The Church is a sinner, set up by sinners and followed by sinners. In fact, the membership to this club is only for sinners. I say so since the Church itself has declared it as original sin, also called ancestral sin, which is a doctrine of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man, stemming from Adam and Eve's rebellion in Eden.
This week we saw the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in the UK apologising to survivors of abuse, as the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) prepared to publish its overarching investigation report into the Church of England. Thousands of young innocent children sexually abused by the ambassadors of Christ. And this has been happening for many years. It seems theircollective sins overflowed to such a degree that even theall-powerful Church was unable to contain it any longer.
Of course, the same is true for the Vatican and the Catholic Church, lest people think it only happened in one part of this sinful man-madecreation. In 2014 the UN accusedthe Vatican of "systematically" adopting policies allowing priests to sexually abuse thousands of children. Think about it, the Vatican, the abode of the infallible, accused by none other than the UN of systematically creating conditions whereby the representatives of Christ on Earth could abuse children for their own deviant and perverted sexual pleasure.
Abuses by the Church have been on-going for centuries. Do you know that it took several hundred years for the Church to figure out what would go into its Bible! Yes, and they want you to think that’s the word of God. It is nothing but the word of men, men who want to control the masses by putting the fear of God into people. And by putting the fear of God, I mean the sheer brutality of the Church, the wars it took part in and engineered through the centuries, and the decimation of countless civilisations and its people in the name of their ‘loving’ God. Look around you, and you will see utter devastation by these sinners who in the name of their religion took it upon themselves to convert the innocent by any means necessary, and to destroy any culture that stood in its way. Is there any place in the world where the sins of the Church cannot be seen?
I often wonder if the Church is in partnership with the devil. Of course, the devil is a creation of the Church as well. It’s almost as if the devilish behaviour is encouraged to sustain the narrative of the Church.
The IICSA reportstates, ‘the context of child sexual abuse, the Church’s neglect of the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of children and young people in favour of protecting its reputation was in conflict with its mission of love and care for the innocent and the vulnerable’.
In the words of Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, ‘The report published today is a stark and shocking reminder of how so many times we have failed — and continue to fail — survivors. Apologies are vital, but they are not enough. We have to listen. We have to learn. And we have to act’.
The Church stands exposed, but lest people forget, in the name of religion abuses of many types has taken place across the world. I am a great believer of human rights before religious rights. The law must ensure there is no get out of jail card for those who use religion to disguise their crimes.
