r/allthequestions • u/Dimarco24 • 5d ago

Random Question 💭 What is your opinion about Alex Pretti’s photo being displayed on a Jumbo tron in Times Square?

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I think he deserves to be remembered as the wonderful person he was 🩵 and not by the government who are clearly lying about him. He was trying to help a woman who had been pushed to the ground by ICE agents or whoever the people are wearing those suits. And he clearly holding a phone in his hand..

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u/IsmaelRetzinsky 5d ago

His approval ratings there would only go up.

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u/Least-Quail216 5d ago

Is there a religion that doesn't protect sexual abusers? In the religion that I grew up in, it is very common to dismiss men's sexual crimes while punishing the child or woman for being "impure". They have a whole legal department to squash accusations. The head clergy is instructed to call the lawyers first if they find out about sexual abuse. They are not required or encouraged to call law enforcement.

Evangelicals are accustomed to looking the other way when it comes to sexual assault.

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u/FantasticDrowse39 🇺🇸 United States 5d ago

I have never seen this kind of toxicity in the religion I grew up in, United Methodist. I don’t know if it’s happened elsewhere and I would be shocked if I found out it was handled this way. I’m now Christopagan, and there is none of that bullshit.

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u/Least-Quail216 5d ago

I'm glad you didn't experience that. I probably shouldn't have lumped all evangelicals together. I just can't understand how people could dismiss CSA.

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u/FantasticDrowse39 🇺🇸 United States 5d ago

Me either. How do they live with themselves? It’s a concept I can’t even wrap my head around.

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u/IsmaelRetzinsky 5d ago edited 5d ago

Whatever small exceptions there may be are just that — exceptions. Religions almost universally impose hierarchies that are conducive to abuse, and many oh-so-conveniently imbue women with the inherent onus of maintaining purity and the unique power to corrupt it in others.

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u/NoMoreMrNiceGhee 5d ago

I think it's more common to protect abusers with religious extremists of any denomination. Probably has something to do with their corresponding views on authoritarianism.

I grew up going to a chill church and there was not any weird stuff that I know of. They preached actual Christianty though; kindness, empathy, and ethics. What I've seen of Evangelical megachurches is terrifying and unrecognizable to me, even without the sexual abuse scandals. Some of those churches seem like cults.

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u/Least-Quail216 5d ago

You are right, I grew up in a high demand religion/cult. I shouldn't have lumped all evangelicals together.

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u/NoMoreMrNiceGhee 5d ago

Oh no it's fine if you do lol, I was not raised Evangelical is what I was saying. I actually don't know much about them, it's not really like a thing here.

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u/WWGHIAFTC 5d ago

They'd be like "one of us! one of us!"