I came back from Brisbane with two thoughts in mind. Focus, the business needs focus. I need focus and integration. Both business and personally. I found myself at 5.30 with nothing done other than a lengthy diatribe on the Catholic Church. It was important at the time to do; however I have not been able to come back to the work I should be completing.

The penultimate taboo, this comes from being part of something so corrupt that has never been identified or acknowledged by the church. They attempt to take the higher ground as well as put in place systems to maintain their avoidance and their responsibility. It is even more tragic that they and other religions, sects, organisations or whatever grouping you put on a group, put out that they have the answers or answers you may want is terribly wrong when they use the tool of soul, inner peace, happiness, reward, comfort, universal panacea, and it is sold in that personal and desirable way and pointed directly at the most emotive parts of us, and one that also holds the greatest fear when there has been a system of deception and abuse on the scale that is now being shown. A system does not simply go corrupt in a small and confined area such as paedophilia. A system becomes as corrupt as the religion putting itself up as the saviour of souls and then taking advantage of that over so many, and grow to be as emboldened as they have shown themselves to be".

This is a very well written document, and I will just quote some parts of it. "They have not looked for other aspects of corruption either legal or religious, they do a James Hardie and become good corporate citizens by marketing their line, $100,000.00 advertising spent by Catholic Church to counter abuse allegations. They kept the financial payouts as a sector of society, these groups and religions are unfettered and uncontrolled in any way, all their teachings and their actions, they are virtually totally unregulated. The evidence says they have operated on a myth. They have failed to adequately acknowledge the true impact of the initial abuse events, let alone the effects they have on those victims they deal with. There has been no softening. There have been no statements like the church and its well informed members will do the right thing. The Government should make the needed changes to laws to permit the church as a whole to be made accountable to a combined class action on behalf of those victims, and in a separate class action for the deceived parishioners. Perhaps a third for misrepresentation of a religion, maybe even more, they choose to act in this manner as a corporate entity.

It would simply be a legal acknowledgement of their actual legal status and subsequently their legal responsibility and accountability. These groups don't have to do much in that area because they are affectively above the law, and will and do take advantage of the unique unaccountable position, and in turn enact further abuse of the legal system by its past actions which have seen it obtaining a legal agreement which effectively allows the church to continue to disadvantage and minimise those they should be doing otherwise for. They should not pass honesty in advertising criteria. Where is the work going on to find out which of these religions is the correct one? The one that closest matches its creed. I think the standard business matrix should be able to go a long way towards defining that from fears with the religious bias removed. The argument against this would naturally follow the current, well-rehearsed and polished screen process of being fashioned from biblical statements and religious memories, and howls of protest about the loss of the good work they do. If they are based as a charity, then separate that from the religious aspect, and do that and bring that part of the business under the legal system control. God's work is not the destruction of families, the destruction of individual lives through abuses and the misuse of power. Any self-respecting church will abhor such things, and would surely be able to clearly state their goals in these areas. Where are the whistle blowers from within the church, the men and women of stature, the pillars of our society, where are the voices and the actions in this? Surely these few bad apples were not all individual isolated cases. It should be obvious that the processes set in place to deal with this are not adequate. They do not appear to have the ability to learn and to fit appropriately the needs of victims, that this system was rapidly set up and has not moved or evolved to take onboard current specialist knowledge in this area. There is persistence in keeping the structure together even when there is criticism. The aloof stance could only be held when there is genuinely felt disregard for those who have been harmed, and there is a truly non caring attitude towards those who will be harmed in the future. The churches take advantage of their ability to act as a corporation. They use the laws of the land to win advantage against those they have permitted to be abused. Religions are unregulated, uncontrolled, have no ability to prove correctness of their theory above the law of the land, and then to do deal with the high level of paedophilia, and then to deal with the ability to evade its corporate responsibility". This is from 2006.

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