The movie is done very well for a documentary. If it were me doing it, I would have been much more hateful and promote a sense of outrage towards those who could/can do something about it yet choose to remain silent. However, the producers were wise, and presented facts (spoken by the victims themselves), letting you make up your own mind about what they said. I found this to be very effective.
The monumental size of the damage done by the silent church cannot be put in words. To know about tens of thousands of abuses on children, be able to take action, and yet choose to remain silent, it is beyond my comprehension not only as a human being, but as a devout Christian.
I hope that people will not be mad at the one person that the movie focused on (Lawrence Murphy). Our instinct is to try and take our anger on him, and make him pay for what he did. But we cannot do that - he is dead, and even if he were alive, there is nothing we can do to completely take out our rage against the incomprehensible acts that he did. However, what we can do is watch the movie, vote on it, ask others to watch it, and find ways to support those who are far better equipped than us to take action.
The monumental size of the damage done by the silent church cannot be put in words. To know about tens of thousands of abuses on children, be able to take action, and yet choose to remain silent, it is beyond my comprehension not only as a human being, but as a devout Christian.
I hope that people will not be mad at the one person that the movie focused on (Lawrence Murphy). Our instinct is to try and take our anger on him, and make him pay for what he did. But we cannot do that - he is dead, and even if he were alive, there is nothing we can do to completely take out our rage against the incomprehensible acts that he did. However, what we can do is watch the movie, vote on it, ask others to watch it, and find ways to support those who are far better equipped than us to take action.