Thread by @tisaiahcho

Cornelius Van Til argued that we don't deal with just bare facts, but we interpret facts based upon our presuppositions. The presuppositional preference of protecting reputation and power have again and again overridden accountability, justice, and protection.

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Further, "slander" requires falsehood in order to be slander. People telling their experiences of abuse in the OPC and PCA does not amount to slander in any thoughtful definition of the term. That would be equivalent to calling a whistleblower policy a slander policy.

Even further, your comments and similar comments are exactly why people have not and continue to not come out in public with their stories of abuse in our church circles. They are met with gaslighting, preposterous accusations of "slander" and "insubordination," while the

abusers are protected and the good ol' boys club fire shots against the reputation of the victims.

Again, if you want to deal in facts, then deal in the facts that the percentage of false accusations of abuse are extremely rare. People don't just jump in and make false

accusations about abuse, because they have a lot to lose even when they are perfectly in the right.

The church of Jesus is always on the side of the vulnerable and beaten down. Read Ezekiel 34 and God's condemnation of leaders who beat up the sheep, take advantage of them, and

don't listen to their cries for help.

If anonymous reporting of abuse causes you to get more upset than the decades of darkness covering up abusers and people in power and status in these denominations, then you've clearly lost sight of the heart of Christ.