Today was an eventful day in the Australian Federal Parliament. The prime minister and leader of the opposition apologized to the survivors of sexual abuse in this country. Led by “respectable” men in orphanages, churches, schools, institutions, explorers, camps, their homes, and elsewhere, they were innocent children expected to be protected and loved. Instead, they were abused, malnourished, used for sex, and much more.
Some stories are heartbreaking but all are gruesome. Hundreds of priests, teachers and community leaders who used them and then threatened them, the majority have escaped prosecution. At least one has been appointed to a higher position in the Vatican.
In the Catholic Church they were made to feel guilty and even had to confess their sins to their abuser in confession. How sick is that?
The abuse in these places, however, is not just sexual, as many suffered discrimination and the lies that they are unworthy and will go to hell. As a non-Catholic in a Catholic school, my own experience was extremely painful when the class was told that people like me could never go to heaven and that anyone who associated with them would go to hell.
With the memory of my reincarnation and a bond with the Spirit of the Universe, the real God, there were many times when tears flowed freely and resentment and other things welled up within me. Most of my early years there were spent with very few friends or even feeling worthy enough to talk to my classmates.
The question is what does the word sorry really mean? Have we become so insensitive to reality that we can submit to magic and feel that term heals wounds? Isn’t that what happens when we use chosen words like ‘thank you’ and ‘sorry’ as if we are casting a spell on someone?
Perhaps it is time for us to wake up and start questioning religions and the institutions that support them. What is it that protects your evil and overrides your common sense? In my experience and through research throughout my life, the answer is “power and control.” That is what governments require and what organized societies survive on.
No matter how many times you hear the word “I’m sorry,” it will never eliminate pain or return your mind to normal. They are still subject to the brainwashing mind control they have endured since childhood. What would be much better is to overthrow the ridiculous for a better understanding.
Heaven and Hell are myths and weapons of religious terrorism. Every abused child along with those who suffer discrimination perpetrated on the grounds that unless one belongs, you are an outcast who can never heal. They are haunted for life by their experience and, unless and until religious organizations are called in, the behavior that caused their pain will continue. No word can erase it.