It's true that many Christian organisations do a lot of good work – but so do a lot of secular organisations. Humanity and charity are not the prerogatives of religious belief. For example, I'm not a Christian (surprise, surprise!) but I've sponsored children in the third world for many years.

Jim is right in what he says. Christians have to face the fact that huge amounts of child abuse has been perpetrated in the name of Christ and, no matter how much you might say that these people are/were not true Christians, it doesn't alter that fact that they use Christianity to justify their actions, to their victims, to society and to themselves. This has often happened with collusion from church hierarchies – right up to the present day the Catholic church has been protecting paedophiles from the law. Cardinal Cormack O'Connor has himself been guilty of this.

What I have sought to point out is that Christianity is still being used to justify child abuse and if Christians believe that this is wrong, they should actively try to stop it happening in their midst – as the secular authorities try (not always successfully, of course) to stop it happening in society in general. Stop trying to justify it or pretend it doesn't happen - get off your arses and do something about it when it's happening right under your noses.