A “Special Place in Hell”

photo attributed to the patch.com link below

Three news stories caught my attention this week, converged, and resulted in this blog post.

https://patch.com/california/beverlyhills/compare-size-ca-wildfires-city-you-live

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-fires-woolsey-hill-camp-california-fire-death-toll-in-paradise-1542421299-htmlstory.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/catholic-church-sex-abuse.html

https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/11/15/150-former-ohio-state-students-have-nowgiven.html

In some Christian denominations, parishioners are taught to fear being “cast into an eternal lake of fire”.  Some of those “sinners” continue to listen to their church leaders and even financially support an institution that condones and protects its worst abusers.  When will people wake up, think rationally, use common sense, and stop listening to these hypocrites?  I say that there is a special place in hell for these church leaders and the place is Paradise, CA.

The Board of Trustees and school leadership at OSU has now spent $1.5 M trying to get to the bottom of allegations against just one similar predator who worked for Ohio State from 1978 to 1998. The alleged abuser killed himself in 2005 in Los Angeles.  One may ask why spend this money now?  Hopefully, so that OSU as an institution can publicly state that sexual abuse will not be tolerated in any form and will not be swept into a locked filing cabinet so that the reputation of the institution can be saved from tarnish.

As I sit in a beloved place in central Ohio, condemning any institution that protects sexual predators, may I also have sympathy for those poor souls who have lost loved ones and have lost most everything to fires that may have been sparked due to institutional irresponsibility.

CPW