Fractured through threat

Should the threat of Hell be used to keep Catholics and Christians silent about child sexual abuse by clergy?

When a trauma bonding event takes place the child's mind partitions off the experience as it is too much for the mind of the child at that time to cope with. This is a survival strategy that is automatic in human children. Every child responds in the same way when they encounter an insurmountable situation that includes a threat against their life.

The threat of Hell has been used against every Catholic child at some point in their life. How does the mind of a child respond to such a threat? How do survivors engage with that experience on through their life?

The sticking point in any discussion with bodies such as the Royal Commission or the Catholic Church or even individuals within law enforcement and the judiciary as well as everyday Catholics and Christians goes to the question as to whether the use of the threat of hell against children constitutes child abuse or not.

The threat of Hell includes with it a direct threat against the life of the child as well as an eternity of suffering through being burnt alive forever.

The threat of Hell in real terms is described as a threat against the life of a child with additional menaces against the child's survival and the continuation of its physical and spiritual existence.

The reality of such a threat is that the child is left with only the option of compliance if it wants to continue to survive. In the Catholic environment this threat can be called at any time and as often as desired by those wanting to control your mind and your body.

Some children survive by rejecting aspects of the threat and as a result of their mind compartmentalizing the event as a way of diminishing the threat from their abuser; others survive through bonding with their abuser and go on to become lifelong Catholics unable to distinguish between right and wrong unless they are directed by the wants and whims of their priest and bishops - they are effectively trapped into a cycle of addiction and dependence upon their association with their abuser (the Church/religion).

When repeated this process establishes a habit whereby the threat is taken seriously and yet the mind compartmentalizes it thus silencing any dissension as rapidly as possible. This is the mind game that Catholicism plays with the minds of 3 to 5 year olds; this is a mind game that many well skilled adults can fall prey to and yet we permit millions of children to be exposed to such moral corruption simply because it is put forward as being a part of a religion.

This form of torture bonding is perpetuated with repeated threats until the child's mind must compartmentalize it simply in order to survive; it does this in response on each occasion the threat is made or implied. This conditions the child into a state of mind where they can be manipulated and controlled for the rest of their life.

With this psychological form of entrapment set in place and repeatedly bonded via threats and inducements such as ceremonial events that take the child further into the realms of the religion it can be said that the human mind that belongs to that person is in the complete control of the clergy in regards to their existence as a person and within their community.

If the Royal Commission were to consider the safety and the protection of children so as to protect them from the high risk of sexual abuse by clergy when they are permanently entrapped in a vulnerable position without any foreknowledge of the risks or dangers of involvement in such a relationship. It is this relationship that has been repeatedly used and exploited by so many pedophile clergy firstly to gain access to children for their sexual gratification and then to silence the child, the religious community and any politicians, police or other members of the judiciary or community who have also been entrapped by the the threats made throughout the Christian religion.

Should the Royal Commission recommend legislation that would protect children from such coercive and dangerous behavior when it has been shown that there is a direct connection with the repeated sexual abuse and the coverup of those abuses of children in religious environments?