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Clergy are in a position of authority over these victims. Religion is a power structure and as they say, “power corrupts.” That’s all there is to it. It would seem to be that it takes a special kind of person to want to be clergy, and that person is very corruptible. The religious teachings themselves hardly figure into it.
I mean, Turkey is no stranger to inflation. When I was there in 2000 before revaluation, it was something like a million old lira = $1.