Pedophilia Irish Style

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Originally Posted by jinx

What the crap? Why????

Well, I can't really say for sure about the Jewish congregation, but for the Christians, it goes something like this: one of the very basic rules is that you must not do anything that would cause another to stumble (commit a sin) and/or weaken their faith in God, even if it's not a problem for you. Like, you don't drink in front of the alcoholic, even though you yourself are not an alcoholic. So if you're doing it right, the result is that people view themselves as role models and hold themselves to a higher standard.

If you're doing it wrong, then when a scandal arises, there is a desire among some to keep it hush-hush and within the congregation, because an outsider might take the scandal as evidence that this whole God business must be crap, because look at the terrible things his followers do--as, indeed, people tend to do. Of course scandals inevitably come out anyway, and now you've got the added tarnish of hypocrisy, when what they really should have done in the beginning is hold up the sinner as an example of a sinner, something the congregation, being Godly people, clearly won't tolerate.

Anyway, that's another reason the parents take the hush money, aside of course from the delicious money aspect of it.