I mean, is there someone with a perfect record?
I think you learn and grow to be good, to take care of others, and this process goes with mistakes that impact yourself and others... You cannot expect someone to be always 100% perfect all the time.
As for myself, I did tons of shit that I am not proud of, so you should pass on this comment as well...
This is the entire focus of western American Christianity. The pervasiveness of this is built into our culture, and as a result the world culture (because we exported this insanity)
So what you get is a worldwide society of people who will use any human failing of a leader as proof of why all of what they did is wrong.
Pillaging Christians starting with the Inquisition created a perfect reference person for which everyone should be compared to which makes everyone not good enough ever. Only through the weekly blessing that you have to attend and confess to can you be temporarily saved from certain forever death
It's just so embedded into western culture that the source is not even recognized as the source.
Not sure what that's supposed to mean. Strange spell-check error?
I'm not a Christian, but I think that Protestant purity culture is a likelier culprit than Catholicism. Claims of moral pollution and calls for banning don't come from the pulpit, but from an "enlightened" public that can "think for itself."
If you've done tons of shit that you're not proud of, I'll probably pass on your book too.
Sharing his experience and talking about the mistakes he made and how bad it was is just a net positive for all - I mean he is still a role model and can influence young people - so I see no value in cancelling him. I would agree with you if he was still groping or promoting such behaviour, which doesn't seem to be the case.
I know all this doesn’t fix anything for the victims, and it is terrible for them.