'This is church business!'
Matriarchy versus Patriarchy (7)
Some years ago, I came across an Irish account of a priest raping a boy somewhere out in the Irish countryside. A neighbour went out to investigate and intervene. The priest memorably said to her, ‘Get back in the house, woman! This is church business!’
I found this a strange and unexpected response. But, with Ammon Hillman’s video below, it makes absolute sense. It explains a great deal: not just my experience as a Survivor, but other Survivors, too.
The video has the virtue of being brief, clear and concise . I thought it might therefore have value on X, and in this I was wrong, as I related last week.
Here it is:
The video is based on Ammon’s book, Original Sin.
He was interviewed about his book and this is an excellent summary from the interview.
The Catholic church has increasingly been accused of attempting to conceal repeated incidents of priests sexually molesting children. While more and more people are accepting the likelihood that the church has been harboring pedophiles, few people are willing to believe that the sexual molestation of children is a fundamental part of church doctrine. In his new book, Original Sin: Ritual Child Rape & The Church, Dr. DCA Hillman strikes at the foundation of Christianity, providing evidence that early priests ritually sodomized young boys during their catechism. Hillman argues that this practice was part of a cultural war early Christians waged against a Roman society that praised sex and nubile girls. He claims that early priests sodomized these boys in order to "save" them from serving in oracle cults, as these popular pagan religions required that the children who participated in their ceremonies be sexually inexperienced.
This interview is well worth a read:
Here is another relevant excerpt from it:
“The war on sexuality under the Christian hierarchy was not a war on masculine sexuality; it was a war on everything feminine.” In the book you repeatedly make the point that Christians saw attractive young women like Eve as the ultimate evil, as they could tempt young men to contaminate themselves with sex. You also point out how the Greco-Roman world praised sex and women, particularly beautiful, young female goddesses, or korai.
I’ve read the book myself, and here are some of its highlights – or rather lowlights –concerning the early Catholic Church.
The Christian man does not see the female form with his redeemed eyes. His soul is blind to sexual allure.’ – Tertullian, Apology. Tertullian is regarded as the Founder of Latin Christianity.
The promotion of early Christian anti-drug laws meant that women could be imprisoned for seeking out drugs to induce abortion or to regulate menstruation.
Drugs (‘poison’) were made illegal under Christianity and imprisonment and executions followed.
Drug users were also fined and their property confiscated. The money was turned over to the Catholic Church to expand its holy work.The application of ‘the fires of temptation’, defiling young children, was designed to prevent their possession by pagan gods.
Christian priests justified this act as a replication of a ‘mystery’ performed by Jesus himself. Ritual child rape was an integral element of the early Christian religion.
It was a successful means of rooting out the influence of female allure on pubescent boys.
‘Knowledge (Gnosis?) is a disease of the soul and the soul that acquires knowledge will perish.’ An early Christian opinion.
‘Why should you find pleasure in a young girl pretty and voluptuous? You fancy you can sleep safely behind a death-dealing serpent?’ – Jerome letter 128.
The Church reinforced the notion that women were a source of evil rather than a source of protection.
‘Women big with child are a revolting sight’. Jerome 107
St Ambrose claims in God’s eyes women are lower than snakes. In his work on virgins he states that ‘women were rightfully slaves to men.’
After the death of Tertullian, violent and aggressive Christian movements sprang up. Women were forced to wear non-revealing clothing, forbidden from using make-up and stripped of their jewellery. They were eventually limited in their ability to appear in public.
Christianity promoted the role of the male aggressor who partakes actively in the sexual act by pacifying the object of his desire.
Sacred sodomy = Purification. The rapist is the exorcist, driving out evil.
The doctrine of the Holy Ghost (see also below) allowed young victims of abuse to see their attackers, the Catholic ‘exorcists’, as saviours.
Hillman concludes that ‘Church business’ is still going on today, probably in a less organised way.
My feeling is that if Hillman can translate the original Greek and understand the true meaning of the New Testament, then so,too, can Catholic clergy and theologians. And thus a secret practice has been carried down through the centuries. The practices of an inner Gnostic circle, another manifestation of the Shadow Religion.
Today, some clergy, some monks and some Catholic laity may abuse children purely for their perverted, paedophile pleasure. But others are certainly following the way described in the video, or a variant thereof.
That is most emphatically my recollection.
It seems to be a humourless ‘duty’ of the ‘exorcists’. Taking any perverted pleasure in it is expressly forbidden.
So possibly, today, it’s 50% hedonism, which is against the Church as well as the law, and 50% ‘Church business’.
Can it be proved that organised UK Catholic abuse, Catholic paedophile rings, are still out there?
Easily.
So this is Survivor Dave Sharp’s story:
Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry: Boys raped by priests at 'satanic parties'
A child abuse inquiry witness has told how he was raped by priests during "satanic" drink-fuelled sex parties.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-48559590
Nothing has been done about it. Of course.
I’ve watched podcasts of Dave’s life, where he goes into considerable detail of how Catholic paedophiles operate.
I have other examples of organised UK Catholic paedophile rings and many more abroad. Germany, France, Ireland, Australia, the USA.
Can it be proved that ‘Church business’ is still the Catholics’ motive? That there is continuity today with those early Christian perverted practices? Yes. Here are three examples.
Firstly, there’s the film Spotlight, which highlighted the crimes of Cardinal Law. To quote Wikipedia:
He was a senior-ranking prelate of the Catholic Church, known largely for covering up the serial rape of children by Catholic priests.
Church documents demonstrate that he had extensive knowledge of widespread child sexual abuse committed by dozens of Catholic priests in his archdiocese over almost two decades; he failed to report these crimes to the authorities, instead merely transferring the accused priests between parishes. One priest in Law's archdiocese, John Geoghan, raped or molested more than 130 children in six different parishes in a career of 30 years.
One of the Survivors whose story featured in Spotlight came up to Ammon after he had given a talk.
The Survivor said to Ammon, with tears in his eyes: ‘What you’ve done in describing what the priests did in the ancient world is what I saw in the eyes of my priest abuser.’
Secondly, there’s a Survivor who watched the Sacred Sodomy video. Here’s what he said.
I would like to thank you, Professor, for your sharing of this forbidden knowledge. I won a settlement with the Brooklyn Diocese. The very ritual you shared here of the young boys being blindfolded happened to me. The bible he used to teach us Altar Boys was called the "The Way." After all these years, now it makes sense.
I don’t recall blindfolds myself, but I’m sure there are endless variants. I’m also sure there will be more Survivors who saw the video and their responses may be found in the Comments after the video.
Thirdly, my own childhood experience dovetails completely with ‘Church business’.
It’s spot on.
So it was powerful and liberating to watch ‘Sacred Sodomy’.
Bear in mind, my experience will be totally different to ‘typical’ Catholics who may go to church on Sundays, and use the religion to celebrate births, weddings and funerals and little else. And also different to Catholics who had protective parents who watched out for perverts.
So it’s tiresome and annoying for Catholics to say to me, like the Catholic priest and Canon Lawyer I confronted in a Zoom interview, ‘Well that’s not my experience.’ The priest said this to me defensively several times in the interview. It was clearly a rehearsed mantra. He had no interest or compassion in the Survivors I represented. And he answered none of the questions I put to him in writing.
But my research of Canon Law for that interview was valuable. I discovered there is actually a clause in Canon Law which allows priests to lie if it’s for the good of the Catholic Church. The priest had no response to this. I pointed out that a royal commission, in a four hundred page report, had specifically condemned Canon Law as a primary cause of Catholic child abuse. The priest, once again, had no response.
Disturbingly, this priest is actually a member of the RLSS, the Catholic Safeguarding organisation. Their true mission is to safeguard priests and monks from Survivors.
A nun from the RLSS was also on the Zoom interview (also a Canon Lawyer). She had very little to say, which is understandable given that the Church is patriarchal.
But back to my story.
I was deeply immersed in the Catholic religion, I lived and breathed it for the first fifteen years of my life, and thus I had some limited access, knowledge and experience of its inner circles, much of it obscured by traumatic memory.’Ordinary’ Catholics may know little of this and if they do, they will keep their mouths shut.I survived a total of four priest abusers, a masonic Catholic order of Knights and a League of Catholic women, obsessed with purity.
And for the benefit of any Catholic, bristling with scepticism, who would call Survivors ‘liars’ and ‘fantasists’ for accusing their Church of such unspeakable crimes, all of my allegations against the people above are born out by others
I’m only going to focus on the women, but there are convincing indicators that ‘Church business’ applied to the other abusers and their methods.
There are many ways of dealing with abusers and one that I found particularly effective is to mock them. To see the black comedy, the gallows humour, the trench humour in their crimes. It’s not to everyone’s taste, but it enabled me to survive.
Hence Nemesis The Warlock, and Torquemada
Because if you don’t laugh, you cry.
It is a gift of the Muse, but anyone conditioned by the Patriarchy will simply not understand it. It’s why they will never understand Hillman, and react so disapprovingly to his theatrical presentations.
How could anyone possibly see a humorous side to evil? But there most certainly is, where these bizarre Catholic women were concerned.
Even though: out of four priest abusers, the Catholic Knights and the Catholic women, who were the worst?
The women.
I’ll get into it next week.