Catholic Dichotomy of Females & Abuse of Children
Guido Cagnacci: Allegory of Human Life (1601-1663)
*Updated 6 March 2019*
The Italian painter Guido Cagnacci encompasses it all in his beautiful painting which depicts the “cyclical regeneration of life out of death”. He knew the realities of life and death. His nude woman was the personification of beauty and fecundity, fundamental to the eternal cycle of life and the antithesis of patriarchal Catholicism. The Church created the dichotomy of the female; the virginal mother vs the whore. Easy to commit ‘sins’ against the worthless latter and be forgiven in the confessional. Within the flawed doctrine of Catholicism this is implicit.
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See posts: Are We But a Flock of Sheep? & Saint? Pope?
& Australian Royal Commision into The Institutional Sexual Abuse of Children
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The power brokers behind the Vatican machine are very astute. Every so often they target some obscure person for beatification; the penultimate stage before sainthood. They don’t have to pay millions of dollars for publicity and enhancement of Catholicism because it is all free once this ‘news’ is released to the Global Media. But the global congregation is growing weary of the sheer numbers of abused children. The Dead Sea Scrolls have revealed that so much of Christianity is based on fantasy. The canonisation into sainthood scams regarding the 19th Century cardinal John Henry Newman and Sister Mary MacKillop are nothing but pathetic attempts at diversion from the sexual abuse of thousands of children by Catholic clergy around the world and especially recent revelations in Belgium, Ireland and Australia. This has been going on for centuries but in the past the Church always covered it up. Priests’ sexual gratification and its secrecy was paramount; children’s welfare wasn’t an issue. The Church just ignored the abuse and shifted the offending priests around the parishes where they carried on with their proclivities. Perhaps The Church’s fantastical teachings made it easy for priests to delude themselves into believing that they weren’t really having sex with their child victims. It was ‘fallen’ women, those evil temptresses, that they had to avoid. I cannot believe that this vast Catholic scourge can simply be labelled ‘paedophilia’. It is much more psychologically complicated than that. Catholic seminaries are not suitable ‘educational’ and religious institutions for teenage boys and young men, where only males of all ages reside in monk-like living conditions, and where apparently acts of ‘homosexuality’ are rife.
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Sexually abused children suffer and grow into adults who continue to suffer for the rest of their lives, that is if they haven’t committed suicide; and by the way, suicide is another sin in the eyes of the Church so the victims are condemned to “go to hell” as if they haven’t already been there. In some cases priests refuse to bury them! Little Boys are as fair game as little girls; in the latest investigations into the Belgium abuse cases involving Catholic clergy, girls and boys from two years of age were repeatedly raped. Celibacy is a joke and the Vatican’s continued stance on celibacy, that Jesus (if he existed at all) was celibate, is rubbish; it is written that he married twice and fathered children. His second wife was called Lydia, but Mary Magdalene, his first wife, was always labelled by The Church as a prostitute and Mary, mother of Jesus, was promoted to the pedestal of sainthood and mother of God because, The Church’s doctrine would have us believe, hers was an Immaculate Conception. Some parts of Catholicism were taken from paganism so they had to have a replacement for the ancient mother goddess such as the Babylonian Ishtar. In the grottos around the Middle East whatever figurine of a goddess was in residence, was removed and replaced with a statue of the Virgin Mary.
In Australia in 2013, the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, began. One of the most disturbing conclusions to come out of the hearings, was that the Catholic Church hierarchy, in Australia, believed the sexual abuse of prepubescent children was paedophilia, but that the sexual abuse of adolescent boys was homosexuality, which was a sin, and that priests could be forgiven after prayers and penance. Even allowing for this very Catholic distinction, no action was taken against offending clergy between 1950 and up to the time of the Royal Commission. In fact, the Royal Commission exposed gross failings by Catholic priests, bishops and archbishops to place the welfare and safety of children before the protection of its paedophile clergy.
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**See my memoir HERE: Whatever Happened to Ishtar? – A Passionate Quest To Find Answers For Generations Of Defeated Mothers.**
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