The theologian Teodor Baconschi gives the answer to the priest Nicolae Tănase, the president of the Pro Vita Association, who believes that the beautiful girls, who were victims of sexual assault, “they are not really innocent” and that they should go to jail too.
“Christ (whose Resurrection was heralded by the myrrh-bearing women) became incarnate through the humble freedom of the Virgin Mary, he was close to women, whom he forgave and blessed, only we can also make a history of “Christian” misogyny , on the model “Eve is to blame” (we forget that salvation also came through a woman)”is the opinion of Teodor Baconschi.
Priest Nicolae Tănase, president of the Pro Vita Association, believes that the beautiful girls, who were victims of sexual assault, “they are not really innocent” and that they should go to jail too.
Priest Nicolae Tănase, Pro Vita Social Center – Facebook photo
The spokesman of the Patriarchate reacted to the cleric's statements on Facebook, criticizing a distorted perspective on gender and religion, emphasizing the authentic values of Christianity.
“If a boy abuses a girl, she is also guilty.” Because he tempted him. She's just a descendant of Eve, you know. Ergo, let her go to prison too. Here is a sample of barbaric clericalized “thinking,” armed to the teeth against reason, tenderness, and theology, reductionist to the point of self-cancellation, inspired by the worst possible relationship to reality and biblical revelation. In such a bleak vision, temptation is not just a feminine noun, it is woman or femininity itself. A priori guilty before man and manhood. The latter being, in the context, just a euphemism for virile, aggressive and possibly barbophorous youth. How sad! When the core of Christianity is only freedom, love, joy. Responsible freedom, agapic love, joy of encounter and resurrection.“, wrote Vasile Bănescu.
Alina Gorghiu, the Minister of Justice qualified the priest's statements as “an invitation to rape“.
“It's not just an uninspired statement, it's an invitation to rape! Folks, that kind of statement is medieval, shocking! The priest from the town of Valea Plopului said that “sexually abused girls must also go to prison, because they are beautiful”, not only the aggressors, the poor“, begins Alina Gorghiu's Facebook post.
