Quote from Fionn:
Toadfrog, you're dead right about the corrupting effect of institutional life.
"Toadfrog":
(1) People, and not only clergymen, are unendingly tolerant of people similar to themselves, who commit offenses against subordinates or people otherwise perceived as. (2) People with power, including Priests and Bishops, cannot be trusted to police themselves, and (3)The Church is a human institution, like other human institutions. Even assuming clergy persons are morally better than the rest of us (which I am willing to assume), they are not so much better than they.
Fionn, I don't follow your interpretation of what Toadfrog said. He only mentions institutions in a very general way. To take your point further to ludicrous conclusions, the institution of marriage should be condemned and abolished as the most corrupt of all human institutions as approx.85% of all sex / physical abuse of children is committed by members of the family circle.
Think of the implications of such a measure. That is, if you are capable of any rational thought at all.
Gerry