Defeater Ethics: Abuse in the Church
Every Square Inch Podcast
Christ for Kentucky
4.9 • 557 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
It‘s completely understandable why someone who has been abused by their religious leader would leave the church. In this week’s episode, Robert speaks to those who have left Christianity behind and shares a message of encouragement that he has shared with countless others affected by abuse.
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| 1:02.0 | I said last week that we have reached a turning point in our Defeater Ethics series, having dealt with the ethical objections against God |
| 1:14.1 | himself that call the goodness of God into question, we're now turning to the ethical failures |
| 1:20.5 | of Christians that you might be tempted to then hold against Christianity. Our failures |
| 1:27.4 | that poorly reflect God and bring into question |
| 1:32.5 | the goodness of God. And the one I want to address in this episode is probably the most |
| 1:38.3 | significant of these, certainly the most painful. And it's the ethical dilemma of church abuse. Now, I'm going |
| 1:47.1 | to paint this objection with a very broad brushstroke, lumping all forms of ecclesiastical harm |
| 1:56.6 | into one category. So everything from the more overt sexual abuse epidemic that is receiving |
| 2:04.7 | its long overdue exposure in churches to the more covert but still very harmful |
| 2:10.8 | instances of spiritual abuse that take place within churches, any and all forms of harm |
| 2:17.4 | inflicted by Christian authority. |
| 2:20.2 | And while I do believe this ethical failure is a barrier for non-Christians who have never |
| 2:26.1 | been members of a church community, it's a greater barrier and certainly a more painful |
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