My opinion regarding bishops attached to abuse charges

I am writing this to give my opinion about bishops who are, with good reason (not witch hunt false charges), attached to the sexual abuse charges of either covering up or, equally as bad, being negligent in overseeing the purity of spiritual subordinates.

I believe every one of you who covered up or who looked the other way, or who should have investigated but did not, should offer your resignations. This is why.

Being a bishop does not, no matter how much the verbiage and process sound like it, confer higher status or spirituality. I'm saying this in comfort, not in criticism. You must not become so attached to the responsibilities, authority and prestige of being a bishop so much that you view stepping away from it as a diminishing. The highest genuine honors of serving God, and one's flock, is to be a parish priest or priest to a community, or even the contemplative life.

If any of you bishops (including ones who are not in some sort of hot water) cannot follow the imagery I am going to offer you, you have to do some prayer and soul searching.

Imagine that you are no longer serving a bishop's capacity, but you are back to being a parish priest, or one attached to a seminary in a formation capacity, or even entering contemplative service in a monastery. How much of this image makes you feel diminished? Compare this to the feeling of release and of being freed of burdens that separate you from first hand contemplation of God through celebrating the Mass, hearing confessions, prayer, etc.

It is not just humility that caused many saints, when priests, to literally flee when the role of bishop was thrust upon them. Most saints genuinely preferred being parish priests, or members of a community, or contemplatives than they did seeking that princely office. Some of them feigned madness or stupidity to avoid it ha.

If you are really in service to God and his flock, most of you should feel that if your bishop responsibilities were taken from you, that it would be a relief and that once again you are getting down to the brass tacks (American slang for back to the basics, the fundamentals). The more a person seeks being a bishop (or outside the Catholic church, giving themselves that title) the more I wonder why they are seeking it so very much. Usually the answer is that it is viewed as a promotion.

Friends, brothers, though, remember one thing. A promotion upward in human circles is usually a lateral promotion or a downward promotion away from God. Layers of artificial concerns intrude upon even the most well meaning bishop's office. If you stop thinking of a bishop's chair as being a promotion or "increased authority," you will move closer, again, to God. This is why I think this is a valuable mental imagery exercise of visualization for even well functioning bishops who are serene and capable in their calling. Once in a while remember that it's not really a promotion and, further, the most humble duties of a priest is usually that which is closest to God's heart.

I hope that you have found this helpful.
Honoring always JMJ.

Another child murdered, dumped in the trash

How long? How long must we sing this song?

How long are our children victims of the perverts who rule, one way or the other, and destroyed?

When will the beast within human beings stop being fed?

One of Satan's secret techniques

I'm going to clue you in on one of Satan's favorite techniques for tempting people to extremely grave sin. Those of you who are prone to cults need to take special note of this, as you surely have or will experience it. The consequences are dire.

Satan "rewards" people who commit sexual, violent or other abuse against men, women or children of God with an extremely heightened pleasure feedback. Often the abuser has a heightened sexual arousal by abusing a person of the faith than even a more physically attractive ordinary person. There is no secret to that phenomenon because biologically it is the attraction of the "forbidden fruit." To put it bluntly, molesting someone committed to God is "off limits" (obviously) but then to the broken and fallen state of so called humanity, it makes this offense even more erotic and attractive to potential abusers. Drug and alcohol usage is guaranteed to be a factor in destroying the normal boundaries that should exist, so do make note of that too.

So the biological and broken psyche reason for all too many to be tempted to abuse someone of a holier or even "just" a different faith or spirituality is not the secret and is not a mystery: it is explained, as above, through sheer horrible human biology, broken psychology, addiction and sinfulness. What is the "secret" is that Satan gives a special zetz (to use a Yiddish word), a special zest and erotic supercharged power to those he is able to tempt to such an action. That's what takes it to the cult level.

In war, we all know soldiers and pillagers who have gone raping and abusing, targeting the vulnerable, and a small segment of them have always sought out nuns, children at religious schools, etc for abuse. That's happened throughout history and also recently in India. However, here is the difference. That's violent, sinful and supercharged "normal" depravity of humans that explode in certain circumstances, such as war and riots. These guys and gals (yes, even women do it) typically do not "go home" and continue on that pattern (assuming they are not caught and prosecuted).

Cultists, however, succumb to Satan's extra sexual and sensory temptation, and they now make abuse of people of God an ongoing addiction and pattern. Those people will continue to sexually abuse those who belong to God because Satan gives them an extra sensory "reward" and they become addicted as if with the worst of all drugs. Now they can hardly stop and if they cannot physically abuse, they find other ways to do it (such as porn, or through sadistic manipulation of the victims' lives). They codify this abuse into their cult beliefs, telling themselves they "must" do it, for whatever stupid and evil self rationalizing they muster up for themselves and each other. You'd think that women would resist this, but cult women can be some of the worst of the pervert enablers. This is because Satan tempts them too, as he did Eve, through the power of the "apple," so to speak. They feel heightened in their so called "powers" by encouraging the men (and some women) around them to visually or literally violate others who belong to God, feeling that drags their victims down and elevates themselves.

So Satan enhances the regular brokenness of such humans in three ways. One is he gives an extra sexual and other biochemical "reward" to those who abuse the holy, or the spiritually different. Two is he tempts the person to rationalize it and even codify the abuse until it becomes addictive ritual and never ending. Three he destroys the morality compass of women who would otherwise oppose this behavior, by tempting them to believe they are reincarnated divinities, high priestesses of whatever, or some other power centered "spirituality," just as he so easily tempted Eve in the first place with the same kind of logic.

Most Christians feel more comfortable with a scriptural basis for even my lessons that are based on psychology and understanding of spiritual forces, and rest assured, there is scriptural foundation for what I am explaining to you here. Read Daniel 13, a story many of you are familiar with, but this time, read it with the explanation I have given to you in mind and think about it.

This event is not included just to demonstrate the endurance of a virtuous woman, Susanna, or the brilliance of Daniel in uncovering the guilt of the two elders who abused her. This event merited inclusion in the Bible-the sacred word of God-as an example of how such temptation by even the supposedly "holy" (the elders) to commit shocking abuse on even the most holy (the married virtuous woman) through the power of Satan enhancing "regular" lust and sinfulness. While Satan is not mentioned by name, make special note of Daniel 13:9:

They suppressed their consciences; they would not allow their eyes to look to heaven, and did not keep in mind just judgments.

Satan is the one who gives ordinary humans (especially the fallen "holy" such as these elders, who are judges in the service of God after all) to have the power not "to look to heaven." Can you imagine being a holy person, committed to being of God's and then being able to resist looking toward God? That is the great temptation of cultists and Christians and indeed all of the faith or of pretend faiths, and Satan provides that power.

When you read what happened during this historical event, you see the rapid progression that only Satan can provide. The men quickly go from plotting to visually abuse her, physically abuse her if they can to immediately seeking her death as a result of their false witness against her. This is not a peep show problem, or even the classic creep rapist or war time abuser. These elders, judges of God, immediately decided to try to have her put to death when she refused their advances. Instead of "snapping out of it" and coming to their senses at seeing her pain and virtue "the two wicked elders also came, fully determined to put Susanna to death" Daniel 13:28.

This is why God raised up the holy spirit of Daniel, when he was a young man, and he confronted the elders and the crowd of the foolish who were so quick to enable the false charges. Inspired by God after Daniel proved Susanna's innocence he said:

"Your fine lie has cost you also your head," said Daniel; "for the angel of God waits with a sword to cut you in two so as to make an end of you both" Daniel 13:59.

Daniel is not referring to the Mosaic law to put them to death, which is indeed what happened. Daniel is referring to the angel of God (the form of God that speaks through the angel of judgment at death) who will make an end to them both by casting them in hell (thus ending their souls through eternity in perdition).

You need to read this as a "case study" as to how cultists and tainted religious are tempted and enhanced by the power of Satan to rapidly agree to and become blind to the escalating sin and dire consequences of abuse of the innocent holy or the spiritual "other." It is a hallmark of Satan to enhance the physiological, biological, emotional and neural temptations of humans as a prelude to then "justifying" it by making such addictive ongoing abuse an "alternate theology." If these elders had not been caught by Daniel they would, of course, have continued such abuse and have done the most ungodly rationalizing most sacrilegiously in God's very name. This is precisely why God would not allow it in this case and raised up Daniel, not only to prevent this travesty, but also to be in the sacred scriptures as warning of the dire consequences of that very temptation.

Beware, beware, beware.

"The female of the species..."

I have never underestimated the potential for cruelty from women, and how easily it evolves from the bullies in school. Here is an inevitable example.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/women-the-new-pimps-in-human-trafficking-trade-20090212-85zr.html

Women the new pimps in human trafficking trade
Yuko Narushima
February 13, 2009
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WOMEN are emerging as the pimps of the global trade in humans with a third of countries reporting more female traffickers than male, a United Nations study shows.
The first international report into the scope of human trafficking, published yesterday, found a disproportionate number of female perpetrators, more than in any other crime, selling other women into slavery in countries including Australia.

Too much false shame, not enough real shame

The human body and its functions, both those of intimacy and those of natural processes, are nothing to be ashamed of. It is ironic that rather than being more enlightened in this regard people have become laden with shame about the human body.

The reason that is happening is that people lack enough shame in how they promote usage of the blameless shame free body. For example porn and sexually explicit entertainment people ought to be ashamed that they are promoting exploitation and degradation of the human body and its functions.

It is one of the great lies that those who use sex in entertainment are "celebrating the beauty of the human body." That they are most certainly not doing. What they are doing is pimping for sexual dysfunction and promoting amateur and professional sex trade mentality. THAT is what they should be ashamed about.

Thus, let's look at stalking. The person who is photographed naked by a stalker has nothing to be ashamed of, although embarrassment is natural among many people who are so cruelly victimized. However, the stalker is usually the first hypocrite who claims that the human body is "beautiful" and "natural," but what they do with the exploitation of both the victim and the viewers belies their proper placement of shame.

Everyone in the media, including advertisers, who focus so much on nakedness, intimate acts and bodily functions in the flogging of their products claim they are just "getting the information out there" and being "liberating" because there is "nothing to be shamed about." They are being deliberately deceiving. No, there is nothing shameful about nakedness, intimate acts, or bodily functions, but their explicit marketing of them for money, entertainment, or cruelty is degrading to humanity.

Here is an example that is separate from what I am speaking of, but will best explain through analogy my point.

I had a dear friend, a man, one who is remarkable in both being a "regular guy" and also his very interesting life experiences. He's a guy who one would never run out of fascinating things to talk about, what he has done, who he knows and his interests. But he decided to no longer be a guy of many interests, but he is now "gay." His entire identity and all he wants to talk about with me is gay, gay, gay. In other words, rather than being a composite of being an average guy and an extraordinary guy, with tons of dimensions, one of those dimensions being that he is gay, he has packaged himself and will only communicate with me as being one dimension, being gay.

Suppose you had a friend who was a shoe maker. What if he refused to speak to you unless it was about shoes? EVER. He dressed like a shoe, lived in a shoe, would only speak in words that have to do with shoe or rhyme with shoe, and refused to discuss any topic that does not involve shoes. This is what my gay friend has become. He has no identity or interest in life except being gay.

This is what it is like when people claim they love the human body, yet then exploit it constantly in the media, and personally. It is a warping and a skewing of what is only one thread out of the total fabric of life. Sex, being naked, doing intimate acts and having bodily functions are only individual threads out of the entire fabric of a man or a woman. Coarse and exploitative entertainment, advertising and stalking pull that one thread of life out of context and rub people's faces in it repeatedly, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again until they have ruined the "naturalness" they claim to tout.

This is how my gay friend is. I wish I could just go to a restaurant with him, discuss his car or his airplane, shop for clothes, or just hang out together and discuss how one's day went. But all he wants to talk about is gay, gay, gay. He's no longer an uncle: he's a gay guy. He's no longer the guy who smiled about his first car: he's a gay guy. He no longer wants to talk about himself, unless it is about how he is gay. Before he broke off with me as a friend I would have to strain to find ways to discuss being gay with him for hour after hour after hour. Literally, he would insist on speaking of being gay for hours on end and refuse to make even one sentence comments on any other subject. I'm not joking when I say that I think he has studied if he can replace the entire twenty six A through Z English language alphabet with only the three letters A, G and Y. Likewise, I think that he no longer wishes to use the numerical digits 1 through 9 but only the numbers 6 and 9. I'm not joking.

Likewise the constant pimping in the media of nakedness, intimate acts and bodily functions render humans into nothing else but skin bags, rectum holes (for sex or gas) and pimps and procuresses (that's an old fashioned word for female pimps) for 'careers' or 'self images' to the young to think of themselves that way, as pieces of a whole rather than the entire human being.

So no, there is nothing to be ashamed about in the human body, but yes, there is something that everyone should be ashamed about, which is the dehumanizing of the the dignity of the human body in an overall life context, and not as a weapon or recruiting agent in a visual war of coarsening dehumanizing.

For church sex abuse survivors who avoid church

I've blogged about this subject before, about this terrible blight of priest or other religious sex abuse in the Catholic Church. I understand the trauma (and have discussed my credentials for why I understand on all levels) and have given counsel, both secular and spiritual, about how to heal and recover one's balance in life, even though the past can never be erased.

Having said that, I need to have an urgent word with those of you who avoid your Catholic devotions, such as going to church and the sacraments, and who may even have stopped believing in God.

There is no reincarnation, and there is no guarantee of "later" in anyone's life. All one needs to do is watch the news and see how suddenly there can be no "tomorrow" for someone. One must be in a constant state of being "alright with God."

If you think that deciding whether to believe in God again or to observe the sacraments and worship him is something that "can wait until you are ready, after you have healed," that is an attitude that is incorrect, and not the attitude that believers of all faiths have had throughout history as they have endured abuse, slavery and even genocide in their lives. It is a survival trait of humans and a reality that they separate belief in God from human induced horror and abuse in their lives, whether the abuse is by a religious or by a secular. If humans abandoned belief in God whenever they were traumatized there would be no religions at all today, and no human society either.

No matter how broken you may feel, refusing to believe in God is simply not a rational option.

As regular readers know, I am not being unfeeling on this subject. It is because I care that I will always be honest with you for your own good, just as I've had to be brutally honest about the physical reality of hell with many who have refused to believe and who have acted accordingly.

It is essential that no matter how one has been abused or harmed that one continue to believe in God and find a relationship with him because you have no guarantee of "tomorrow," because that is the reality of life, where death is unpredictable and certain for all.

Children, those of you who can no longer enter a Catholic church and worship God because you have been sexually abused, I have to wonder if perhaps Christianity is not for you.

(Yes, I hear the thump of good priests fainting or perhaps screaming as they reach this part of my message...)

But I am serious. If you have been sexually abused and can no longer enter a Catholic Church and have lost your faith in God, then I am not sure that you ever really believed, or perhaps were robbed of the chance, to understand Jesus Christ, who was tormented and crucified despite being of total perfection, sent by God, to heal and save, and who committed no crime or fault of his own.

When Jesus resurrected and returned, did he say, "I no longer believe in humanity because they unjustly tormented and killed me? And therefore I will no longer save you?"

Therefore, when humans abuse other humans, why would they then turn to God and say, "I no longer believe in you."

If you in your pain and focus on your own counsel and healing cannot understand that Jesus Christ resurrected and returned for forty days, undaunted, to save humanity and provide the path to God, then I wonder if perhaps Christianity in general just does not resonate with you.

This is a very serious problem, then, because whether you believe or not, God is still there, and will be faced at some point when your life ends, and of course, God wishes to be with you throughout your life.

I therefore wonder if perhaps those of you who can no longer "stand to be in a Church," and question your faith should consider studying Islam.

I would rather see someone who is so wounded and lacking in structured belief in God as a result of their trauma of sexual abuse consider converting to Islam than live a godless life. A godless life is a lie because there is a God, whether you believe or not, whether you are too wounded to believe or not.

Think about it. If you cannot see the truth of what I say, that the entire premise of Christianity is that Jesus loved and saved despite how he was scorned, tormented and killed most unfairly, worse because of his existence only being for the benefit of humanity, then I wonder if Christianity just is not for you.

I am certainly not turning you away. I am talking to those who are keeping themselves away.

Rather than stay in the lie of no longer believing, serving and worshipping the one God who continues to most assuredly exist, even if no human exists at all, perhaps you should consider Islam.

I hope that you have found this something that you will give careful thought to. God cares about each individual and desires their return. But God also continues on in eternity for all time, regardless of what one human believes or not. It is more important that you re-establish your relationship with God than continue to try to make a point about your woundedness. There is nothing that a human can teach Jesus Christ about being unfairly wronged. If that is not your understanding of Christianity, then you need to connect to God nonetheless, and perhaps Islam will be your way.

And who knows, if you realize that you have exiled yourself from the Church in your woundedness, and spend some time looking at Islam, you might miss home after all. But that is not my objective, for you to comparison shop. I am addressing those of you who have unwisely severed your understanding of God due to the trauma of your abuse. I think that you most certainly can reconnect with God through Islam, if you remain immovable regarding your home Church.

An exercise to help traumatized keep God in their lives

You tend to see three kinds of people with three different reactions to a horrible trauma or loss in their lives. The traumas I am speaking of are things like losing a loved one in an accident, a fire, to illness, or being the victim of a crime or some other form of deeply traumatizing abuse.

The first group are those who have a deep faith in God, and that is not shaken even after the trauma. They may, of course, question why this happened, and the larger meaning within the body of their faith, but they do not diminish their connection to God. Many, actually, feel a stronger attachment to God.

The second group are those who have faith in God, which they may have felt was deep prior to the event, or it may have been a moderate or nominal background belief. Individuals in this group feel anger at God that is beyond the normal "getting back one's bearings" after the trauma and often deny God, blame God and as they often say "no longer believe in God" or have "lost their faith."

The third group are those who are mostly secular in orientation. Thus when they have a trauma they tend to interpret the trauma and their reactions using a philosophical and logical attitude, which may or may not help. For the many that it does help this is because they retain their focus on the facts, which is that a fellow human, or a factual circumstance (mechanics, illness, accident) caused the trauma. For those who find they cannot fully feel better and heal by focusing on personal philosophy and facts, some feel a calling to God (a second chance at life after surviving their trauma), while a small number harden their stance that there must not be a God because a "good" God would not allow these things to happen anyway.

Just in the past week we have seen in the news examples of all three.

Now, this is the point that I wish to make. I want to address those from group two and group three who feel even farther from God after a trauma than before. I have here an analogy, an exercise, to help you to understand that this is not only a matter of faith, but that such a reaction, carried to an extreme, is not rational.

1. Suppose that you have been kidnapped and abused by a gang. Would it be a logical response to no longer believe in the existence of police?

2. Suppose that you have been injured in a car smash and are lying, wounded, in your car, or on the side of the road. Would it be a logical response to no longer believe in the existence of ambulance crews? And if, when the ambulance crew shows up, would you say that your wounds are their fault?

3. Suppose that you are trapped in a building that is on fire. Would you lock the door on the firemen who come to rescue you, saying that you no longer believe in them? Would you say, "Well, you obviously must think that fires are a good thing or you would not have chosen to be firemen in your career?"

4. Suppose that you or a loved one has been sexually abused. If God came to comfort you, would you say to God, "Go away... I'd rather stay here with my living abuser." Rather than accompany God and abandon either the continuing reality or the living memory of the abuse, would you cling even tighter to the ongoing endless loop of the abuse, and refuse to go with God and thus start to leave the abuse reality or the grip of its memory on you?

5. Suppose you saw terrible things done by humans to fellow humans in times of war. Seeing just what humans do to other humans, would you continue to then "cast your lot" with humans alone and remain in their value structure, at their fickle mercies? Why is it a logical decision when repelled and abused by what you witness in a war to remain even firmer in that milieu, and refuse to find refuge in the values of God, which are far, of course, from the evil that humans do to each other?

It is important to be sympathetic to reasonable faith being reasonably shaken in horrible circumstances.

However, it is not helpful to enable illogical thinking. If one is horrified by what humans do to fellow humans, why would you reject being more of the values of God and less of humans as a result? By any measure that does not make sense, and that does not promote healing.

This is why I have developed this exercise for you to think about when you experience a trauma, or have already done so, or read about one in the papers, or hear about it on the news. Think of the trauma and the factual human/mechanics/biological cause (taking a leaf from the wise people of group three). Then think about how for every trauma there are fellow humans who try to prevent it, even if their numbers are few and their voices not heard. This helps you to recall that trauma is a human/human situation.

Then contemplate how illogical it would be for the trauma sufferer to further "endorse" the existing situation by rejecting the only alternative to human failures, which is God's realm, where there is no death, or suffering, or betrayal by loved ones. Why would you draw strength by only believing in the half of life where there was such a dismal failure or tragedy?

I do understand the pain and I hope that this helps.

Cultural diplomacy tutorial case study Part 1

I was listening to a talk show, and there was, by one of the guests, a mention of what he thought was an ironic contrast. The commentator was annoyed that some people make "value judgments" regarding "gay marriage" while the "same people" are "silent" about issues such as "female genital mutilation." Whoa, that really got my attention, since he did a bit of a rant about female genital mutilation (also incorrectly called female circumcision), accusing liberals of being soft on horrors such as this that he says they rationalize by calling it a "cultural" context. So I realized here is a great case study about cultural diplomacy.

Let me start by saying that female genital mutilation is never right, it is an abomination, it is not rationalized at all in the Qur'an, and it sprang up as a local cult belief among some tribal regions in Africa. I do not agree that either side, liberals or conservatives, are ignoring this issue or giving it a cultural "free pass." I do not agree AT ALL. I've seen great work and education by both "sides" of the western political persuasions. But here is what is missing. Both sides lack tools, understanding and adeptness at how to conduct cultural diplomacy.

Once a practice has taken root over hundreds of years, one cannot go in and argue that it had no legitimate foundation since unfortunately, there it is, and often large parts of the ethnic society are now structured around this belief. So even if you bring in Muslim scholars and elders to dispute the practice, that often is not a help except to guide when a decision has been made to actually stop the practice. In other words, religious leaders and elders from other villages or tribes can help facilitate the change and problem solve the process once agreement is made to abandon the practice. So how does one get a village, just to use an example, to abandon the practice?

The most common error by Westerners is to not 1) identify what cultural value the village is attempting to protect through the practice and then 2) propose an alternative activity or solution that protects the value without continuing the practice. Westerners often let themselves be blinded by the horror of what is being done, without considering what "horror" the traditionalists are seeking to avoid. Here is what I would do.

First of all, I would identify what cultural value they believe female circumcision is promoting or protecting. It is obvious that dialogue would reveal that the value they are attempting to protect is a girl or young woman's virtue. Many of these customs developed because they believe that 1) if sexual delight is destroyed in a girl that she will not have extra-marital sex and thus 2) in the marriage contract men can be assured she is a virgin and that she will not stray in marriage. As a result they do draconian things such as not only removing the clitoris, but they also actually sew up the vaginal openings of girls, barely allowing urine or menstrual blood to pass through. Needless to say childbirth and all natural functions become painful, infected and life endangering.

Arguing that this is unhealthy, painful, cruel and not a guarantee of virtue is mostly futile, since all the elders have to reply is "Well, we are still here, are we not?" So long as the population thrive, they will be fearful to remove even the most draconian practice. Westerners have no valid answer to the argument that their population is thriving (even with misery). Thus, what I would recommend is to agree that virtue is a valued and prized objective, and propose alternative ways to achieve it than female circumcision. Rarely do you get anywhere by jerking the rug out from under them, convincing them that it is "wrong," but then not replacing it with a new and powerful cultural practice that is consistent with their beliefs.

An example of an alternative is to propose that they create a system of "virtue chaperons" that girls can join at the age when circumcision would have been performed. Women, such as teachers or elders, could have a responsibility for monitoring the virtue of young girls who are joined with them in such a relationship. For example, a girl could be offered the alternative, circumcision or joining this kind of virtue guardianship. So while a girl might give up some privacy (perhaps agreeing to forgo some activities that circumcised girls could attend), she can avoid being circumcised. When the village has had a chance to see side by side girls who opt traditional and those who opt for the new virtue guardianship, and see that it works, they will not fear putting circumcision aside. Remember, those cultures have different views of privacy than westerners. Young girls would not mind an "auntie" kind of "virtue guardianship," even after they are married. Good health practices can also be taught, but be careful not to dive into western birth control and other ideas if they are not welcomed yet at that time. But what I am saying is that the virtue guardians can have a warm role, such as helping with a young girl's health questions, helping with babies when she is first married, that is more than a compensation for the "lack" of privacy, that is questionable in its cultural context anyway.

Young men, potential suitors, would be more likely to value a young girl with a certification of virtue guardianship than one that is suffering and mutilated. Once trust is established that virtue is being monitored (and the virtue guardians provide genuine helping hands to the young couple and family), it becomes win-win for all, while still preserving the cultural imperative to protect virtue.

I hope that you have found this case study of cultural diplomacy to be useful.

Candid talk about sex mental disorder

When I was doing some counseling and spiritual direction some years ago, I met some people, "online" who have an increasingly common sexual mental disorder.

(If you are sensitive, and I totally understand, as I'm sure tired of talking about it, don't read any further, as this will be a candid and somewhat shocking blogging).



These people are totally obsessed with oral sex, both homosexual sex and heterosexual sex. They are obsessed in two ways. One is that they are unable to put genuine encounters that they have had in context. For example, they cannot forget or move on past youthful (or drug fueled) experimentation. They "rerun" the tape of each encounter over and over, and insist on hinting about it to everyone they meet, but don't actually come right out and discuss it. I spent months of very frustrating time online with them, based on friendship and genuine concern, and I tell you, at this point, I don't even want to see a cat licking itself, I grew so sick of the subject. Here's what is strange and rather incestuous. Their families, including parents and aunts, encourage and participate in the oral sex episode obsession and reiteration. The Bible has something about that, about aunts who ought to keep themselves covered around their nephews, but hey, these aren't Bible geniuses. My point is that obsessing about oral sex, especially the homosexual kind, totally overwhelmed large parts of these adult men's lives, encouraged by "intimate" relatives. I'd worry about any children around them. Am I worried about molesting? Nope. What I would worry about is that they would see a caution sign for a railroad crossing and think that it is a picture of a big dick. Really, they have filters on their eyes and brains, and an inability to process normal life and thoughts, without including some obsession about oral sex.

One day... and this would be a funny story if it was not so pathetic... I was out hiking in upstate New York, and was in sparsely populated farm area. I "ran into" a middle aged woman on the path (to my surprise, as few but the occasional bicyclists were around) and she promptly steered the conversation to her son being "gay" and "what would God think of that." Um, like I said, the pee pee organ being used for yum yum is constantly on their minds and of their enabling relatives. I explained that God is not thrilled, but it's far worse if they promote that activity, rather than keeping it to themselves. She was actually unhappy with that answer. Um, would you like your mom or your auntie thinking about what sex organ you stick where? If my parents ever gave any thought about any part of my intimate life, it would give me the creeps. Anyway, so that is the first point, that these people, the men I talked to and the women who enable these obsessions about behavior that every generation of human has had to struggle with, only increases mental illness, not decreases or "eases" it. I've even blogged that Jesus didn't care what sex positions the sinners had (like the woman by the well with "five husbands). Nothing gets through to them (except, I guess, constant oral sex images).

The second problem is, not surprisingly, they are in the "communications" business. Yep, you guessed it. They "work out" their obsession by including meat pole (pardon my bluntness, but that's a terminology I actually had to learn in the course of trying to help these people) allusions in commercials, videos, advertisements, music, talk show and every little thing they get their mitts on. Since I know these people I have to cringe now, on just about a daily basis, as I see "well, where did they work the meat pole reference in today? oh yeah, 'there it is!'" The problem is, while they "work out their problems," they are flooding young people with subliminal (and not so subtle) sucky sucky on the big thang messages.

Please pray for these people. Really, I've been able to do nothing to help and if anything, all I am is a target for the enablers to obsess more and more (like I said, I can't even 'take a hike' without a dirty mommy wanting to talk gobble gobble about her son). Yeah, right on time, I just heard a reference from one of them on one of their regular radio shows.

Understanding the unthinkable, child sex abuse

I see that pervert has been sentenced in San Francisco. I have very fierce feelings and absolutely no sympathy for viewers or purveyors of child porn, say nothing of the people who actually perform these acts on children. I've written about this topic before, but because it is such a complex topic plus many people today lack some basic understandings of human and animal nature, I try to identify building blocks of topics with which I can raise your consciousness and intellectual discernment. So here is another component to the unthinkable but ever growing problem of child sex abuse (and by abuse I include porn, because there is a continuing victim, "a crime scene" behind every photo, its trading, purchase and viewing).

Everyone with an education pretty much understands that humans belong to the evolved animal kingdom. In other words, humans came about through evolution just as did the animals, and that human ancestors were indeed animals (mammals). A mammal is an animal that gives birth to live young who are dependent on the mother for milk. So humans in their present form came into being as they evolved from early mammalian animals that branched into primates (the apes, monkeys and humans). Thus humans lived, evolved and grew under "animal rules" of life for all of their existence until they became aware and developed the intellect and ability to manage life and create civilizations. That, however, is a "recent" development on the scale of how long proto-human life has existed. So humans were living like animals, since they were still of the animals, for millions of years, until a time that is hard to define but definitely within only tens of thousands of years ago.

So how did sexual desire and reproduction evolve and function in the animal kingdom? Basically only behavior that was "pro life" and biased toward successful bearing of young and raising of them in the environmental setting was allowed to exist. There is a great check and balance within how life in general operates. For example, if animals run out of food that they can forage for, they die. If a population of animals becomes so small that a mate cannot be found, then no young are born, and eventually the population dies out. This has happened millions of time through the history of life on earth. Different species of animals come into being, thrive for a while, evolve, and either have successful descendants or die out in entirety.

Sex is not done for pleasure among animals, and it is a highly regulated activity. "Sexual attraction" means that an animal receives a cue from an animal of its opposite sex that it is "in heat," called estrus, which means it is capable of bearing young at that time. The form of cues have evolved and they involve everything from scent to certain display behaviors. Thus even elaborate courtship rituals and displays are not intimate or sexual, but are part of the signaling of being prepared to be a mate with the result being successful birthing of young. Animals tend to focus their intimacy in other ways than estrus based sex (which may happen as rarely as once a year for a minute, depending on the breeding cycle of the animal... the pandas are an example of the rarity of a sexual encounter and its matter of fact nature). Instead of utilizing sex, for which they have no drive unless they are in estrus, animals share intimacy through other actions such as grooming, nurturing of the young, and play. Another example is the living of some species in extended clans, colonies and pods, where the collective communion of their group living is, in a sense, an intimacy of familial and species connection. So sexual intimacy is virtually unheard of in the animal kingdom.

Now here we can show the first example of what would happen if a "child pervert" mutation sprang up in a given animal. Suppose a defective gene caused an animal to suddenly "view" pups in a "sexually available" way. That individual and defective gene would die out and have no possibility of being passed on to a future generation. Why? Well, think it through, it is obvious. First, the defective animal would signal willingness to mate with the pup, but receive no corresponding signal in return. Second, the parent of the pup would chase off and kill the defective animal, not because of "morals," but because adults who hang around pups usually want to kill them as prey. Polar bears are an obvious example of where mothers must keep their cubs away from any and all adult male bears, since pups are just viewed as potential food. Third, let's imagine in order to help you think through the human example of the child pervert that the defective animal is able to "molest" the pup. Well, obviously since the pup is not sexually mature, no offspring result and the defective gene of child perversion dies along with the individual who has the gene whenever that animal reaches its demise. This is why there is no "child pervert" attraction in animals except in individuals that have become environmentally or genetically dysfunctional.

So any animal behavior that one may observe that is latched onto as "an example of sexual attraction to the young in the animal kingdom" is fallacious. Why? Again, think about it. As I explained, if there is a genetic defect in the wild, it does not get passed on because it cannot be passed on either physically or "culturally." It dies with the unsuccessful mating of the defective adult. Anything you see today is in the zoo. Now, the zoo is a totally artificial environment that does not recreate, no matter how expansive or cleverly designed, the conditions of the wild. Let's use the pandas as an example. In the wild pandas can go for a year without even seeing another panda. They may occasionally encounter the scent of another (and that is one of the ways they can determine the once a year sexual receptivity of a potential mate, by "smelling" that the female is receptive because she is in heat and can produce an egg for fertilization).

In a zoo, think about it. Even if the animals are in separate cages they hear and smell each other constantly. So false clues and "cues" of sexual receptivity (or not!) are constantly emitted and received. How do we know that pandas, in this example, maintain their ability to distinguish between the scent of a receptive female from one that is not when they are constantly exposed to the cumulative effect every day of the year? I'm not making a scientific statement, but I am teaching you how to think this through: what differs between the zoo conditions and the wild? So you can see examples either way, again, just using pandas as an example, even though this isn't what actually happens with them. Two pandas may, through smelling each other constantly AND through their scent accumulating year round in both of their quarters, may not be able to distinguish genuine estrus time or not. So if someone observed "inappropriate" sexual "attraction" it is almost certainly due to the confusion of cues and the constant unnatural close confinement. An adult animal rubbing against a pup in such a situation is not "reinforcement" that "loving children is natural" for the perverts who scan animals and look to justify themselves. Any sexual behavior that is not the norm is the result of unnatural breeding conditions with the reinforcement of false and inappropriate cues.

And that is what has happened to humans, which is why there is such a high rate of perversion and why it is so tolerated in this society. Humans have smeared themselves with constant sexual cuing. They have taken what evolved to be a wonderful gift of pleasure that is meant to bind the family unit of adults to be able to bear children on a monthly basis (and thus there is really no estrus period for humans, as they are always sexually available once they are adults in their reproductive development) and made it into a self created zoo where totally inappropriate cues for inappropriate sexual activity and attraction are not only shared but actually forced upon society as a whole. This is why a growing portion of humans have become child perverts and I cannot begin to tell you how dangerous this de-volution (yes, not evolution, but dissolving of evolution as in devolution) is to all of humanity. Humans have broken away from natural and balanced behavior and cues and instead have unleashed a totally mutated society that reinforces false and wrong cues.

Women especially must bear a lot of guilt. They should have known better when they themselves suffered from being raped, and the charges dismissed because the cops or the judge thought "you asked for it because you dressed provocatively." Yet you buy products, including media, that provide visual cues that children, even babies, are "available" sexually. I cannot express how disappointed I am with women. It's one thing to totally sexualize adult society, and that is bad enough because it breaks down the sense of a cyclical availability of sex and thus a mind set of self restraint in a male. But women have by allowing themselves to be sexualized have made it so that the average male is surrounded by sexual cues so that the "obtaining of sex" is constantly on the mind of many men. (And increasingly women as they become child molesters too). Animal pups and young do not give off sexual cues except when they become adults and are ready to mate. Humans never used to seek out imaginary sexual cues from infants and children until they became saturated in sex and vice cues and stimulation and the penalty for such behavior does not scare them into stopping. The animal equivalent is the mother polar bear who would rip the head off of a defective young male polar bear who sought out her cubs (for any reason). Defective sexual interest in human "pups" is often undetected, is constantly reinforced and pandered through media, porn and sexualized society, and the danger of child porn has been underestimated until very recently. I'm not saying to kill everyone who views child porn (though wearing my biologist hat I have to tell you that it would be the way nature would work if humans were still part of nature). But I am explaining to you that there is absolutely no biological, spiritual or moral justification for child perversion, porn and molestation. You can now see more clearly why that is as I have stepped you through "how life really works" and the example of the problem of promoting false cues in the compressed and unnatural society that much of the world has now become.

I hope you find this helpful and if so, I will write more on this topic. This example, I think, is a very important start, especially for you young people who are readers of this blog, to put together the pieces and perspective of how society has gotten into the very dangerous mess that it is in today.

Aborters kept mum on disabled girl's incest rape

And you wonder why pro life people are so indignant that aborters happily abort girls who are under age and/or disabled and refuse to report such obvious crimes, returning the victims to the men who exploited them and brought them in for abortions.

And yep, her own father raped her.


http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/disabled-womans-rape-not-reported/2008/08/27/1219516614634.html

A MELBOURNE abortion specialist was one of several health professionals who did not report the rape of a severely intellectually disabled woman when the perpetrator was insisting on the termination of her pregnancy, a tribunal has heard.

Dr Patricia Moore, an expert called into review the case of a late-term abortion performed without legal consent, yesterday expressed shock that so many people who assessed the woman's pregnancy did not act on the fact she had been raped.

"There was obviously evidence of sexual abuse that was not investigated by many people before the final episode," she said. "I started to wonder if a special procedure had not been performed if any of the professionals would have addressed the issue of sexual assault."

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It is alleged Dr Schulberg performed the termination at 25 weeks without gaining legal consent through the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, a legal requirement for an adult who is intellectually disabled.

It is alleged he did not contact police about pregnancy when he should have known she was incapable of consenting to sexual intercourse.

The woman's father, who helped organise the abortion, was convicted of the rape this year and sentenced to a minimum of seven years' jail.

The board heard the woman's father met at least one other doctor and social workers to discuss the termination of her pregnancy before he met Dr Schulberg at his Croydon clinic.

None of the health professionals took any action to find out who had raped the woman, despite some of them acknowledging that she was unable to consent to sexual intercourse, the board heard.

Analogy to understand damage of porn/child porn

I had already signed off for the evening but when reading another horrible news story about the rape and murder of a six year old girl, I thought of an analogy to help you social libs to understand why porn, especially child porn, is so dangerous. (This is totally beside the fact that porn is not "victimless," since obviously a child was victimized in the producing of it, and is re-victimized each and every time the porn is distributed and viewed).

Those of you who engage in outdoor activities are aware that there is a constant danger if a predatory animal, let's say a bear or a lion, loses its fear of humans. The bear or the lion then starts hanging around human areas, possibly raiding houses and garbage. They become a "nuisance bear" or a "nuisance lion." We read about this all the time. Often what animal control officers will do it trap the nuisance animal and move it to a remote area, if it does not seem dangerous.

This is the erroneous image of porn viewers by libs. They think that it is "private" behavior and if it is a nuisance, then you take away the porn or isolate the person from potential victims.

The correct view of porn is the third step in the "normal human fearing predator" to "nuisance not human fearing predator," which is "the predator views the human as potential food." Animal control officers know that a predator, again, let's say a lion or a bear, who attacks, draws blood and takes a bite out of a human now views that human as being a newly discovered legitimate source of food. Animal control officers now know they must destroy the animal, since it is no longer a "nuisance animal" but a "human killer." The old fashioned term for a lion who did that was a "man killer."

The viewing of porn changes the wiring of the human brain so that acts they would never have thought of doing, like the predatory animal, now becomes viewed as "feasible." So libs are wrong to think that porn viewing, especially child porn, but even "regular" porn because of its continually message of "all sexual partners open access all the time," falls in the nuisance bear or lion analogy, and needs to just be "managed" or "limited." Humans have NEVER been "programmed" to think that sex is "always available." Porn has destroyed human mental wiring so that there is a (and that's why they are called predatory) predatory of the eyes and the libido that is exactly the same as an animal that loses its taste for normal animal prey and now thinks that humans are a food option.

I am not exaggerating in the least. It has nothing to do with being a prude. It's understanding the incredible damage that has been done to everyone's brains by the proliferation of pornography, and especially child porn.

For example, I read about an ex-cop who took home child porn evidence instead of destroying it, and used it to feed what became, allegedly, criminal sexual abuse. I have long worried about the damage to law enforcement, juries and others who must view this material, by the way. I don't worry they will become abuses, but viewing that material, even in the course of law enforcement or social work and counseling, has the same brain wiring changes, and at the very least adds to what I would call intimacy stress in normal adult relationships (and also around one's own or other children, as one may even become too cautious and compensatory in result of viewing porn).

But back to the important point, which is the porn user and producer. Viewers of porn and especially child porn (which is hard to avoid as models are either young or "young appearing") cross a built in boundary in their human brain wiring when they view porn, just as does a bear or lion who takes his first bite (even if it was accidental or self defense at first) and realizes that humans taste like easy to catch regular food. A human killing predator's brain wiring is instantly changed the minute that it realizes that the humans they feared are actually easy to catch and consume food. That is why animal control officers must kill them.

Another example is sharks. Experts explain that sharks think that human legs, arms and so forth might be legitimate prey since at a glance and with poor eyesight they look like fluttering fish. Sharks often take, experts explain, a "test bite." But most sharks quickly realize that the test bite is of something it does not want to eat. Sharks do not have that instant "brain wiring change" that land based predators have, like bears and lions. Sharks mostly look for a "profile," which is small fish and only the very largest go for an animal as big as a young seal, which still is very different from the profile of a human. So sharks do not tend to become "human eaters" since the human is large and not fitting the profile of what they want to (or need to) eat, which is mostly fish.

So the human porn viewer is not able to reject the "test bite" the way that a shark rejects human hunting because humans do have a "response," which is arousal, upon viewing porn. It "feels like the right food," to use the shark analogy. So like a lion or a bear who accidentally discovers that humans can be killed and eaten without fear, humans instantly have a brain wiring change when they view porn.

The first instant brain change is that sex flips from being "an occasion" to "something continually available." Animals, including humans, used to be controlled by an estrus period, which is where there is no sexual drive except during a cyclical period of fertility (for both male and female). Humans evolved to be sexually available outside of the monthly estrus cycle, so humans lack the biological barrier to the "continuous sex wiring" that porn induces. Society evolved so that men were very motivated to marry young so that they have sex made available to them, with their spouse. Jokes aside, this was more than adequate for the vast majority of humans in their existence. And of course there was the prostitution option, used by humans who are far away from their spouse (military service, travel, etc). So while humans had a continual interest in sex that was freed from estrus cycle, their brain wiring preserved a self control and a sense of timing where sex was not ever felt as being a "continuously available option." Men did not walk down the street thinking of humping all the time. So porn instantly flips the actual wiring of the human evolved brain (especially of men, both straight and gay) from viewing sex as pleasurable but linked to time and occasion to being a constant "availability" where like the air that you breathe, you expect it to be always "available" with no limitations. Porn creates a mental wiring dysfunction that no longer matches historical or present reality.

The second implication of this porn induced wiring change is to "expand" one's view of what is prey in ways that biology and social imperative would never have allowed. While there has always been the occasional child pervert, trust me, it is only this generation that gets an erection or gets wet when viewing a child in a sexual context. While Freud was shocked to find much incest in upper class, and humans do have self control problems, the VAST majority of families always had men that simply lacked ever thinking of their babies or children (or anyone else's) as something they might get sex gratification from. If you went back in time and suggested that to someone, you'd be killed, such would be the authentic revulsion. But porn changes that. Porn presents a whole new class of "prey" to someone who now thinks, through their new wiring, that "prey" (sex) is continually available.

This is also a reason why many humans have trouble being serene in their sex lives in a normal setting. This is also one reason why straights are tempted to gay behavior (I'm not talking about someone authentically gay, but I'm talking about "anything goes" "experimentation.") Again, I'm not being a prude. I'm explaining that a more conventional arrangement for sex within marriage gets truncated before it reaches its full potential for joy because porn destroys the wiring to look at "expanded and continual prey," to use again that example. This is where the lion or bear example breaks down, which is instructive in and of itself. While a human killing lion may now start hunting humans instead of water buffalo or gazelles, the lion's brain is not changed so that all they think about is having one kill after the other after the other. Human killing lions start to hang around where they can prey on humans, but they don't view themselves as "missing out on something" if they don't get a human kill every day or every hour. Lions still maintain their dietary habits as far as how often they hunt and how much food they need to live. Humans totally lose that editing in their porn addled brains. Humans, even if they are not aware of it, now feel like there is something "wrong" if they are not availing themselves of sexual gratification as often as possible and in every way possible.

That is the roots of the great addiction of porn. It breaks the fullness of intimacy within the conventional relationship before it can even flourish and then enslaves the human brain to both consciously and unconsciously always scanning for sex objects and visual if not instantly physical gratification. Humans lose what we call "the custody of the eyes," but they have long ago, upon the first regular viewing of porn, also lost "custody of their normal human brain."

Understanding this you can now understand why I so oppose the proliferation of erotic presentation of advertising, television, movies, video games and so forth. You can now understand that it is not me being "a prude" but because the brain damage is quick and is often irreversible, because there develops a mental frenzy of "sex seeking." One's activities then become more and more self reinforcing of the problematic path. And if someone tries to control custody of their eyes and minds, so that they don't see the neighbor's school child as someone who "turns them on," up pops some celebrity slut or video game or whatever to continually sexualize the brain's patterns of perception. So it is a struggle for even the most honorable human (men in particular) to maintain a normal and healthy view of sex, one that can be fulfilling based on exactly its appropriateness, and NOT its rampant inappropriateness.

When you have a choice in your jobs, choose the less sexualizing product. You know who I mean. And people must stamp out the proliferation of porn if they are to survive into the next century, and I'm not joking. Sexual insanity is not a survival trait.

I hope you find this helpful. It's one of the worst of our problems in global society, and its much more dangerous than you all realize.

Inspiring story about refusing abortion

If ever anyone had a good reason to request an abortion, this young woman who was gang raped certainly has it. Yet she allowed the deepest and most profound goodness that humans are capable of to enter into her soul, and she decided to have and raise the baby. This is "must" reading, especially for young people who have grown up taking abortion for granted. Even in the worst of circumstances, a baby is still a baby, loved by God and ready to be loved by you, even in the worst of situations. God bless this whole family.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1043041/At-16-gang-raped-left-pregnant-Now-mother-explains--Why-I-love-rapists-baby.html

Some priest abuse advocates miss the point

Here is a good Aussie article wrapping up the final day of the Pope's Australian visit. It includes news that the Pope met with and celebrated Mass with four priest abuse victims. It also has the surprise and excellent news that Mr. Rudd has appointed an Australian ambassador to the Vatican.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24057138-662,00.html

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OK, some people are not going to want to hear it, but it is the truth and they can't ignore it.

Groups of priest abuse victims and their families are expressing very tasteless and frankly, erroneous, criticism of the Pontiff's meeting with four victims of priest sexual abuse, and not doing something "large scale" and more of a "venting and problem solving session."

While I have enormous sympathy for the abuse victims (and yes, I have my *street credibility card* of having been abused, though not by priests, so don't tell me I "don't understand"), and I have blogged spiritual direction and practical sympathy about this situation, I am astonished with disappointment by the mean spiritedness of certain very public advocates of the victims.

I can understand that the experience has derailed some people's ability to understand religion and faith in God itself. I do understand that. But I don't think THESE people realize themselves that they are derailed from understanding the continuation of normal faith in God and the religion. We can't cancel Masses all around the world because "people have been hurt." The Pope is not going to stop saying personal Mass each day because "people have been hurt." We are not going to "fire" every cardinal and bishop that made a mistake, even an awful mistake, because "people have been hurt;" this is a church and not a corporation.

The Pope says Mass every day. Every Pope celebrates their own personal Mass at the beginning of each day. There are moving pictures and descriptions of Pope John Paul II doing so, for example. They do it in their private chapels when at home and in the private chapels of Catholic residences when traveling. Some invite household members and special guests. Pope John Paul II, for example, "started his day," so to speak, with his celebration of his daily personal Mass with his household staff.

Pope Benedict XVI had his normal, first thing in the morning private Mass, in Australia, each morning, just as he always does. At the last Mass the morning of his departure he had four selected priest sex abuse victims attend the Mass with him.

I will be a DARNED SON OF A GUN if I sit here and listen to the mean mouthers (and you know who I mean, one person in particular) characterize the Papal private Mass each morning as a political and "media" event that "left out" people who wanted to have their rant and yes, obviously, fact finding and suggestions.

I WILL BE A DARNED SON OF A GUN if I don't point out how ungenerous these critics are at painting four invitees to this precious Mass (that most Catholics would do extreme things in order to be invited and attend... I myself would have loved to have been at one of Pope John Paul II's, but I never was) as some sort of "non complainers" who are now "OK with their sexual abuse problems" (WHAT?) and that this was a media show.

YOU OUGHT TO WASH YOUR MOUTHS OUT WITH SOAP.

To portray the morning daily Mass by the Pope and his inviting four abuse victims as guests as being cynical and manipulative is so outrageous that if this were still a time of dueling I'd slap your face with my glove and use a water pistol with vinegar (you know, a reminder of JESUS CHRIST, you know, JESUS, the guy the Pope serves each day, whether you have other plans for the Pope that day or NOT?????)

Show some class and honor the tragedy of what has happened to your family members and try to regain your dignity and remember that this is still worship of God that continues, not Church, Inc. or Church, Ltd.

You may feel ignored and you may have "great ideas" but if you forget for one second that this is a CHURCH who has the "business" of worshipping God, how good can your reform ideas be? I pray it's not just about the money for certain of you. You rob the people, the victims, who have been grievously harmed of their dignity by your showboating over the grace of invitees to the "regularly scheduled corporate activity of media manipulating"... oh wait, that's right, it's not a media event, it is the MORNING MASS, God's MASS performed by the Pontiff every morning right after he gets out of his jammies.

So I'm sorry, but we are not going to close down the Church because "something bad happened." Something bad happened in the Garden of Eden and God did not shut down humanity, though he had many very good reasons then and now to do so. So suck it up please. I know you are hurting but gosh, when I was abused I didn't expect every "person in that category" and "example of that institution" to shut down or to revolve around me forever and ever, even though I had really darn good ideas about how they need to reform too.

Another massacre by a hot head young man

Just some observations about the massacre at the Atlantis Plastics plant in Henderson, Kentucky, rather than repeat the news about it, since there are many articles you've probably seen.

1. A young man with a short fuse who carried a gun (legally) in his car.

2. He is angry at his supervisor not for being treated cruelly, but because the supervisor was trying to enforce safety standards for this young man's own protection (to wear goggles, and to not use his cell phone on the assembly line). You care about your employee's safety and you get killed. This is a "no good deed goes unpunished" attitude that I have been on the receiving end of and I know quite well.

3. He slays men and women, no difference, no caring.

4. According to news reports he's been busted for drinking and pot use. You think?

5. Four of the dead are Catholics in the same parish. But they are Latino so the conservative commentators won't care about them because after all, Catholics just want "the Mexicans here to fill our empty church pews."

6. He tells his girlfriend he is going to kill his supervisor and she doesn't tell anyone and lets it happen. (I'm sure the women's libbies will jump to her defense making up battered woman syndrome or something, without her even being identified in the press or any details provided). So another woman is enabling a boyfriend's violence.

7. Conservative talk show hosts spewed the most vile venom all day today about the Supreme Court ruling that it is unconstitutional to give the death penalty to a child rapist who has not committed murder. Hour after hour of the most vile imagery to "illustrate" their "indignation" that the Justices "don't think infant raping is a crime," yet no ranting or raving about our increasingly insane society where a hot head pot head kills five people at work over SAFETY issues, and himself, and how about what THAT means for society. Not even a pause in the degrading attacks on the Supreme Court justices to talk about real degradation of rage filled maniacs who kill for no reason at all. Just another day in paradise, I guess, to these conservative morally high minded talk show hosts.

8. By the way, conservative talk show hosts. I have a challenge for you. Since you are all so high and mighty and moral, I look forward to you leading the charge to have every state pass a law that a child rapist receives life in prison with no chance of parole for the first offense. You want the death penalty, you say, yet there is no state that has automatic life for child rape with no chance of parole for the first offense. I look forward to seeing your citizen involvement and loud mouthed moral indignation state by state on this issue.

9. One slain victim is named Israel, just a sad side note.

Prayers for all the families who lost loved ones in "today's massacre," and for the colleagues who have now suffered through their personal "911." I know the feeling and I hope that you turn to God for condolence and comfort.

Addendum

Since people have been so interested in every aspect of my life, including my brand of toilet paper, here are the facts about why I married in haste.

1) I escaped one attempt to abduct me in my home town when walking home from school. I was around 13 years old, 7th or 8th grade. The man twice attempted to pull me into his car by "offering me a ride" and the third time was filled with rage and hate, his face distorted with rage, screaming at me to "get in the car!" He had to drive off and circle around every time a car approached; this is why there were three attempts as I tried to get home. So he followed me until I was able to hide in a neighbor's garage. I got his license plate number but the police told my mother "they couldn't do anything with only the license plate information." Mom and I both knew that was bull shit, and knew the local police were covering for whoever it was. That same year a young girl was raped, murdered and left in the cemetery of the nearby city.

2) I escaped a second attempt to abduct me when in university. I was traveling on a bird watching camping trip, and while sleeping in the backseat of my car in a rest stop, a truck parked in order to cut off view of my car from the highway. Thinking I was asleep he attempted to silently open my locked car. When he went back to his truck for a tool I climbed over the front seat, started the car and was able to drive away around the truck.

3) In my university apartment, where I lived with 3 girls who were classmates, a neighbor knocked to tell us that there was "something outside of our door." It took us a while to figure out what it was, because the neighbor's dog had gotten at it. It was a condom filled with rotten chopped meat.

4) One evening the boys who were neighbors on the other side of our apartment forced their way into our apartment as me and one of the roommates opened the door. They were drunk and threatened to rape us. My roommate was unbelievably shy and epileptic, and was traumatized to the maximum. I was not enjoying myself either. I was scared for my roommate as much as for me. We could not get them to go. He actually caught me looking at a brick on the bookcase out of the corner of my eye and threatened me with violence if I moved toward the brick to defend us. (I've since learned martial arts and will never get caught eyeing a weapon by an assailant again). One of them took great pleasure in explaining that even if we called the police after raping us, that they were "hooked up" with the local police and it would do us no good. This was Ithaca, New York by the way, if you are interested in the history of corrupt cops, in the 1970's. We finally got them to go, unharmed except scarred forever.

Now, I may not measure at the highest IQ on a standardized test, but I'd have to be a moronic idiot to not realize I was being targeted deliberately. Notice that two incidents have the complicity of the police. This is why I married the first protector I could find (though he turned out to be a total mess, due to alcohol and being a closeted gay).

So I hope those of you who look down your noses at my having been married can have your laugh and shut the **** up, because God will chastize you, as he has and will do so even more, the people who stalked and harmed me.

Think how many family members of your own have been molested, since this type of behavior was condoned toward me. I hope all of you are very pleased with yourselves and where this society has gone into the occult filth sewer.