El Trono de Gracia (The Throne of Graces) – Paul Pletka
Are we entering a time of converging faiths, offering hope to some, or only another giant step in the widespread agnosticism that seems at times a sure forerunner of despair?
The enormous number or priests who betrayed their vows and their congregations by abusing boys has never been adequately addressed, either inside the churches or outside, and even the imprisonment of these malefactors and substantial sums paid to their victims do not solve, or explain, their crimes. Other churches than the Roman Catholic deal with the same issues, although Protestant ministers tend to abuse money rather than little boys.
We are aware of the terrible price our society pays for the crimes of the faith called fundamentalism, addressed in a current play, Demons of the Mind, in which the playwright Talia Pura asks her audience to consider a crime from many angles: the case of Andrea Yates, who in Texas in 2001 drowned her five children in the bathtub. Her brand of faith had taught her that, since her children would grow up in a secular society and probably commit various sins, it was both kind and virtuous to murder them beforehand so they would go straight to God and not to the devil.
While The Ravens Laughed – Paul Pletka
But the question of faith remains unanswered. Since all human beings are subject to failures of judgment—”sins” in the eyes of many religions—revealing and punishing these perpetrators doesn’t seem likely to end the crime. Is it possible that an ordinary man—assuming most religious leaders are ordinary—can with his vows lay off all possibility of weakness, self-indulgence, and an appetite for power over the powerless, perhaps a more potent motivation in the abuse of boys than sexual appetite?
“There but for the grace of God, go I,” an old axiom states. Perhaps the best we can hope for is that converging faiths, bringing in the beliefs of indigenous people and others—women especially—traditionally excluded from church hierarchies, will allow us to cling to the remnants of belief in what is sometimes known as a Higher Power rather than lapsing into too-easy cynicism, and its attendant despair.
Grass Dance of the Omaha Society – Paul Pletka
Blackfeet Indian – Paul Pletka
Its the instigators who knowingly propagate an atmosphere ripe for abuse who irk me more than the criminals.
Just how much false information from ” higher learning” was fed to men like these by way of the McKinsey Institute for sex that world renouned Judith Reisman called out ?
Faith? Agnostic? I believe as people see more clearly that Mercy can be easily applied when understanding ” can” take place, we will seek it.
This post about corruption in the church is nothing new. Jesus went to those thrown out to minister to too. Oh he called them out, thise who benefited as it rained on the just and unjust alike. To those living high on the mountaintop administering justice, he called them out too.
Universally the same , missing an empathy chip as they come from a place of consumption. These ppl with labels dare I say it, that the words MALIGNANT and CHRONIC & COMPLEX. are missing from the Diagnostic Manuel of disorders are a key.
See these mid and high level Judas types whom no one, read that again , no one suspects until its too late, they cause chaos.
M Narcissism and CC PTSD walk hand and hand together as cause and effect.
While one demands to be noticed and filled up by anothers efforts, that action causes its victims to shut down into disassociation at its extreme. Happens on a micro and macro level to varying degrees. The hyperviligent anxiety provokes a love of money to use as a tool of destruction or a tool to alleviate suffering.
These Cain types of competition crushing their
Way with little regard for loyalty and no gratitude present themselves cloaked in appearances as they manipulate with fear , obligation or guilt, telling their victims what to think and feel.
Some ppl believe no such animal exsists without a conscience, but turning some one over to their hearts desire is proof monsters are real..
Jesus never required all that symbolism and regalia. He did not require a prayer repentance, he said come follow me see what im about. TRUTH unframed and RIGHTLY placed COMPASSION. Mitigating Justice are heavy words. . Victim and Survivor are heavy words too. The trauma that leads to self isolation and suffering for no good outcome must be the worse. Love requires sacrifice with compassion and demands the Trurh to come forward. .
The desires that are good and right are desires our CREATOR placed on our hearts, regardless if you had never heard like the native Americans for example.
So much desensitization and noise pollution in this 7th fire age we are in.
Thank you for this forum.