What came to me is that religion wants to be separated from the people in the church, each and every time a scandal darkens it by one of the congregants. It is then there is a separation between religion and the people who worship it.
What is it? Does it stand separated from the people; can you add it on and take it off at will? Is it within the walls of a church, where is this religion that stands alone?
If the people are not all representatives of the religion, then where is it?
When I discussed the pedophiles within the church, they make it seem like those folks are not representatives of the religion, that they somehow are now separated.
I just can’t see where you can take the religion out of the man…
Where is religion stored in a person, where is its compartment of being?
From my experience the religion was the man/woman. How you moved and where you went all pointed to which religion you were.
There is no separation between who you are and what religion you worshiped it was all one.
My mother made no moves without her religion.
I made moves that went against my religion and was made to feel less than, but they made sense to me, so I moved.
I was a rebel in my religion when I made decisions that went against the rules. The goal of the religion was to keep us all uniform.
What I think they failed to take into consideration is the human factor, for their religion looks good on paper but its application fails in reality.
While trying to preserve the religion they disregard the children, so intent are they on the practice of forgiving sins, they fail to see the wounded.
And the wounded fill the benches and continue to bleed upon the walls of their religion unseen or cared for.
How is that religion any different than my childhood home?
Wasn’t the cover of family supposed to protect the children?
Somehow in the minds of the people in the pews they believe their children are safe from pedophiles, while pedophiles are preaching to them, sitting by them, singing with them, their blind faith has them unseeing.
Their faith is to please God by blessing the sinners, while the sinners are free to sin against them again and again.
The blessers fail to see that the it is not working, that the tools they are using are useless to stop children from being raped.
And even more importantly, they can’t see themselves harboring criminals when they do so.
A den of criminals is how my old religion feels. One huge moving abiding blind horrifying mess.
If you can’t get the blessers to stop blessing, how in the world can you get the pedophiles to stop raping?
What tools does your religion have to stop this insanity?
How powerful is that religion if it condones this?
Who are you as you sit in the pew?
What are you truly part of?
What are you supporting?
I am sorry, but if you belong to a group that has had generations of pedophiles roaming freely, you are not in a religion but in a cult of pedophiles, that is disguised as a religious church.
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