From an interview with Christianity Today:
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/january-web-only/rachael-denhollander-larry-nassar-forgiveness-gospel.html
"Yes. Church is one of the least safe places to acknowledge abuse because the way it is counseled is, more often than not, damaging to the victim. There is an abhorrent lack of knowledge for the damage and devastation that sexual assault brings. It is with deep regret that I say the church is one of the worst places to go for help. That’s a hard thing to say, because I am a very conservative evangelical, but that is the truth. There are very, very few who have ever found true help in the church."
She then goes on to explain how her own advocacy on behalf of abuse victims made her into a pariah within her own church.
“The reason I lost my church was not specifically because I spoke up,” she says. “It was because we were advocating for other victims of sexual assault within the evangelical community, crimes which had been perpetrated by people in the church and whose abuse had been enabled, very clearly, by prominent leaders in the evangelical community.”
Denhollander also says that the situation she was dealing with in the [Evangelical] church was “one of the worst, if not the worst, instances of evangelical cover-up of sexual abuse.”
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Smartech ago
Why would you go to the church for help from illiterate imbeciles who only know the bible?
GrimHagen18 ago
If they actually knew and followed the Bible, they would be wise and not do the horrible things reported above.
Kacey ago
Yep they might only do horrible things like put their only son on an altar and prepare to him him on God's command. That God allowed Abraham to substitute a sheep doesn't change how poor Isaac felt. And what was all this stuff about sacrificing animals to God. I hope at least all the people in the animal rights movement are not followers of the Bible which before Jesus sanctioned killing animals, not for food, but to please a vengeful, jealous god ("Vengance is mine" he says, "I the lord your god am a jealous god" he says)
GrimHagen18 ago
For you,
Psalm 2:1-5 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.