I'm assuming you're refferring to catholic priests? I'm sorry, but I don't think those guys were a part of god's priesthood
I like the way you displaced the blame all onto the Catholics. But, I am really sorry to inform you, bad preists can be found in your denomination as well:
http://www.davidmacd.com/catholic/priest_sexual_abuse_cases.htm
The Catholic priesthood is not the only institution that has been hit with scandal. In 2001, I heard the Evangelical radio show "Focus on the Family", hosted by psychologist and author Dr. James Dobson, discuss a crisis among Pastors of non-Catholic churches. They reported that 21% of Evangelical/Protestant pastors had had inappropriate sexual contact with members of their congregations. Sixty percent (60%) of Evangelical pastors, most of whom are married, have a problem with pornography. In a 1984 study, 76% of pastors knew of another Evangelical pastor who had sexual intercourse with a parishioner.
A list of non-Catholic ministers charged in court with abuse is here. In this post Freudian world, sex scandal has hit many major institutions including, presidencies, public schools, and minor league sports. God save us.
The incidence of abuse by teachers is even more staggering, as a 1988 study reported in The Handbook on Sexual Abuse of Children reveals. It reported that "One in four girls, and one in six boys, is sexually abused [by a teacher] by age 18." A 1991 study revealed that "17.7 percent of males who graduated from high school, and 82.2 percent of females, reported sexual harassment by faculty or staff during their years in school. Fully 13.5 percent said they had sexual intercourse with their teacher,"
A survey by the Washington Post found that "Over the last four decades, less than 1.5 percent of the estimated 60,000 or more men who have served in the Catholic clergy have been accused of child sexual abuse." ...Dr. Thomas Plante, a psychologist at Santa Clara University, found that '80 to 90% of all priests who in fact abuse minors have sexually engaged with adolescent boys, not prepubescent children,'" the report continues, underscoring the fact that the ordination of priests with homosexual tendencies may be the real problem. ... In 2002, Christian Ministry Resources [an Evangelical Legal Service] reported on national surveys they conducted which concluded that "Despite headlines focusing on the priest pedophile problem in the Roman Catholic Church, most American churches being hit with child sexual-abuse allegations are Protestant." Lifesite News, Feb 6 2004
Yes, I know what that means. I'm saying though, that people can change, if they really want to. If they're unrepentent, though, they'll probably just continue to do the same things, and blame it on their subconcious.
It is their subconscious that is causing them to act in that way anyway. A mass-murderer, only becomes like that, because of his history and conditioning. The conscious mind can only handle a handful of information at any one time, everything else is subconscious and unconscious.