Why am I not in the least amazed to hear about the appalling childhood clergy sexual abuses that have been exposed in Ampleforth College and Downside Abbey?
The news reports are saying (with a look of sheer surprise!) that it "goes back decades"
Well- no shit Sherlock! Have you not been listening to us for decades?
This abuse of power is endemic in the church, it can be found in all of the catholic schools, colleges, presbyteries, sacristies, church halls, and under the bloody stairs!
Wherever these creeps are, there will be sexual physical, emotional, and mental abuse!It is in the DNA of the narcissistic church and it's pedophile clergy.
How could it not be? When these people are so deified! They are taken when they are hardly teenagers, thrown together in a sexually charged, yet repressive environment, told they are "special" and chosen by god, and they have been "Ontologically" changed at ordination!
They are even told that they have "sacred hands" and we all have come to know all too well what they do with them!
The rest of the masses are told to revere these men as being the next thing to god. They not only have power over your earthly lives, but hold the keys to your afterlife too!
What power! and inevitably - What power abuse!
What an absolutely "brilliant business" model for a worldwide con!
The church continues to make demi-gods out of inadequates and let them loose on the unsuspecting sheep they are to tend.
The indoctrinated masses, fear filled and guilt ridden, do their grooming job for them!
What a clever and sinister method of control!
I remember, in my family, Ampleforth college been talked about with absolute reverence, almost in hushed tones, as if it were some magical elite citadel, where only the very best could attend, and everyone aspired to.
Some aspiration eh? What a lofty goal indeed!
What does continue to surprise and shock me is seeing heartbroken victims saying with incredulity that they have not had an "apology" !
Of course they haven't!
They are NOT bloody sorry!
And when they do utter anything vaguely like contrite words, when they are dragged out of them, they are meaningless!
What the F... is the use of an apology!!
Make AMENDS you lousy miscreants!
All institutions are primarily concerned with self-preservation. It becomes even more complicated and paradoxical when an institution claiming to preserve and promote the sacred will do so at all costs for something that by its very purported nature should not need an institution to preserve.
ReplyDeleteWell put. A child's spirit should be nurtured, as a sacred and precious. Doing so will lead to a productive life that will benefit many. In dollars alone the cost of child abuse in the US is high. Fang's study of the CDC figures estimates it to be between USD $121 and $ 585 Bn a year. Within $5 bn of the defense spend. I wonder how positive it would be for people across the World to sit and meditate, together at the same time, how this money could be better spent, if children were instead nurtured and thus this money could be re allocated. An abuse related death, over dose etc, costs around USD $ 1,7m in lost productivity, in relation to GDP. https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20120201/in-dollars-alone-cost-of-us-child-abuse-high#1
DeleteExactly Sue, make amends means make restitution. Some of these institutions claim to the public that they have changed. The evidence of when a victim summons the courage to speak out to the institution and expose the perpetrators within the regime is contrary to the public show. The victims are told to get lost or as a journalist put it to me, in much stronger language, inappropriate to use on a public blog. The facts therefore is that there is no change, just spin, deception, misrepresentation. These institutions are just as dangerous, if not more so than when they were caught. The amazing thing is that parents still send their loves ones to the slaughter. To experience a slow death, to have their life essence, their joie de vivre robbed. I read recently the comparison between the mental illness of the kleptomaniac and the pedophile. The kleptomaniac does nothing with its stolen cache, just stores it. The pedophiles and those that enable and support then harvest hundreds of thousands, millions of souls, for what purpose? There difference between them in my opinion and the crack head, smoking ice each day, slowly dying, is that smoking crack is a victimless crime, except for the one doing it. Probably having internalized a message from a perpetrator that they are worthless or worse than that, having had the blame guilt and shame projected onto to them. Are now acting out a false narrative, stuck in role play in the wrong part. With social media, one would have hoped this would be common knowledge by now and the government and criminal justice system would be speaking to all addicts and all inmates as 76% of them around the world are there for drug related crimes and finding out from them who their perpetrators are. One could then reverse the position, free those who are at the heart of it good people and replace them with the perpetrators. More jobs for the boys as they would likely have to extend and build more prisons. Zen-fully speaking this would be a positive thing and demonstrate that humans have evolved, as looking one presently one must wonder!
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