Maybe again I am not understanding you. But you cannot lay all the world's problems at the feet of religion.
In truth you cannot put all the blame on the perpetrators either. It's extremely rare for someone to sexually abuse a child without first being sexually abused themselves as a child. It's a very long cycle that starts somewhere down the line. It seems overwhelmingly obvious to me that it started when people starting creating a system of sexual morality and government.
Take male homosexuality for instance. There is no way sodemny didn't spread disease in the ancient world. From a governmental perspective it should have been banned to keep the city clean from actual defilement that would kill them and their family. Once contraception technology was developed and refined, however, sodemny became much more manageable. But the governments could not change with the winds of technology because people historically worship their governmental writings. Only up until recently was their a demand for separation between church and state. So now, even today, we have raging debates over gay marriage. It's all because religion is still in government. You can chalk up ALL the woes that homosexuals have faced to religious government, that is for the most part long gone, and it's after effects.
It's the same with sexual predators. As you know religion doesn't seem to play a part for your abusers, but that doesn't mean religion didn't cause the abuse. If someone hangs a homosexual you could say that that person just is evil and isn't a reflection of their church. That is not true in the slightest. The Bible's abomidable "hate" for homosexuality WILL eventually cause someone to hang a homosexual, more than once. That has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Governments regulated heterosexual sex back in the day for simiar reasons why they regulated homosexual sex. They were taking one of their few options that was available to them to protect against disease. You can't just convince people how to manage their sex lives, though. You have to attach a God stigma to it, which at the time would have been true. God works through human governments and if he had a disease problem he had a disease problem. There isn't really anything moral about it, it's just science.
But how do people look at the old laws today? They worship them and think that they were written down for mystical purposes and are connected to their salvation in the afterlife. Much like circumcision of Peter's day. With today's technology circumcision is not necessary, but in the ancient times it would have been an edge on other civilizations that had to accommodate for the medical and hygienic difference. How did the people of Acts 15 take the law? They worshipped it and thought that it was written down for mystical purposes and was connected to their salvation in the afterlife. There are patterns here that cannot be turned aside.
My mother's sister married a sexual deviant. This was because her religion prohibited sex before marriage so they tied the knot to early. They then had three kids, two sons and one daughter. The husband raped the daughter and increased her sexuality at a young age. That daughter then came through my family like a whirlwind of sex. She, at one point, had sex with almost every young person in my family from infants to preteens I being one of them when I was around 5 years old. This early sex experience changed my sexuality permanently. I used to have sexual crushes on every girl in school that was remotely attractive even from a very young age. I was very guilty about my thoughts because I thought my salvation in the afterlife was at stake. I had no choice but to have this problem because of my cousin's father's choice.
Everyone that my cousin had sex with is not doing well in their adult life. They all have emotional problems and were/are forced to use only the Jehovah's Witness religion to solve their problems. My cousin was defintely a predator, but I hold no animosity towards her. I know that she is just damaged and what happened was what happened. I do hold some strong animosity towards her father, but even then I know that he is too.
It's my belief that every sexual offense, if you could somehow travel back in time, could be explained by sexual repression (caused by religion) of someone in the genetic line which created a cycle of pain and suffering that made their religion believe it was the time of the end. Firefighters that start their own fires. There are no heroes in this story, yet, only villians and victims.
-Sab
