Mike
The clergy has been abusing children, probably for centuries here in Ireland.
The church has utilised their authority "from a superior power base" to not only cover up the abuse, but to allow it to continue by passing on the abusers to other parishes, and when it has got out of hand they have moved on the offenders to African countries, where, apparently, abuse does not matter."--

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Sorry, Jim, but I think you are semantically confused, & playing the HumptyDumpty definitions game. The posters between your response to my last and this one of mine appear to agree that you are confusingly conflating two different categories, for the purpose, mainly, of working off scores & resentments against a particular branch of Xtianity, rather than addressing the topic of this thread, which is persecution of or by Christians of or by members of other faiths.

None of us is disagreeing with you about the iniquity of the abuses [in more than one sense] which you relate. But it is not mere semantic juggling to point out that you are making a category error in conflating this with the actual topic which this thread sets out to discuss. We have had numerous threads on the other matter also, where you have cogently made the points which you are endeavouring, erroneously, to interpolate here.

~M~