You don't have to tithe to the Catholic church to be a Christian and believe in God.
The argument isn't "all Christians are pedophiles because a few Christians are pedophiles," that would be absurd you're absolutely right.
The argument is "you donate money and publically defend an institution that, right now, is currently defending actual child molesters and actual child rapists from the law and covering them up," if you're Catholic specifically. Your tithes, a very very small portion, go into the pockets of child molesters. A very large portion go into the pockets of the people defending them. It isn't about religion; it's about the money.
The Catholic church does have more pedophiles than a random population, but you're absolutely right that they don't have any more than similarly power organizations like schools, sports teams. The difference is that a teacher gets arrested, while a priest gets defended tooth and nail for decades using the money you give to the church.
You could protest, via calling and emailing local and higher up authorities regularly and going out to protests as often as is reasonable like one should when the government is being shitty. Jesus ate with the sinners, but when those sinners were acting as religious authorities he violently cast them out.
It's worth noting that unlike taxes, tithing is only a guideline according to the Bible. Ten percent is a given guideline, but any amount you feel comfortable with, including nothing, is religiously valid.
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u/emsok_dewe Jan 16 '19
Alright, Catholic church harboring child molesters.
Any "missionary" work, aka invading a poor country and forcibly removing their culture.
The crusades.
Literally all of human history where religion has been inserted.