Paedophilia and the Church
It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation’s demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe’s many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons. The recent spread of claims into the Netherlands, Austria and Italy has analysts and churchmen wondering how deep the scandal runs.
Pretty deep, actually. What sort of stupidity is it to demand celibacy as a precondition for being Holy? I mean, where is that indicated in the Bible? You force men to be unnatural and they’re going to be … er .. unnatural in what they do, aren’t they?
As far as I know, the men who molested me when I was a boy weren’t Catholic. They might have been. All I know is that it was a pretty horrible thing for a boy to have any association with men in a sexual context. If you want to know why your humble blogger is uber-hetero and goes on about women the whole time – this is why.
For some reason, movements like the Scout Movement and churches seem to attract these people – Scouts was where I also encountered molestation and it was so bad that when my parents visited me one camp, I asked them to get me out of there but I wouldn’t give them the reason why.
And the worst of it is that it then creates perpetrators at an early age. Even though I wanted out of that camp, I still penetrated another boy in my tent and I can’t remember if he penetrated me. I think I stopped him. It didn’t help that I was at a public school either where the only people I saw were other boys. So all my hetero was done in primary school, then came secondary and then the hetero started again after that with a vengeance.
Whither the Catholic Church?
This has been a long time coming, this crunch and the Catholic world has been set up. The enemies of Christianity saw a perfect opportunity here to associate, in people’s minds, Christianity with paedos and hey presto – here it is, scandals supposedly “sweeping the world”. No wonder Andrew Scott is so vehemently anti-Church although he’s not Catholic.
The Catholic Church has had the Borgias, the ten worst popes of all time, the P2 scandal, the assassination of John-Paul I, Opus Dei and so on but despite the most earnest wishes of the godless, humanist, PC global socialists, this scandal is probably not going to bring down the broader church, in the sense of people’s core beliefs. In a spiritually bereft country like the UK, it’s hard to understand but there are still a lot of devout people out there and the forces of darkness haven’t killed their essential faith off yet, probably because it happens to be based on truth.
Nor will it be killed off. The greater the persecution, the better Christianity thrives and in its purest sense too, stripped of the livery, the gold-plated finery and the gobbledegook.
Stripped of the paedophilia too.
Christianity, belief in the nation-state, the family, mothers and all the other good things in the world are wonderful means by which to put a spanner in the works in the advance of the new feudalism and anything which puts a spanner in that is to be supported. The moment the enemy forces everyone into the godless, relativistic, multi-cultural, PC mindset where the only god is money and his high priest is shopping on credit, people are ripe for the picking.
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The only thing I got in the Scouts, was a bad case of scabies… unfortunately, no one offered me buggery as an alternative.
Bravo James… an interesting, insightful and heart-felt post. As you can see from some of my posts, the problem doesn’t seem to stop at the Catholic Church
Harry.
I have always had a problem with church rules not reflecting the faith they are promoting.
Having been born and raised a Roman Catholic I know full well there are at least churches as such – the power crazed control freaks of the Vatican and the church hierarchy, the grass roots church of the devout and mainly good and the ones who mouth the words because that is what they have always done. Much the same can be said of any religion.
I wanted no part of any of it and and am perfectly happy in my atheism.
Given me godlessness any day over a faith that has promoted and participated just about every evil you can think of
Strangely enough it was mentioned in church this morning that, when the bamboo curtain came down, the Chinese church went underground and has flourished.
Please, jams, don’t think that God promoted the evil but that it was done by men, sometimes acting in God’s name, it’s true, but never at his command.
In addition to Liz’ comment it is people who promote evil because they have been influenced by an equal and opposite other than God.
Why belief in the Nation State? Can the Nation State be a fascist state? Is (the nation state) necessarily a good?
Chrisitianity is not Catholicism – if Catholicism has let you down – why not just be a Christian? Why do Chrisitans have to be Catholics?
Surely the ‘Socialist, PC members’ aren’t money-obsessed – surely they are the Capitalists? You seem to be a victim of American Mcarthyism.What’s wrong with being politically correct, as opposed to being overly politically correct?
And what’s wrong with multi-culturalism? That is, what is wrong with living side-by side with other cultures? Are you saying we should onlu have one culture? I find your comments a little troubling.
Don’t you think that the Pope covering up paedophilia means that he is a bad man? And therefore why give him your tacit consent by being a Catholic if he truly is God’s representative on earth?
I’m not Catholic.
I have very specific views on Ratzinger and his antecedents which there’s no point stating here and now. Cherie hit it in her comment.
Poor John-Paul I.
Multiculturalism, like everything else – Muslims, number of Martians, whatever, is a matter of numbers, influence and attitude. Acknowledging that and that there is a problem is not racist or peoplist or any other epithet one cares to hurl. There are demographic questions when you mix peoples with no thought as to how and for what.
In Australia, for example, there was an influx of Germans, Italians and Greeks in the first wave but they wished to assimilate and get on, both embracing the Australian Anglo culture and also imparting much which was rich from their own. Good scene and few have any trouble with it.
The next wave were Asian and the same thing happened. They didn’t skulk in ghettos of their own choosing [although the authorities have much to answer for] but assimilated again.
For some reason, over here, there is a much nastier cultural aspect. The Muslims here are radicalized by the MCB and the Imams, those of other cultures are also aggressive and it comes back to the three-pronged question of numbers, influence and attitude. Peter Hain took me to task for suggesting the mosques will come down. There is a complete difference between people worshipping in their own churches and having twenty or thirty Imams calling across London and Leicester in the wee hours of the morning through amplified prayer calls.
Where I was living for twelve years, this was natural and normal – it was their land and it fitted their culture. Fine. In London, it doesn’t and it’s a serious imposition by another culture and not even a nice culture at that. The question of the position of women arises for a start so it’s amazing that lefties embrace Islam and at the same time embrace feminism.
Classic liberalism requires that people be allowed to do as they please, as long as it doesn’t negatively impinge on others. In the UK, multicuturalism very much does impinge because it’s been used as a political weapon by Labour [openly admitted by them] to reconstitute our society and to ditch our heritage, which DOES exist, despite all the denials by the unpatriotic.
And no, I’m not a sad case. I support my country and family, that’s all and it is the greatest hypocrisy that anyone from another country where they equally embrace their own heritage should question us doing the same.
So your comments trouble me far more than mine should trouble you. It’s all a question of moderation in the end, moderation and reasonable limits.
When in Rome….
….or go back home.