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<h3 class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sex and sin and clerical child sexual abuse</strong></h3><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The 'God Debate' is given a shot in the arm with this new assault on a leading Church Father St Augustine of Hippo.&nbsp;Vignettes from the author's church school where he faced abuse by Catholic priests illustrate the work.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He traces the roots of clerical child sexual abuse and suggests the Church's teaching on sex and sin might play a more influential role than has generally been recognised in mainstream social science.&nbsp;Lucid descriptions by a schoolteacher of RE lessons in faith schools today will stir readers who suppose Christianity is a benign influence to think again.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In 2021 the UK Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published a dossier revealing that the church remains mired in safeguarding and abuse scandals.&nbsp;Yet nothing in literature explains this deviance credibly.&nbsp;The possible influence of Augustinian ideas on the church's continuing exploitation and neglect of children in its care is examined in depth here.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book fills a gap in the shelf lifting the lid on a story of abuse and indoctrination which continues to this day.</span></p><p><br></p>