Last week I heard an interesting show on Radio 4 by a great journalist called Jon Ronson. He was talking to a chap from Los Angeles who became a born-again Christian, but lost his faith when the Catholic child abuse scandal broke; he said he saw too much evidence of the church covering it up. The final nail in the coffin of his faith was when he learned that many priests known to be abusers were seemingly shipped up to Alaska, where they perpetuated horrendous abuse of eskimo children on a huge scale - when the victims came forward they were offered $10,000 each by the church to keep quiet.
That's all I can think about now when I hear the words 'Christian' and 'Alaska'.
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Last week I heard an interesting show on Radio 4 by a great journalist called Jon Ronson. He was talking to a chap from Los Angeles who became a born-again Christian, but lost his faith when the Catholic child abuse scandal broke; he said he saw too much evidence of the church covering it up. The final nail in the coffin of his faith was when he learned that many priests known to be abusers were seemingly shipped up to Alaska, where they perpetuated horrendous abuse of eskimo children on a huge scale - when the victims came forward they were offered $10,000 each by the church to keep quiet.
That's all I can think about now when I hear the words 'Christian' and 'Alaska'.