Veteran rocker Tom Petty isn’t pulling any punches with his new song “Playing Dumb.”
In an interview with Billboard magazine, Petty said that he wrote the song about the decades of child sex abuse in the Catholic church and the elaborate lengths that priests and their leaders have gone to cover up the crimes.
“I’m fine with whatever religion you want to have,” Petty said, “but it can’t tell anybody it’s OK to kill people, and it can’t abuse children systematically for God knows how many years.”
Petty went on to say that he doesn’t understand why people continue to donate to the church, which has paid out millions of dollars in legal settlements to the victims of child-molesting priests.
“If I was in a club, and I found out that there had been generations of people abusing children, and then that club was covering that up, I would quit the club. And I wouldn’t give them any more money,” he said.
“Religion seems to me to be at the base of all wars,” said the Florida-born singer and guitarist. “I’ve nothing against defending yourself, but I don’t think, spiritually speaking, that there’s any conception of God that should be telling you to be violent. It seems to me that no one’s got Christ more wrong than the Christians.”
Petty’s career has spanned more than 30 years, spawning multiple gold and platinum records, including the hit singles “Refugee,” “Don’t Come Around Here No More” and “Won’t Back Down.” He has performed as a solo artist, with his band the Heartbreakers and as a member of the supergroup The Traveling Wilburys alongside rock legend Roy Orbison, ELO founder Jeff Lynne and George Harrison of the Beatles.
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I have absolutely no respect for a so called christian entity that hides, moves and protects men who abuse children! I felt sicken when I first heard how they handled the. reports coming in. How they protected these perverts! I was a catholic for years a a child. I lost interest when I realized the ,men dictated to women what they could and could not do with their own bodies! When I read how they handled the reports, I knew I had been right all along. I had made the correct decision to explore other avenues to spiritual enlightenment. It’s disheartening to see friends that still have an interest in being involved with an organization that harbors these sick, horrible people that can’t see how they affect children for years to come, in so many varied ways. They have no idea! These are not christian values. They have no right to be still involved.. So sad! Thank you Tom Petty for speaking out for the innocent and precious little ones who can’t get the justice they deserve! You rock my man. Thank you!
“If I was in a club, and I found out that there had been generations of people abusing children, and then that club was covering that up, I would quit the club. And I wouldn’t give them any more money,” he said.
NEWSFLASH: We did, it’s called being Protestant. You know the branch of the Christian faith where they protest the “Orthodox” or Roman Catholic Church for its misdeeds, lack of knowledge of Christ and the denial of a relationship with God.
Stop grouping all Christians together, especially, Roman Catholics and Protestants.