Fast to Assuage THEIR Guilt
A Demoins Bishop thinks that the fasting of his flock will somehow make people feel better about not having had a clue that their religious leaders were molesting their children:
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Maybe, as parishoners, each of their members really should be repenting not have been more leary, since RELIGION was, almost from its inception, a device used to control the masses:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/693817/Jesus-Christ-HOAX-Biblical-christianity-roman-empire
There was often human sacrifice involved:
https://www.livescience.com/59514-cultures-that-practiced-human-sacrifice.html
And taking into account that the religious leaders of the time were perfectly willing to kill human beings, what could have made their flocks think that they’d scruple at rape and torture of children?
Nothing has changed. Not even religion’s penchant for human sacrifice…(ref. Bustle.com link, below)….except that maybe now, The Church has even greater gall and more of a chance at collecting even greater wealth than ever before. Religious leaders can reach a vaster audience than ever before, via internet and tv, so when they pass the collection plate, physically, and online, it returns to the religious leader with MUCH MORE MONEY IN IT than ever before.
Most of the Churches of the US don’t pay taxes, but if they paid what a business of the same size paid, a lot of revenue would be going back into the community:
https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/why-churches-dont-pay-taxes
Also, when individual citizens commit rape and murder (ref. human sacrifice link) we go to jail. For DECADES, highly placed clergy have done it and it has been swept under the rug:
http://www.brainstain.co.uk/2018/08/31/catholics-call-for-investigation-and-resignation-of-pope-francis/
https://www.bustle.com/p/nuns-at-a-catholic-orphanage-in-vermont-abused-children-for-decades-explosive-report-says-10256009 (THIS IS THE ONE THAT WILL SHOCK YOU WITH REPORTS OF CHILDREN DYING DUE TO THE “TENDER MINISTRATIONS OF THE NUNS THAT RAN THE ORPHANAGE- ref. Human Sacrifice).
I’ve had no training in Theology. I’m just a Mom, and I know that if my religious leader had violated my son, I would hope to see him/her dealt with like any other citizen, and if the law didn’t give me satisfaction, I certainly wouldn’t wait for a hypothetical god to do so………Saying more could be interpreted as a threat on someone’s life, and could get me into a lot of trouble.
Sadly, the children (now adults) who were entrusted to the care of these Catholic orphanages, had no such protective parentage. Some of them suffered for many years on end, at the hands of their tormentors, (read: torturers) and for some of them, the statute of limitations has run out. For others, there are other impediments that stand in the way of their getting legal closure.
In lieu of that, then, a Demoins ID. Bishop is suggesting weekly fasting for the entire parish, so that they feel like they are “doing something positive” to “contribute”?!
What are they CONTRIBUTING? How does anyone fasting for the sake of these now grown victims help them to get justice or closure? Statute of limitations has run out for many of them. Others simply didn’t want to be raped or tortured again, in court, by lawyers insisting on knowing names and dates of their various and specific traumas, as proof that those things really happened, when these things happened so far removed in time, and when they were at such tender ages that they hardly knew how to keep time.
If The Church really wanted to make a positive contribution, they’d be PAYING FOR THERAPY, for the victims and their families, and admitting to the crimes of their clergy
They wouldn’t be covering for their be-robed pedophiles, by distracting us with hush money payments, and days of fasting for people who had nothing to do with their clergy members’ “falls from grace” The offending clergy members would be made to serve jail time, like the rest of us, in order to set an example for the rest of us.
After all, aren’t Clergy supposed to be “closer to God” than we are?
But then, what god would have instructed them to molest our children?