Why is it that most peadophiles are christians??Every time i look on the news another fucking priest has been arrested.

I'll bet most pedophiles are not Christians, because the world over, less than half the world are Christians. And the exploitation of kids, unfortunately, is large in all nations. Unfortunately, the Catholic priesthood (unwed men only) has an appeal for men who do not have a bent for traditional man-woman marriage. Unfortunately, pedophiles are often men who don't want to marry women and as priests, they can also meet kids. So, the priesthood is inviting to some who are pedophiles.

There are many wonderful human beings who are Catholic priests and work tirelessly for the good of all. They do not deserve to be stereotyped along with the few that exploit children or protect the exploiters with the outdated code of silence.

It`s the media they talk about them because it`s bigger news then some joe shmuck down the road.

There are alot more joe shmuck sickos then priests.

From my own experience working with pedophiles in the court system all the stats I have seen show they are not particular to one economic class, religion, race, or culture - the only thing noteable is that the vast majority of them are not homo-sexuals they are hetro-sexuals that is about the only generalization that can be made.

I think all orthodox religions would have a problem with pedophilia for the same reasons-religions that have organizations that keep things repressed and secretive attract the kind of people that have desires they feel need to be repressed and secretive. Gay people who are Catholics for example, taught to believe they are goinbg to hell for being gay, may think if they become Priests they can save their souls.

A clinical explanation I can give you as to the psychiatric profile of a pedophile in a religious setting works like this; they start off with a personality defect -usually present in childhood. They are exposed to sexual molestation, violence, dysfunctional behaviour and/or have a genetic predisposition to being violent or aggressive. Then when they get older and act out their desire to have sex with children what they are doing is denying they have aged themselves. Somewhere in their minds, they still identify with children because part of them does not want to think of themselves as an adult because that would mean they have turned into the same creature that traumatized them. Pedophiles, the vast majority of them anyways, do not see anything wrong with having sex with children. To them it is natural - they think all children have sex urges. Pedophiles are attracted to organized orthodox religions because they join thinking one of two things-either it will be a way to repress their desires or it could be they deliberately join these organizations such as the boy-scouts, priesthood, or say elementary school teachers, because they head to jobs that put them close to the prey they seek. Many are baby-sitters or will befriend parents of children and slowly gain their confidence.

I think this propsensity to molest children is like I said far more predominant in hetro-sexuals then gays and is much more common in men then women, but other then those two factors, to this day psychiatry and criminology are working on what social factors and what genetic factors may or may not play a role in the cultivation of pedophiles.

The Catholic Church and many other traditional fundamentalist religious organizations have great problems dealing with all issues flowing from sexual behaviour not just pedophilia. Trying to get religious organizations to adapt and take on open and healthy approaches to sexuality is not easy. Progressives in all religious groups are trying. We are all in the same boat in that manner.

I had my own ideas about why Catholic priests were abusing children. I honestly believe that if they were allowed to marry (or at least have sex freely), much of this problem would reduce. As most of us know, women don't play many roles in the church, which I think is an important factor in this. If you're growing older and you're absolutely banned from having any sexual encounters, some will go desperate and try to satisfy their urges little by little. Who's vulnerable and available? Children. Male children. It's like the cliche jail scenario where two men will try to "help" each other satisfy sexual urges, except the priest is an adult raping a child to quell his own urges. It might be enough to have the child touch your genetalia through your clothes; later it's enough to have the child touch and fondle you; later it's just enough to molest the child; it might be performing fellatio after that; etc. I'm not educated in pedophilia at all, but that's how I understand it happens, and obviously the Catholic Church is nothing more but a sleazy sex criminal network covertly moving sexually abusing priests from church to church without informing the congregants or authorities. The best first step to easing this sick problem of child abuse would be to let the priests have sex freely and without shame, and why not marry? As I understand it, the only reason they can't marry was because of some Dark Ages law that stopped the children of priests from inheriting the church wealth and power. That's religion for you.