"Why don't more people know about this?"

Well, why didn't more people know about the existence of the Mafia previous to Joe Valachi's testimony before Senate? The CIA's involvement in drug trafficking? Police brutality? Climate change? Peak oil? Torture camps? Civilian casualties of drone strikes?

It was/is not part of the major consensus narrative.

Similarly, churches are entities of morality, protectors of the weak. At least that's what the narrative still says. So when people hear about these atrocious acts of child abuse, they don't buy it. It doesn't fit their world view, and overcoming the inevitable cognitive dissonance would require them to a) re-examine their own beliefs/perceptions and b) act upon it. That's not an easy thing to do.

Once they cross that threshold, "I don't buy it" turns into "I've known all along". Happens all the time.

I am so, so, so, sick of religion. The sooner it is consigned to history, the better it will be for all of us.

Ultra-Orthodox Jew community, let me introduce you to something we from the out-side world call the Streisand Effect.

Completely off topic, but I'd have them switch positions. Both of them are facing the camera with hair in their face. Anna not so much, but throw the other one a headband or a scrunchie or something. Just the director in me coming out.

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Completely off topic, but I'd have them switch positions. Both of them are facing the camera with hair in their face. Anna not so much, but throw the other one a headband or a scrunchie or something. Just the director in me coming out.


*Ana

Just the editor in me coming out.

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Alos Ultra Orthodox Jews are just as bad as any extreme sect of a religion.

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"Why don't more people know about this?"
Well, why didn't more people know about the existence of the Mafia previous to Joe Valachi's testimony before Senate? The CIA's involvement in drug trafficking? Police brutality? Climate change? Peak oil? Torture camps? Civilian casualties of drone strikes?
It was/is not part of the major consensus narrative.
Similarly, churches are entities of morality, protectors of the weak. At least that's what the narrative still says. So when people hear about these atrocious acts of child abuse, they don't buy it. It doesn't fit their world view, and overcoming the inevitable cognitive dissonance would require them to a) re-examine their own beliefs/perceptions and b) act upon it. That's not an easy thing to do.
Once they cross that threshold, "I don't buy it" turns into "I've known all along". Happens all the time.

Paedophilia in the Catholic church is part of the "consensus narrative"; so much so that it's the first thing I think of when I think of the Catholic Church.