Trauma in Religion
Every child has evolving capacities and rights to express their views and have freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, as outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Articles 12 and 14).
The psychological process of introducing concepts like God and the Devil to a defenseless child can severely impair the child's and future adult's ability to exercise autonomy in belief systems, potentially placing control in the hands of clerics, though recovery and deconversion are possible for some. It can be unsafe to expose children to psychologically harmful processes like fear-based religious indoctrination, which may force the child into an early life crisis with potential lifelong pressures and perceived perpetual threats before they reach a responsible age.
This control appears hijacked for the benefits of clerics and their fraternity, which has been criticized as socially and emotionally disconnected and known to punish dissenters publicly if they do not submit. Keeping this aberrant structure in place and in operation is simply the expected outcome as a result of thousands of years of such deception foisted onto traumatized bonded generations in the age of Human Rights, Democracy and Freedom of Speech.
The forms of child entrapment and bondage cited in Trauma in Religion are two specific instances of what has been reported as globally institutionalized abuse and entrapment of Catholic children (and subsequently as adults), representing a potential human rights violation and a moral danger to society and children.
These reported abuses continue in many countries across the globe, including Australia, where doctrines and dictates of the religion may disrupt the attachments children develop with their natural families, contributing to perceptions of it as socially failed.
Together, these forces can entrap defenseless and unprepared children into what feels like lifelong psychological bondage to the Catholic religion and its worldview, often seen as a willful, abusive, and inhumane act of power and control over generations of Australians, potentially opposing children's and adults' human rights.
The systemic abuse of the Rights of Children must stop.
These acts are carried out on the pretext of being in the best interest of the child yet, in fact this is an action taken firstly for the benefit of and in the best interests of, the Catholic Church and its clerical classes.
Actively undermining a child's autonomy in thought and belief may constitute a human rights violation, drawing from principles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention Against Torture.
This entrapment is often presented as a matter of parental free will, though parents may have been influenced by their own childhood experiences, potentially leading them to unwittingly infringe on their children's human rights and place them in what feels like perpetual bondage to the Catholic religion.
The result can be that children who experience such a process feel forced to attach to the most powerful perceived entity in their environment. The inability to come to terms with the depth of the deception they have been subjected to results in increasing fear and anger and under the public verbal guidance of bishops across the country they follow and support with every endeavour to silence those who are speaking out as that Catholic trait is on global display across the Catholic world today. A world where the chosen people of a mythical God simply cannot come to terms with their own sexual behaviours, social failures and the widespread sexual abuse of children.
Until the full impact on children of having concepts of a supernatural power forced into their developing minds, with threats for disobedience, is recognized as potentially abusive and aimed at enforcing submission to Catholic doctrine. Many children may struggle to cope with this onslaught without outside support. That protective role falls to governments, which have been criticized for inconsistently enshrining universal human rights across all jurisdictions.
No country can safely and peacefully sustain itself amid widespread subjugation of its children on this scale while claiming to be a human rights-respecting democracy.
No child deserves such a start in life, as this introductory concept can disrupt natural familial bonds by substituting a hierarchy and philosophy criticized as morally, ethically, socially, and sexually dysfunctional. Such a lifelong decision cannot be meaningfully made by a child, yet Catholic doctrine holds a perpetual spiritual claim over those baptized as children.
A lifelong relationship with the Catholic religion is a choice no Catholic child is free to make, let alone mature enough to make such a life choice decision before they reach the age of legal responsibility in Australia. Forcing this decision on a child under an appropriate age may conflict with the spirit of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which emphasizes evolving capacities and parental guidance.
Our laws, health, governance, education and social welfare should all protect children from such unethical and immoral behaviour. The theft of the lives of Catholic children by this socially dysfunctional culture must be controlled and managed under strict guidelines else their right to exist in the country should be revoked until they can act in accord with the rights of the child and the Universal Declaration.
Evidence shows that abuse of trust, abuse of children, and misuse of the legal system have reached high levels in Australia's Catholic Church, as well as in Rome and in many countries where the Church operates.
It is the human right of every child to be free of all forms of human bondage.
It seems implausible for the Catholic Church hierarchy to have been entirely ignorant and out of touch on the sexual abuse of children issue, given reports of cover-ups and failures in providing health, justice, and recovery for victims.
Children in the future will look back and see clearly how their predecessors have been raped and exploited for the seemingly spiritual benefit of sexually deprived clergy.
Read the original from 14 Oct 2016 here
The inability of a child to thrive in an environment marked by abuse, sex crimes and fear-based indoctrination should never be attributed to a fault with the child.
To know and understand the reality and the extent of the ongoing abuse of the human rights of children in the Roman Catholic religion is far more important to humanity than any right this failed belief system can gouge from the population so it can declare itself a child safe religion under Australian law.
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