I fucking hate the way church people minimize abuse.

February 29, 2016 by Healing From Complex Trauma & PTSD/CPTSD

I try to avoid the Royal Commission, as it is so triggering and upsetting. But, Cardinal Pell is all over the news at the moment.

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/cardinal-george-pells-memory-fallible-as-royal-commission-testimony-begins/ar-BBq7wTd?li=AAgfYrC&ocid=U206DHP

It is so fucking typical of church people to minimize and invalidate their abusive actions. ‘Mistakes were made’. FFS. It wasn’t ‘mistakes’ it was ongoing severe abuse. Denying child sexual abuse by the paedophiles they were enabling and protecting. Treating the victims in a disgusting manner. For decades. That wasn’t a fucking mistake – it was deliberate, intentional, planned and cause massive devastating suffering to all the victims and their families.

This is the one of the reasons, they treated the victims so badly and protected the paedophiles….. and this is abuse – right there in this sentence. Emotional, mental, psychological and spiritual abuse…. for decades.

Abuse ^ from paedophiles and their enablers.

 

Minimizing and invalidation is abuse in itself. Denying it, to protect the church. Considering the Bible speaks of being truthful, they are fucking failing miserably in that. Still.

I’ve noticed a lot of church people choose minimizing as a way to deal with church abusers. My counsellor does it. She minimizes abuse by church people to ‘funny thinking’. It’s not fucking funny thinking, it’s abuse. Mental, emotional & spiritual abuse to minimize the suffering church people inflict on victims.

I am so fucking over church people minimizing abuse.

They wouldn’t know the truth, if it got up and smacked them across the face.

And with their abuse, they have no conscience, no remorse, no empathy, no guilt, no shame.