Both Christianity and Islam have parts in their holy books than command the murder of children..murder of rape victims..stoning of women who aren't virgins on their wedding nights, etc. As for raping children, that particular commandment is not in the bible..but when a religion forces priests to become celibate and drones the idea in their head that sex is bad and lusting after women is a sin, you are repressing a natural human instinct..so they end up unleashing it on kids when they think they can get away with it.
You are very right.
The problem is that texts from the bible are family or tribe stories that are dramatized. The islam is very similar in that way. Every body knows in their hart right from wrong. Even if they don't live by it. Everybody who takes the texts in the bible or the koran literally is bound to do wrong and harmful things. And i see the jewish religious texts and the christian bible as the same.
And i fully agree about the celibate life.
Let's think of the following 3 hypothetical situations :
Situation 1:
A young man is not attracted to women. Since he has grown up in a religious environment where women are seen as sin, he feels when he is in adolescence very insecure and he finds peace in his holy book. He is filled with questions and is seeking answers. He decides to become a priest. There he discovers his passion for young boys. And although he sees them as innocent and must treat him kind, his sexual thoughts do not leave him alone. He is bound to make the mistake.
Situation 2:
A young man is not attracted to women. Since he has grown up in a religious environment where women are seen as sin, he feels when he is in adolescence very insecure and he finds peace in his holy book. He is filled with questions and is seeking answers. He decides to become a priest. He becomes a priest because he thinks he is touched by god freeing him from the sin of women. Thinking he is actually part angel because he likes angels so much. Why ? Since angels are supposed to be asexual. Then he finds out the truth : He discovers that he prefers males of his own age. When he meets someone who is a homosexual like himself , they unleash each other in wild passion. Feeding his desires and making him more likely that he will make the same (mistake ?) again. Now this is not very unlikely. But depending on the priests/ iman's / whatever person, the outcome of how that person deals with it is very different indeed.
Situation 3:
This situation is not as rare and not unlikely, someone with extreme discipline and who prefers women can be a priest. But he will very likely not feel complete ever, feeding his devotion to god. And someday he just might become fundamentally religious because he has to deal with "normal" people who live sexual lives and have other for him disturbing habits such as hugging and caressing.
Turning his desire and longing for a woman's touch into hate for any woman he actually desires.
I am touching dangerous grounds here but i will give my opinion anyway :
A man and a woman are meant for each other. But they have to be right for each other, if they do not get along it just won't work. If they only like each other for the sex and that is the reason they got married in the first place, spiritually they have no connection and this will be the reason of the divorce or cheating or violence. Men and women are supposed to compensate each other not only sexually but also spiritually. One can not survive without the other. Thinking you can is foolish. The only way is to remove the gonads. But removing reproductive organs will make the body sick and weak if we do not compensate for the loss of hormones. Because evolutionary wise, humans are still based on this building plan for reproduction. If humans have often sex, the stronger and healthier they feel. But having sex with every one and everything is not the way because then the fast spread of dangerous pathogens will occur. A good example is hiv and hepatites spreading so fast in the past because of the sex islands and swinger clubs where everybody was having unsafe sex with everybody. Even today with everybody knowing the dangers people still exhibit dangerous behaviour. Some are past 50 and feel like they want to enjoy there remaining lives as much as possible and as such they really do not care about these things. A pedophile cannot have a normal life. And having sex without the love, as many gay men and a few gay women have, only feeds the desire for more sex. And the desire for more sex turns slowly into more extreme sex because there is no love to compensate for the addictive effect of sex. Once any person have had sex willingly(to negate the effects of strong emotions or blocking), it never leaves the mind increasing the desire and the craving. It is not for a reason that in religious countries women have to be covered up because of all the sexual frustration.
In our western world and increasingly globally, this desire and craving is often (ab)used to sell stuff. Example :You want to sell an awful tasting can of beans, just slap on a picture of a beautiful woman and some cleavage on it or an attractive athletic man. It will sell faster then a picture of a big loving grandmother who makes the best bean sauce ever made. Even when the beans actually taste good and the grandmother picture is applied.