Oh, the boarding schools, I forgot to write about that. Yes, terrible.
Regardless of what it says about religions, I am continually shocked by how many child and sexual abusers there are everywhere. Doesn't make it right anywhere. When I was in high school the big scandal was a school police officer abusing young boys. There is not an institution that is safe--or any kind of circle of "influential" people, as Jeffrey Epstein and his network proves.
I give some money to the church because I feel it necessary to help pay salaries and insurance benefits. Otherwise my charity is done on an individual basis so I can see directly who it goes to, like my two go-to GoFundMe causes:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-for-uwmadison-survivor
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-single-mom-get-lipedema-surgery