This person sounds like a "remake" of the New Year's Resolution! If what he/she says is true, do you think it reasonable to believe that this very strict regimen you describe can continue for an entire lifetime --- without a single interruption? And if he has determined to never have destructive thoughts (although totally unprovable), he could make a fortune marketing it for profit since it works so well!
Calling yourself "religious," if you are a child molestor, has even been shown on NBC's Wednesday's "Predators" weekly TV evening broadcast to be a popular way pedophiles use to describe themselves in order to deflect suspicion! Becoming "religious" can be a convincingly huge "cover" if a molestor needs one after being convicted! Gosh, a permanent reprieve from all pedophilic temptation from God! What is better than that - and not unprovable by any concrete earthly means!
My father was a molestor. He attended church and was a "death to gays and pedophiles" pillar of the community and national music education field. He was a teacher. He was a controller. He was smart (I belong to Mensa). He was very well-educated, and although his advanced degrees were in music, every shelf on his bookcases was covered with psychology books and magazines that he used to reinforce his "cover." His molestation did not end with his daughers - they also involved other children and some of his grandchildren.
One of the ways pedophiles use to throw adults off their trails is to point fingers at others. "You are JUST LIKE ME --- against those MONSTER molestors!" --- and statements like, "My actions are now driven JUST LIKE YOURS - by God." --- and would you disavow your own purity, which was said to be the same as the speaker's, in order to question the "former pedophile's" statement that you were also Godly?
My Master's degree is what used to be called "social psychology" or "why people do what they do." Are you so well groomed by this person and duped through "religion" that you believe everything you hear "in the name of God"? Would you risk a child's physical well being and emotional safety because of this person's "NEW religious beliefs"? In my area of study, it is well known that beliefs are the hardest --- if not impossible --- things to change. If I told you I no longer had blue eyes because I had had a "religious rebirth" and rigorously followed the 12 Rules of Blinking, would you check out the color of my eyes anyway? I surely hope so!
Please remember that "private images" are much different than "public images." I'll bet (if you admit it) that you know where public images are seen, groomed and cultivated, and I'll bet you also know where your private image appears! And in church, if someone knows that he/she is to give a "public confession" to a priest, rabbi or congregation, you might guess that it will be groomed a bit at home (in private) before it gets to church in public!
If you believe this supposed "new "blessing to society" from his words, then I'll bet you don't believe in listening to your first "gut feeling" that many researchers think was physically designed to help keep you from harm's way. If you try to rationalize that you are now an "enlightened, God-loving, rational-thnking adult who does his/her OWN thinking," and you believe that religion can change anyone every time, you will also probably ignore the intuition with which you were born.
"Because the "Book" says..." does not mean that anyone abides by ANY book from cover to cover! And saying so doesn't MAKE it so! Retelling a lie doesn't change it to "truth" --- no matter how many times you retell it! You can put any person in your best prayers, but know that people still "own" free will and that is why we still have prisons; murders; rapes and child molestation can and do still occur.
Remember that anyone can say anything --- and it doesn't necesarily matter if it's true or not, it only matters if it WORKS or not --- and especially if it helps keep a child molestor from going to prison again! That would be a HUGE motivation to lie!
Programs may appear viable on paper and their espoused "positive results" may help keep someone out of the "hot seat" for a while, but these "SOME cases that seem to have the POTENTIAL for being productive" will NOT cut it with me because I've lived with those ideas NOT working before in person --- as a child and an adult.
If the person you describe is responsible enough not to do this again, then he should have been responsible enough not to do these kinds of things in the first place. What is his motivation to now be "accountable"? Because he needs a wife for "respectable" cover????
