Religion is Institutionalized Rape

A common thread among the Abrahamic religions are backwards and laughable treatments of human sexuality. On the surface, it would seem this presents no harm to the public at large if members of the religious community wish to have clumsy and awkward virgin sex on their wedding night, but there is a very real danger in their desire to impose their views of what sexuality should be upon others. In a particularly disastrous case, priestly celibacy has led to a system in which supposedly extra-trustworthy, sex-deprived men are left in positions of power over defenseless children.

Most are aware of the hundreds of millions of dollars the Catholic Church has had to shell out in restitution for “a few bad apples”, but less are aware of how much more they would like to keep it covered up, at the expense of children. The current Pope was in charge of the policy of keeping child-molesting priests from facing criminal prosecution, and in one case, failed to dismiss a priest who had molested over 200 deaf boys. Of course, many Christians will point out that the Pope is not the final authority of Christianity, only the head of a sect. But this problem is not limited to Catholicism. Jesuit religious leaders were found to have sent 28 child-abusing priests to a remote area of Alaska, where they committed over 300 cases of molestation. Even the very prophet Muhammad of the Islamic faith married a six-year-old girl and had sexual intercourse with her when she reached age nine. These people presume to dictate the sexual practices of Americans, pushing the failed policy of abstinence education in schools, denouncing possibly lifesaving contraceptive devices as “sinful” and, of course, keeping homosexuals from marrying when they can’t keep them from having sex with each other. Religious sexual hypocrisy and sexophobia has and will continue to take a terrible toll on our society if we do not take progressive and rational stances on these issues.

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