text: So are you suggesting that the global child abuse scandal that the Catholic church is still dealing with was because non-believers chose to become priests, in order to gain access to children? That is patently ridiculous. These were men (supposedly of god) who leveraged their positions of trust to abuse kids all over the world - there's never been a scandal of this size in any other institution. And to top it off, the church covered it up for years - which makes it even more offensive. 
  What about the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland? Yet another horrible abuse scandal conducted in the name of catholicism.
  Moreover, non-believers don't blow themselves up in the name of anything, in order to further an agenda of any kind, if only because we know we only have one life to live. 
  And I didn't even raise the issue of the horrible crimes committed in the name of Christ by the Crusades and the Inquisition.