Are you NOT responsible for the collective and past sins of members of your religion?

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Members of religious organisations follow the same ancient rules and perform the same obligatory actions of worship and other rituals. Those organisations have financial systems, leaders and executive decision panels, input and output, just like any other sort of business.
If you identify with a major religion you become a stakeholder of the organisation and partly responsible for that org's actions.
I mean, why do you think the Roman Catholic Church took out insurance to pay future claims made against them?
OK Cross, can you answer the last part of the question about insurance?
 
Not only that, they are responsible for the collective STUPIDITY of it too...

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I don't consider myself responsible for the collective and past sins of my religion.
 
If you are a shareholder of a company would you have to pay for the consequences of corporate crimes committed by the company in the past? How is religion any different?
 
The Roman Catholic Church is different in many respects, not least of which is the chain of authority which makes the organization as a whole responsible for the acts of individual priests in a way that other organizations do not. But that's responsibility from the top down. Your argument seems to be that of bottom up. I would not hold individual members of the church (or any other organization) responsible for whatever the higher level authorities do.

Morally, you could argue that continuing to be a member of the organization involves acquiescing to that responsibility, but this would imply that only those who do nothing wrong deserve to be leaders. Where are you going to find completely blameless leaders? Clearly, it's a matter of degree. At what point do the individuals have an obligation to protest, to call for the removal of a corrupt leader? To stay and fight or quit in protest? As I say, it's a matter of degree.
 
wrong. The RCC has no shareholders. Members have no legal liability or control. Corporations and other businesses have shareholders who have stake in the business.

Similarly, members are not general or limited partners.
 
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