I have always found your profound understanding of religion and
religious abuse very helpful.
Not exact matches
If anyone else wants to come here and «apologize» please don't embarrass yourself, or insult the emotional intelligence of the
very bright and empathic people here, many who have faced real
abuse at the hands of
religious leaders.
your understanding of the change process is
very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of
religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of
abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.
We need to honestly address what «Christ - like» means in the face of a
religious leader facing some
very serious accusations of
abuse.
This is the
very environment that has been responsible for the wide - spread covering up of
abuse in a number of
religious institutions.
So far this caveman is flying his airliner quite well, outing himself as a «Godder» («a theologically
very liberal Lutheran») and parachuting into topics as various as Pentecostalism in Brazil, secularity and ultra-orthodoxy in Israel, homosexuality in the Anglican communion, the sex
abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium, Max - Weber - style «value free» sociology, and (a special interest of his)
religious humor.
This is particularly true for many
abuse survivors or extremely
religious women who are
very shy and punitive towards themselves about their bodies and it can be extremely traumatic for them to be a «spectacle», particularly if many young students are in the room, men are in the room, or the woman did not authorize it or revoked consent and was ignored.
Connelly has a harder job here, as Emma has to be alternately worried and angry, supportive and contrary, determinedly
religious even when that means condoning the schoolroom
abuse of her skeptical child by a
very serious Reverend Innes (Jeremy Northam).