The Vile Valentinian Gnostic Roots of Catholic Child Sex Abuse

Many people have noted the problem of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church.  They've wondered what the cause is of this terrible scourge.  Why do Catholic priests-- formerly seen as kind, gentle spiritual guides-- rape children in such huge numbers?  In the Roman Catholic Church, five percent of priests appear to be involved in child sex abuse cases.  In Boston at the present time, fully TEN PERCENT of the diocese from 1950-2003 have been involved in the sexual abuse of minors.  Why are they committing such repugnant crimes, and in such numbers?

The root of the problem is the Valentinian breakaway heresy.

Valentinus (also spelled Valentinius) (c.100 - c.160) was the best known and for a time most successful early Christian gnostic theologian. He founded his school in Rome. According to Tertullian, Valentinus was a candidate for bishop but started his own group when another was chosen.
Valentinus produced a variety of writings, but only fragments survive, largely those embedded in refuted quotations in the works of his opponents, not enough to reconstruct his system except in broad outline. His doctrine is known to us only in the developed and modified form given to it by his disciples. He taught that there were three kinds of people, the spiritual, psychical, and material; and that only those of a spiritual nature (his own followers) received the gnosis (knowledge) that allowed them to return to the divine Pleroma, while those of a psychic nature (ordinary Christians) would attain a lesser form of salvation, and that those of a material nature (pagans and Jews) were doomed to perish.

Valentinus had a large following, the Valentinians. It later divided into an Eastern and a Western or Italian branch. The Marcosians belonged to the Western branch.

Unfortunately, part of the sacrament for Valentinians has always been the brutal sex assault of minors, preferably young boys.

Early Valentinians believed that this sex abuse brought them closer to Jesus.
As current Catholic child rapists are exposed, they are invariably found to subscribe to the Valentinian Gnostic doctrines of the early Gnostic church.
This is their symbol:

This symbol became so closely associated with Valentinian Catholic child rapists in the Middle Ages that it has become a community signifier (shibboleth) for pedophiles in general.  When you see this symbol, guard your children because a pedophile may be near.