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The Culture of Power and Hubris
Cultural clerical inbreeding has wed the "god complex" with hubris. A person who is said to have a "god complex" does not believe he is God, but acts so arrogantly that he might as well believe he is a god or that he was appointed to act by a god" and hubris applies to any outrageous act or exhibition of pride or disregard for basic moral laws."
Hubris or the outrageous acts and total disregard for moral laws displayed by today's hierarchy are readily explained by the above. Now compare the definitions above to the passage below. It was written to the members of an organization known as the Conference of the Major Superiors of Men by their then Executive Director. These words, written shortly after Boston's sex scandal broke were truly prophetic. The organization's name alone should give the reader a preview of how high they hold themselves in their own esteem. The CMSM represents all the religious orders of priests. Behold the words of those who believe themselves the divinely appointed betters of the human race.
"The days of the pass or station house adjustment for Father or Brother by the Irish cop or prosecutor are over. Either we will learn to become more comfortable in the gaze of the rude and scoffing multitude (depending on our attitude) or we will be dragged kicking and screaming into a new future for religion and religious life"8(italics are the author's emphasis)
The thought processes that allow priests to refer to the laity as the "rude and scoffing multitude" are the same ones that allow and even encourage priests to use children as sex objects. "Less than" is the operative concept; it allows the children to be treated as though they are mere baubles to be used, abused and discarded. This is the dehumanized effect: those who believe they are "better than" humanity are the ones who, in reality, lose their humanity. They suffer "the disconnect" of being separated from humanity by their vows so they had to conjure up a rationale to compensate for that disconnect. Nowhere is this false ideology more clearly stated than in Vehementer Nos an encyclical promulgated by Pious X in 1905.
"It follows that the Church is essentially an unequal society, that is, a society comprising two categories of persons, the Pastors and the flock, those who occupy a rank in the different degrees of the hierarchy and the multitude of the faithful. So distinct are these categories that with the pastoral body only rests the necessary right and authority for promoting the end of the society and directing all its members towards that end; the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors."9
Being chosen by God to lead sinners into the light goes a long way to rationalizing their separation from and superiority over humanity. But it only goes so far because it never satisfies the true itch.
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In Genesis 2, God says, referring to Adam, "It is not good that the man should be alone." In Matt. 19:5 Jesus said, "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?" Leave it to the Catholic Church to countermand both the Father and the Son just as they have done in Matthew 18 where Jesus uses his harshest language to describe the fate of child abusers. Then again in Matt: 23: 9 where Jesus says: "And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven." Isn't it about time someone read this passage to the "Holy Father"? Hubris?
Much has been written about the need human beings have for intimacy. Studies have found that human babies needed physical and emotional contact in order to thrive. The operative word here is thrive. More than that, recent studies prove the need for intimacy continues into adulthood and those who are not afforded intimacy generally turn to addictions of all sorts. God instilled in man and woman the need for intimacy. The only organization that has refused to recognize this concept is the Roman Catholic Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church came to grips with it a long time ago.
The lack of intimacy created by the unfounded and unproven beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church about celibacy has created a unique brand of both hetero and homosexuality. The clerics that rule the church have created an institution of men and women, who because of their vows, can only indulge in unfulfilled sex. Whether with one another, one night stands, prostitutes, sexual abuse of children, adults, or pornography; they are all classic symptoms of those who lack intimacy in their lives. Contrary to what the church would have us believe, being married to the church doesn't fill that void. God put two sexes on the earth so man and woman would fulfill each other. Louise Hagget's Bingo Report 10 sites loneliness as the primary reason for breaking vows and what is loneliness but the lack of intimacy.
A prominent psychiatrist who worked for the church had this to say:
In fact, statements by Dr. Jay Feierman support a link between sexual repression and pedophilia. As a psychiatrist who has met with hundreds of pedophilic priests at a Catholic treatment center in New Mexico, Feierman is in a position to recognize the connection.
Feierman says celibacy is not "a natural state for humans to be in." Pointing to the celibacy requirement as a cause of clergy abuse of children, he explains: "If you tell a man that he's not allowed to have particular friends, he's not allowed to be affectionate, he's not allowed to be in love, he's not allowed to be a sexual being, you shouldn't be surprised at anything that happens."11
"You shouldn't be surprised at anything that happens" and the RCC isn't, because it is the oldest continuous enclave for hetero and homosexual men seeking all forms of self gratifying sex. There is no other institution in the world with a longer, well documented, continuous history of the sexual abuse of children than the RCC. Their own records stand in testimony to this fact.
