Before anyone marches in about how they're sure Non-Denominational Christians aren't guiltless, let me point out that this is likely true, and I'm not going to sit here trying to defend any crime any Christian has ever committed. I'm just pointing out my disatisfaction of a hierarchy with an apparent history of corruption, who's so called equivelant of an Apostle is covering massive sins of his underlings up and handling PR instead of facing it as an example of dignity. And here they just prove how much more they are a business than a path to God.
Agreed. Even though I'm an atheist, I have a lot of christian friends (infact I think only 2 or 3 of my friends are actually atheist/agnostic), and I'm certainly not gonna think lower of them just because a priest raped a kid. But people tend to generalize in that fashion, so basically these people, these pedophiles make christianity as a whole look bad.
But you know, it can also work the other way around. There's been cases in which, because of the hate-mongering atheists, atheism has been generalized as evil because of prejudiced believers.
There will always be generalization. We just have to try to contribute to its decreasement, and if we're charismatic, maybe convince other people to do the same.
