AUSTRALIA
3AW
Religious people must stop ignoring the faults in their faith, says Tom Elliott.
The 3AW phone lines rang hot after Tom launched into a passionate editorial about the serious problems the world faces and their links to religion.
Tom referred to harrowing testimony presented at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Childhood Sexual Abuse today.
“There’s something about the Catholic Church and its insistence upon celibacy for its priests and its secrecy, it’s covering up – over not just years but decades of complaints – it says to me that there is something wrong with not just a few individuals but the structure of various churches themselves.”
“I believe at the root of it lies the fact that some people do not want to hear the possibility that their religion is flawed.”
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