unforging heart
2026-06-04 21:45:35.777313+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Pro Publica: In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations. This is particularly about the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, and it sounds extra horrific, but I'm guessing if you scratch the surface of pretty much any church there's similar stuff going on:
What’s more, the church teaches that once a perpetrator is forgiven, anyone who speaks about the wrongdoing — including the victim — can be accused of harboring an unforgiving heart. Those who have left the church, as well as some who are still with it, say this means the burden of sin shifts from the person who committed the act to the person who refuses to let the matter rest.