Have you noticed Awakenings that there is little response by christians.
Is it the shame that they feel when the stories unfold about the abuse of children etc.? for it's very hard to accept the reality that exists around them.
Instead of the idealisms that their preachers caste upon them they unfortunately have to drop their heads because those teachers of christianity have failed them through their unadulterated sin.
grassman tells us that churches are but mere buildings and that people are themselves the church. Well of course that is true, only those buildings are the very place that these sinful crimes take place.
I somehow think brushing it under the carpet might be the ploy, however one cannot hide from the truth because god cannot be hidden from.