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Novaccines:
Alas, of special interest to this audience, one thing you will not hear in many discussions of Hay is that he was a disaffected Catholic. He was raised Catholic, attending St. Gregory Catholic Church on Ninth and Norton Streets in Los Angeles.


Is it surprising to anyone Harry Hay grew up Catholic? Not only Harry Hay is Catholic yet also Anton Lavey founder of the Church of Satan in San Francisco and member of the same OTO Freemason lodge as Hay. In fact all the satanists are disaffected Catholics and Christians brought up abused and ravaged by a satanic hypocritical faith Catholicism which is rooted in Baal worship. And I know some of you picture White Romans at the root yet no Rome was founded by satanic Blacks still practicing their Babylonian witchcraft. This isn't a condemnation of all Blacks it's to expose the Freemason lies that all Blacks were in Africa prior to the slave trade. No, bloodlines of diverse Africans Moors Blacks have been living all over this Earth for millions of years. And if we are to get to the root of this End Times we must expose the entire history of man.


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A former Satanist priest who became a Saint

Blessed Bartolo Longo (1841-1926) who became, according to Pope John Paul II, the “Apostle of the Rosary.”

Bartolo was born to a devout Catholic family near Brindisi, in southern Italy. He was a brilliant, though mischievous kid, who began to lose his way at the age of ten after his mother died. His adolescence was a time of great upheaval in his country, when Garabaldi was seeking to eliminate the papal city states and unite Italy. By the time Bartolo entered the University of Naples law school, many of his professors were ex-priests preaching nationalist venom against the Church. He was quickly caught up in their fervor. “I, too, grew to hate monks, priests and the Pope,” he would later write, “and in particular [I detested] the Dominicans, the most formidable, furious opponents of those great modern professors, proclaimed by the university the sons of progress, the defenders of science, the champions of every sort of freedom.”

In his confusion and emptiness, without God to turn to, he began to visit some of Naples’ infamous mediums. That was his introduction into the occult. Soon, his thirst for the supernatural led him into outright Satanism, where after a period of intense study and such rigorous fasting that he was reduced to skin and bones, he was consecrated a satanic priest and promised his soul to a demon. For the next year, he began to preside over satanic services and to preach more boldly and blasphemously against God and the Church — treating them, in a diabolical reversal, as the real evils.

His family back home tried to talk him about of the path he had chosen, to no avail. The began to pray and to ask for help from whoever might lend a hand. Professor Vincenzo Pepe, a solidly Catholic professor at the university, responded. He began to meet with Bartolo, accosting him, “Do you want to die in an insane asylum and be damned forever?” Bartolo couldn’t ignore the psychological and physiological state he was in. Professor Pepe eventually convinced him to see a Dominican priest, who after three weeks of lengthy conversations, on the feast of the Sacred Heart in 1865, was able to welcome him back into the Church and give him absolution.







As I've said before as Allah is my witness many disaffected Catholics and Christians are drawn to satanism. Many of them turn to satanic blood magic and outright wickedness then return to the church in repentance they claim. So I will show more true stories of this, including satanic worshippers becoming saved and then becoming pastors and priests. The two Catholicism and Satanism are connected via Baal worship. Satanism is Baal. This is mostly Western Europeans guilty of this as other cultures are somewhat different.

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3 Ex-Satanists Come Home to the Catholic Church

Posted by Jim Graves on Friday Mar 2nd, 2018 at 4:31 AM

Here are stories shared by three Catholics who are ex-Satanists, who now publicly share their stories in various public Catholic forums as both speakers and writers

The world of a Satanist is a secretive one, which typically involves indulging the passions and mocking all things Christian, particularly Catholic. A few respond to grace and renounce the lifestyle, however, embracing Catholicism and sharing stories of their time as Satanists. The following are stories shared with me by three Catholics who are ex-Satanists, who now publicly share their stories in various public Catholic forums as both speakers and writers.

 

Deborah Lipsky is author of A Message of Hope: Confessions of an Ex-Satanist. Deborah is originally from Massachusetts, got involved with Satanism as a teen, and returned to the Catholic Church of her youth in 2009. You’d be surprised to discover that seemingly respectable citizens in your community are members of satanic covens, she said, as “they’re people you meet on the street. They’re doctors, lawyers and Indian chiefs.”

Deborah has autism, which led to her isolation as a child. She attended Catholic schools in grades 7-10. Rejection and abuse by other children led her to misbehave in class, which made her unpopular with the nuns who ran the school “and they suggested I deserved the treatment I received. I was angry at the nuns, so, as a joke and to get even, I started coming to school wearing the pentagram. I would also draw it on my homework assignments. They asked me to leave the school. Now, these were the pre-internet days, so I began reading about Satanism in books, and then began talking with Satanists.”

She joined a satanic cult, but was turned off by the vulgarity of their Black Masses. She recalled, “It is depravity at its worst. Satanism is about indulgence, and destroying the Church and traditional morality.”

Had you met her as a Satanist, she said, “If you were nice to me, I would have been nice to you. If you were mean to me, I would have gotten even. I might have sent a demon after you.”

She continued, “You would have been uncomfortable around me, as I could have given you some hateful looks, and found me very manipulative. You would have been surprised that at a young age I had accumulated tremendous wealth, even though I was only working part-time.”

People invite the demonic into their lives through “portals,” she said: “You can make use of Ouija boards, go to a psychic, attend a séance or try to communicate with ghosts. We can also invite them in when we let ourselves be consumed with anger and refuse to forgive. Demons have the ability to tamper with our thoughts, and lead us into addictions.”

An increasing fear the demonic led her to return to the Church and share her experiences. She said, “I love the Church, and have dedicated my life to her … Our Lady has had an incredible role in my life, too. I’ve seen great miracles happen through Mary.”

She encourages the faithful to live active Catholic lives, going to Mass and Confession regularly, and make use of the sacramentals, especially holy water. She calls it “industrial-strength spiritual Lysol,” and said, “I keep it in my home and regularly bless myself.”

She also recommends that the faithful be careful about their hobbies and entertainment. She said, “The drinking, partying, carousing lifestyle can create an opening for the devil to come in; I also recommend people avoid the killing/slasher movies.”

 

David Arias is from Mexico City, and came to California at age 16. He was raised in what he described as a “culturally Catholic” family, but often clashed with his family as he was a self-described “troublemaker.”

Friends in high school introduced him to the Ouija board, inviting him to play it in a cemetery. The association led him to underground parties, which included promiscuity and drug and alcohol abuse. Eventually he was invited to join what he called “the Satan church.”

David said his group included all ages (at 16, he was among the youngest) and ethnicities. Many were “gothic,” people who dress in black, and color their hair, lips and around their eyes black. Others appeared perfectly respectable, and worked as doctors, lawyers and engineers.

The group was careful to avoid the police, and threatened to kill any member who went public with his experiences.

After four years in the cult, David “felt empty” inside and turned to God and returned to his Catholic faith. He has since married, had children and been active in his parish, sharing the story of his past, particularly among the Hispanic community.

He advises parents to keep a watchful eye on their children, as children today “have easy access to many things that are harmful.”

He, too, recommends regular attendance at Mass and regular Confession, as well as the Rosary. He said, “The Rosary is powerful. When someone is praying the Rosary, evil gets upset!”

 

Zachary King is a former Satanist who today is a Catholic evangelist operating the All Saints Ministry apostolate.

He joined a satanic coven as a teen, lured by activities he found enjoyable. He explained, “They wanted people to keep coming back. They had pinball machines and video games we could play, there was a lake on the property in which we could swim and fish, and a pit for barbecuing. There was lots of food, sleepovers, and we could watch movies.”

There were also drugs and porn. Porn, in fact, “plays a huge role in Satanism.”

At age 33 he stepped away from the coven. His conversion to Catholicism began in 2008, when a woman gave him a Miraculous Medal.

Today, he warns parents to keep their children from exposure to the demonic. This includes avoiding the Ouija board, and games like the Charlie Charlie Challenge.

Although he regrets involvement in Satanism, he’s confessed his sins and doesn’t struggle with guilt. He said, “I had had a longing to be Catholic ever since I was a child, and I wish I had become a priest as soon as possible. But, God allowed me to have the experiences I had. He wants me to tell everyone: don’t do this.”






3 Catholics become Satanists and then Catholics again.


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Hear the Black pervert Mayor Lightfoot of Chicago USA Pres. Obama's hometown compare being black to being a pervert. Lightfoot starts off recalling her experiences of racism as a little girl then she draws a parallel with experiencing discrimination against perverts or same sex lovers. Black perverts and Jewish perverts lead this Gay New World Order agenda. Just as a century ago Black slave owners and White slave owners collaborated in oppression. Pull evil out by the roots or you will never get rid of corruption.




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The thing is all them sodomite perverted politicians they sit in the front row of churches. They need the church votes to get elected. Pedophiles sit in the front row and that describes the US Church.


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Sodomy the worst of evils

Former Satanist becomes Catholic leader, teacher

Jim Graves January 22, 2014

Jesus stands beside a demon. The Crosiers

Editor’s note: Portions of this story are graphic and may be difficult to read.

David Arias is an exemplary leader among Southern California Catholics. Working in the Hispanic community, Arias has been involved in many evangelization efforts in the Diocese of San Bernardino and Archdiocese of Los Angeles, including with his primary apostolate, Prophets of Hope, which trains Church leaders in the presentation and defense of the Catholic faith. When Arias shares the story of his journey of faith, however, listeners are stunned to learn that 20 years ago not only was he an inactive Catholic, but a member of a Satanic cult.

“The Lord is powerful,” he said. “Little by little, with his grace, I was able to change.”

A time of horror

Arias, 40, was born in Mexico City. At age 16, he moved to California with his family, settling in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles. He was a “troublemaker,” he said, and conflict with his family was common. He described his family as “culturally Catholic.”

Friends in high school — and he noted he used the term “friends” loosely — introduced him to the Ouija board, which participants use to contact spirits (many Catholic leaders condemn the Ouija board as an introduction to the demonic). Furthermore, he was invited to play it in a cemetery.

He received invitations to “underground” parties, which involved promiscuity and extensive drug and alcohol use. He was then invited to get involved in the “Satan church.”

Arias defines a Satanist as “one who rejects, hates and curses God.” His particular group had about 80 members, including several “priests” who would lead activities. Rituals and specific activities vary from group to group. His group gathered monthly for a “black Mass,” a mockery of the Catholic Mass.

Arias said his group kept a low profile, as they were involved in extensive criminal activity, including rape, drug and alcohol abuse and murder. He said there were three steps involved in one’s entrance into the cult 1) beginners observed rituals, 2) the more experienced participated in sacrifices of animals (such as rats and cats), which included drinking their blood and pronouncing curses on others, and 3) the finalists sacrificed humans. Those murdered could be runaway teens, or the babies of women in the group who got pregnant.

Arias said his group included all ages (at 16, he was among the youngest) and ethnicities. Many were “gothic,” people who dress in black, and color their hair, lips and around their eyes black. Others appeared perfectly respectable and worked as doctors, lawyers and engineers.

Members were always on the lookout for new recruits, he said. Of particular interest were teen girls, as they could be impregnated and their babies sacrificed. He said, “Teenagers are looking for something and are open to experimentation. It was easy to get them in and then hooked on sex or drugs.”

The group was careful to avoid the police and threatened to kill any member who went public with his experiences.

A better wayOn the Devil

“The doctrine of original sin, closely connected with that of redemption by Christ, provides lucid discernment of man’s situation and activity in the world. By our first parents’ sin, the devil has acquired a certain domination over man, even though man remains free. Original sin entails ‘captivity under the power of him who thenceforth had the power of death, that is, the devil.’ Ignorance of the fact that man has a wounded nature inclined to evil gives rise to serious errors in the areas of education, politics, social actions and morals. The consequences of original sin and of all men’s personal sins put the world as a whole in the sinful condition aptly described in St. John’s expression, ‘the sin of the world.’ This expression can also refer to the negative influence exerted on people by communal situations and social structures that are the fruit of men’s sins.

This dramatic situation of ‘the whole world [which] is in the power of the evil one’ makes man’s life a battle: ‘The whole of man’s history has been the story of dour combat with the powers of evil, stretching, so our Lord tells us, from the very dawn of history until the last day. Finding himself in the midst of the battlefield man has to struggle to do what is right, and it is at great cost to himself, and aided by God’s grace, that he succeeds in achieving his own inner integrity.’

Arias was involved with the group for four years. As Arias was alienated from his family, they had no idea he was part of a cult. If he were to dress oddly, “my family thought that was just the fashion.”

However, Arias “felt empty” inside. He walked by a church one day and, looking at its cross, offered a challenge to God: “Can you offer me something better than Satan?”

Walking away from the group would prove difficult, he said, “but the Lord started working in me and changed everything.”

Arias went back to church, married his wife Maria, and, today, has three children. He moved from San Fernando to San Bernardino — away from his former associates in the Satanic cult — and today works in quality control for a large company. He uses his free time to teach others about the Catholic faith, as well as warn of dangerous influences in the culture.

He said, “Parents need to be aware of what their children are doing. Today, children have easy access to many things that are harmful.”

Demonic influences

After four years in a cult, Arias sees many examples of the demonic influencing society. Regarding abortion, for example, he said, “The evil one wants human sacrifices, and abortions are sacrifices.”

He noted that one member of his cult was an abortionist.

Some music popular among teens is Satanic, he noted, which can help lead young listeners away from God. And, although Halloween is a popular holiday among millions of Americans, Arias is no fan. He says it is a popular day for activity among Satanic cults.

One recent phenomenon that reminded him of the influence of the demonic, he said, is the so-called “knockout game,” in which inner city black teens sucker punch unsuspecting whites as they walk by. He said, “Who is inspiring this hatred? A normal human being wouldn’t do this; the influence has to be coming from somewhere.”

Spiritual help

In his own battle against Satan, Arias said, he regularly goes to Mass and receives holy Communion (even Satanists recognize the Body of Christ, he noted, and like to steal hosts so they can desecrate them during Black Masses). He makes regular use of confession and a variety of personal devotions, particularly the Rosary. He noted, “The Rosary is powerful. When someone is praying the Rosary, evil gets upset!”

He also wants his fellow Catholics to take their faith seriously, so he leads weekly education classes through Prophets of Hope at his parish. He said, “We need to know what we believe and stay in communion with Christ.”

Father Martin Madero, associate pastor at St. Genevieve Church in Panorama City in California, has been a longtime friend of Arias and has offered him counsel in his apostolates. Arias has become a role model in the Catholic community, he said: “He may have been a Satanist at one time, but he’s converted. He really lives his Catholic faith, and so does his family. He’s a leader in the community.”

Belem Villasenor of Long Beach is a family friend and volunteered for Prophets of Hope. She once went on retreat with Arias and was “shocked” to hear his personal testimony. She said, “He has an extraordinary story. God’s grace can do wonderful things in us. Everyone was surprised to hear about his background, but praised God for his conversion.”

He and his wife Maria, she added, “are wonderful people of faith. I admire them greatly.”

Arias is not concerned about his safety speaking out publicly against Satanism and sharing his personal experiences. He lives in a different community, he noted, and his involvement ceased 20 years ago.

And, most importantly, he said, “The Lord is with me. With him, I have nothing to fear.”

Jim Graves writes from California.




Here is another true story of a satanist who supposed to have repented and becomes a Catholic leader. There is no doubt of the connection that Satanism and Catholicism are different sides of the same coin. And this isn't just these odd stories driving the conclusion its the amount of data that makes such a conclusion possible.


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Sodomy is worse than White Supremacy

THE SCANDAL OF PEDOPHILIA IN THE CHURCH

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By Annie Laurie Gaylor
© Copyright 1992, Annie Laurie Gaylor. All Rights Reserved.

A version of this article appeared as a chapter in the anthology The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read, edited by Tim C. Leedom (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company 1993).

The general consensus in the United States is that if it is religious, it must be good. Criticism of religion is discouraged and stifled. It remains socially unacceptable to point out the main objections which skeptics and freethinkers have to religion: that it is both untrue, and harmful. Ironically, while criticism of religion rarely makes the mainstream, the slandering and scapegoating of atheists is so acceptable that polls have shown that most Americans would not consider voting for an atheist for President. The public harbors illusions straight out of the stuff that made William Jennings Bryan such a successful religious demagogue. One of his typical statements was, "Outside of the church are to be found the worthless; the criminal, and the degenerate, those who are a burden to society rather than an aid."

Christian religious indoctrination has taught believers that what makes you a good person is what you believe, not what you do. "Get right with God" and everything else falls into place, is the fundamentalist view. In this black-and-white world, the good are the Christians who go to heaven; the bad are the hell-bound unbelievers. While the more liberal branches of Christianity usually reject this simplistic bifurcation of the world and this narrow understanding of morality, they too believe that being a Christian is what makes one "good." Their benevolent view of Jesus and the parts of the bible they deign to acknowledge as relevant to today's world, does not permit exploration of the darker side of Christianity. History is replete with the recorded abuses and savageries of organized religion when it comes to power. Human sacrifices to appease the gods. The Crusades. The Inquisition. The execution of millions of women under the direction of the bible. Pogroms against Jews. The Holocaust. Jonestown, Guyana.

Believers in our society are indoctrinated to ignore the bloody history of religion, and to pay effusive lip service to belief in God, Jesus, the bible, and God's holy representatives on earth. Ordained ministers and priests are "men of God," "God's holy instruments," a race apart, anointed. It is then no wonder that clergymen who wish to misuse power and betray trust are in a unique position to do so. Newspapers are full of reports of financial exploitation, sexual transgressions during pastoral counseling, and what has surfaced since the mid-1980's as one of the most persistent public relations problems facing both Catholic and Protestant churches today: the criminal sexual abuse of children and teenagers by ordained clergymen.

As British philosopher Bertrand Russell analyzed in 1916: ". . . [Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average" ("Religion and the Churches".

Philosopher/theologian Martin Buber, in Good and Evil, made this insight:

"Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? . . . . I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them."

Child molesters appear to gravitate toward careers which will shield and camouflage them, while at the same time providing access to victims. Robin Levett and Bob Crane write in It's O.K. To Say No!: "Because the abuse of children is a sexual preference formed relatively early in life, some offenders consciously or unconsciously choose career paths that will bring them regularly in contact with children. Others may volunteer to supervise children's sports or club activities. Many are highly respected members of the community. Some are in positions of authority over children--teachers, doctors, police officers, clergymen, coaches."

Professionals agree that pedophiles, sexual abusers of children, often seek out professions or activities which bring them into contact with children. Largely unexplored is the role Christianity may play in possibly molding criminal abusers. Researchers know that a typical child molester is a "good Christian" and often a church-goer active in church activities. Why should this be so? Havelock Ellis wrote, "In all countries religion, or superstition, is closely related with crime." It should not be surprising that crime is connected to the religious mentality and its ideology: such beliefs as original sin, the sacredness of gruesome bible teachings and inflexibility of moral codes, the absolution of sin through confession, a lack of personal responsibility for one's actions, and terrifying spectres of a jealous god and evil devils.

Religious doctrine encourages power inequities toward women and children, and such inequities invariably lead to abuse. Christian doctrine emphasizes submission and teaches the exemplary Christian to follow like sheep, and "become as little children" (Matthew 18:3). The classic Christian concept that human nature is innately "depraved" and sinful may also be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Does the Christian ministry attract sexual deviants, or mold them? It may be an unanswerable riddle. When one looks at fallen televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, one may surmise that the more he ranted against the temptations of pornography and illicit sexual relations, the more he was trying to overcome his own impulses, and fighting his own nature. Or one may speculate that the deep sexual repressions of the fundamentalist religion, coupled with the unhealthy adulation he received as one of God's chosen, corrupted what was once an innocent nature.

In either case, the mixture of ministerial power with religion's social inequities and repressive doctrines is demonstrably explosive.

One study released by Rev. Ronald Barton and Rev. Karen Lebaczq (March, 1990) for the Center for Ethics and Social Policy of the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, found that a quarter of all clergy have engaged in sexual misconduct.

Extent of the Problem

Studies about pedophiles (adults who prey sexually on children) have not investigated the extent of this crime within the ministry, or whether the ratio of pedophiles in the ministry is higher than that of comparable high-risk professions. Experts agree that the molesting minister is a subset of the dangerous class of "respected members of the community" who betray their position of authority and trust by sexually assaulting children. Many warn that molesters are often "good Christians."

The social myth persists that a child molester is most apt to be of a low-class breed lurking in dark hallways, interested in abduction of children he does not know. In fact, most sexual abusers of children are respectable, otherwise law-abiding people who cultivate friendly relationships with their chosen prey, and may escape detection for precisely those reasons. Research agrees that the typical child molester is able to harm large numbers of children without being caught, in part, because he has already established a trusting relationship, playing on children's sense of loyalty, vulnerability, shame, and naivete, and fortifying his power to silence them through bribery, coercion and violent threats. In the case of a molesting man of the cloth, add to these threats the supernatural ones of God's wrath or hellfire.

The largest study of pedophiles was directed by researcher, physician and psychiatrist Gene G. Abel, M.D., of Emory University School of Medicine, for the Antisocial and Violent Behavior Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. The landmark eight-year study revealed that, "Molesters often become youth ministers, day-care workers, Boy Scout leaders, teachers, Big Brothers and pediatricians" (Dr. Abel and Nora Harlow, "The Child Abuser," Redbook Magazine, August 1987). They add, "He is often an active Christian who is involved in his church."

Abel's study discovered that 403 pedophiles had molested more than 67,000 children! Pedophiles who targeted male victims averaged 282 victims, while pedophiles who targeted girls averaged 23 victims. Other studies have uncovered more traditional findings of higher incidences of abuse of girls.

Some figures are available about ministers who are child abusers. The Church Mutual Insurance Company, of Merrill, Wisconsin, which insures 46,000 churches, has seen about 200 claims against ministers for sexual abuse of children in the late eighties. The company estimated that in 1990 there were as many as 2,000 cases of sexual abuse by clergy in the courts.

Jeffrey Anderson, a Minnesota attorney who specializes in sexual abuse civil suits, was aware of more than 300 civil claims against Catholic priests in 43 states through 1991, and has handled 80 cases himself. Catholic reporter Jason Berry has tracked at least 100 civil settlements by the Catholic Church in the years 1984-1990, totaling $100 million to $300 million. Of course, many such civil cases are settled secretly.

Roman Catholic canon attorney Father Thomas Doyle has estimated that about 3,000 Roman Catholic priests are pedophiliac abusers of children (an average of 16 priestly sex abusers per diocese).

Baltimore psychotherapist and former priest A.W. Richard Sipe, author of A Secret World: Sexuality and the Search for Celibacy, 1990, made a comprehensive study of the sexual conduct of priests. As a result of his study, Harper's Index 1990 published this statistic: "Estimated chances that a Catholic priest in the United States is sexually active: 1 in 2." Sipe studied 1,000 priests and 500 of their "lovers" or victims. He offered this breakdown: 20% of priests are involved in sexual relationships with women; 8-10% in "heterosexual exploration," 20% are homosexual with half of them active, 6% are pedophiles, almost 4% of them targeting boys. However, Sipes observed "the homosexual contacts are four times more likely to come to the attention of parents or authorities, especially if the sexual involvement stops short of intercourse in heterosexual cases."

The offices of the national monthly Freethought Today out of Madison, Wisconsin, receive three to four newspaper clippings per week from readers detailing a new criminal or civil court accusation against a priest or Protestant minister. It has surveyed reported cases in North America during the years of 1988 and 1989 and found 250 reported cases of criminal charges involving child-molesting priests, ministers or ministerial staff in the United States and Canada. Of the accused clergy, 75 were Catholic priests (39.5%), and 111 were Protestant ministers (58%). Also charged were one Mormon clergyman, one occult minister and two cult ministers. Protestant cases involved equal numbers of mainstream and fundamentalist/evangelical denominations. That study revealed no rabbis charged with child molestation.

Although priests make up only about 10% of North American clergy, they were 40% of the accused, leaving the Catholic Church, which complains that the media are "priest-bashing," with no grounds for criticism. With outcome unknown in about a fifth of the cases, the study found that 88% of all charged clergy were convicted, with slightly lower conviction rate for priests--81%.

A majority of cases did not go to trial, with 61% of accused reverends pleading guilty (53%) or no contest (8%). Three-quarters of all clergy who pleaded innocent were found guilty. About half of the Catholic priests pleading innocent were convicted.

The study revealed that Catholic priests were acquitted or dismissed of child molestation charges at a higher rate than Protestant ministers. Similarly, Catholic priests received a higher rate of suspended sentences when convicted, and when sentenced, spent considerably less time in jail Or prison. Seventy-eight percent of convicted ministers were incarcerated with sentences as brief as 30 days in jail to as long as three lifeterms. About 10% received probation only.

However, priests were incarcerated at a lower rate, with only 68.5% of convicted priests spending time in jail or prison. The average Protestant clergyman sent to prison received 11.5 years, while the average Roman Catholic priest received only 3.6 years. Of the 21 priests sent to prison, none received a sentence higher than nine years. By contrast, of 58 sentenced Protestant clergy, 45% received ten or more years, including three life sentences.

Almost twice as many priests received suspended sentences. Additionally, one priest was given treatment only as a sentence and another was channeled into pretrial intervention with charges dropped upon successful completion.

Overall, 7.4% of the cases against Protestant ministers were dismissed and 4.7% were acquitted. Cases against priests were dropped at a higher rate of 12.5% dismissal, and 6.3% acquittal.

The very high conviction rate would indicate that prosecutors tend to charge clergymen only when they feel very confident of the outcome.

In these cases, involving 190 ordained clergy and 60 nonordained clergy staff, such as Sunday school teachers, crimes mainly occurred at church locations. One convicted priest molested victims just before giving Mass. Sexual abuse occurred at the sacristy, in the rectory or church van. About half of the clergymen were officially involved in youth functions. About a third were accused of molesting youths during camping trips, youth group activities, retreats and crusades. About 20% were accused of molesting children at religious schools, 21% at church homes for children or through foster care. Eleven percent were accused of abusing children during counseling sessions exclusively, although other cases involved a counseling relationship.

Most ministers were charged with molesting at least four or five victims but were believed to have assaulted many others. The sexual assault charges ranged from indecent touching to rape, sodomy, and child pornography. Much of the abuse was long-term, with some children assaulted as many as 1,000 times. Included in the study were prominent clergy and evangelists who had made names for themselves through special ministries or "good works."

Charges for all 190 cases involved a total of 847 identified victims. Conservatively, according to speculations made by investigators, the 190 clergy had at least 4,000 other victims, for a low estimate of an average of 21 victims each. These victims often were not included in charges for pragmatic legal reasons, because they had been molested in other jurisdictions or times, or because the statute of limitations had been exceeded.

The profile of the typical clergyman charged with molesting children: a 45 year old man (ages ranged from 24 to 80 at the time of arrest), with four to five named victims, most often boys in their early teens. Of all the accused, 37% involved crimes against girl victims, 58% male victims, 3.2% children of both sexes, 1% sex not specified.

Freethought Today's follow-up study of 1990 cases found one clergyman or church leader busted every three days for child sexual abuse. Two-thirds of these 106 perpetrators were priests or Protestant ministers. This study was concluded at a point where slightly more than a third of the cases were closed. Of those with final dispositions, almost all--98%--of the accused had been convicted. Only one of the closed cases had ended in a not-guilty verdict. The briefer study confirmed the earlier findings of a Catholic versus Protestant double standard, with priests receiving lighter sentences than Protestant ministers, and nonordained clerical staff receiving by far the heaviest sentences. Catholic priests accused in 1990 were prosecuted mainly for molesting boys, while about half of the Protestant clergy were charged for crimes involving female victims. Cover-ups were specifically noted in newspaper reports in 38% of the cases, including many Protestant cases. Shockingly, 11 out of the 46 Protestant ministers charged in 1990 with criminal sexual abuse had prior convictions--nearly a quarter of the cases, all dating since 1985. Most of the men had received light sentences enabling them to return to the pulpit, and resume sexual abuse of children, quickly. Churches are not only failing to check ministers' records, but in some instances are knowingly hiring convicted child molesters.

The most blatant cover-up that year involved a Salvation Army minister who was permitted to keep his job and was given continuing access to children after back-to-back arrests for sexually abusing children during bible classes.

Defendants often unabashedly used their piety and positions to ask for (and sometimes receive) court leniency.











The religion of sodomy



They seem you a criminal if you are not a card holding member of the religion of sodomy.

Scene of the Crimes

Many parents assume their children could not be safer than when in the care of a church institution or clergyman. Confessionals, youth groups, Sunday School outings, Christian Scouting, day camps, summer camps, church schools and athletics, church nurseries and day care all grant clergy special access to children and young teenagers--often otherwise unchaperoned. Chaplains have access to church facilities as well as public ones. Molesting priests have often invited a young boy for weekend trips, "sleep-overs" at the rectory and similar outings, which might otherwise be forbidden or would normally raise parental suspicions. Parents may be flattered when a "man of God" spends a great deal of time alone with their child.

The first nationally breaking news story about church coverups of sex crimes broke in 1984, when well-known attorney Gloria Allred of Los Angeles brought the country's first "clergy malpractice" lawsuit that year on behalf of Rita Milla, a devout Catholic teenager. One day Father Santiago Tamayo reached through the broken screen in the confessional to handle her breasts. By January 1980, he was engaging in sexual intercourse with her. He introduced her to Father Cruces, who also used her sexually. In all, five other priests encouraged her compliance, flaunting their religious authority over the sheltered teenager. Rita later told news media that the priests had told her sex was natural, and that "priests get lonely, too." She was aiding them in their religious work.

When she became pregnant in January 1982, she was packed off to the Philippines. She told her family she would be "studying medicine." The priests intended for her to have her baby in secrecy and leave it there, giving her only $450 to last seven months. She lived with cockroaches and ate only one meal a day, nearly dying during childbirth of eclampsia. Her family rescued her, and Rita and her baby daughter returned to the states, after Bishop Abaya of the Philippines promised to help her. When that aid failed to materialize, Rita went to Bishop Ward of Los Angeles for help. He said there was nothing he could do. After that final betrayal of trust, Rita and her mother filed the landmark clergy malpractice suit, seeking to establish paternity, set up child support, and sue the priests and the church for civil conspiracy for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, deceit and clergy malpractice-and "to protect other young women from the pain and suffering caused by priests who abuse their position of trust," said Attorney Allred. The courts dismissed the case, citing a one-year time limit.

When Allred called the press conference to expose the scandal and announce the suit, all seven priests mysteriously vanished without trace, according to the archdiocese of Los Angeles. In 1991, Tamayo finally resurfaced, documenting to media that the diocese had warned him and his cohorts to flee the country. Tamayo offered proof that the church had known his whereabouts for years, including during the time when Allred tried unsuccessfully to serve him and the other priests with legal papers. The archdiocese had sent him monthly payments for years while he hid out in the Philippines.

In 1988, the church had finally set up a $20,000 trust fund for Milla's daughter, after she agreed to drop a slander suit against a bishop. The church lawyer maintained it was not an admission of liability, but an act of benevolence for the child. A paternity suit is unresolved.

A second nationally renowned case was filed in 1985, focusing more public attention on Catholic cover-ups. Father Gilbert Gauthe, of Louisiana, admitted to molesting 37 boys and one girl. He pleaded guilty on various charges in October 1985 and was given a 20-year prison sentence which can not be paroled. The families of many of his victims went to court when they learned that a bishop and monsignor were aware of child molestation reports against Gauthe for more than ten years before his abuse was halted.

Small-town Catholics turned against the families as trouble-makers. All but one family agreed to settle their civil lawsuits out of court. But Faye and Glenn Gastal had their day in court. After their son, eleven, testified in court, he received a one million dollar award for damages from the Catholic Church on February 7, 1986. His parents received $250,000 as compensation for their pain, ostracism and harassment.

Gauthe had molested some of the children as many as 200 times, including anal and oral rape, during church outings, when alone with children, in the rectory, sacristy, confessional and the priest's camper.

The Gastal boy testified that he was led to believe that being molested by priests was part of his job as altar boy. He thought his parents knew what was happening: "I thought he was doing the right thing because he was a priest." Later, the priest guaranteed his silence by threatening that "he would hurt my daddy, he'd kill him."

In what is the classic Catholic "musical chairs" mode of dealing with accusations against priests, it was revealed that the church had simply transferred Gauthe to new, unsuspecting communities. Parents had confronted the priest as early as 1972. In 1974, Gauthe admitted to a bishop that he had made "imprudent touches" in "one isolated case." The following year, the bishop appointed him chaplain of the diocesan Boy Scouts. In 1977, more parents complained. Gauthe was directed to seek psychiatric treatment by church officials, but in 1978 was transferred to another family parish. The sworn statement of one church official was, "I am trained as a priest to forget sins." The enormity of the scandal prompted even the National Catholic Reporter to condemn the cover-ups.

The church has paid at least $14 million to the victims of Gauthe alone.

The case of Father Carmelo "Mel" Baltazar exemplifies the predatory nature of the crimes. At a church position at Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa, California, he molested a boy on a dialysis machine. Despite this, the Catholic Church in Boise was willing to hire him as chaplain of St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. They took no action after an Episcopalian minister reported to Bishop Sylvester Treinen that Baltazar had fondled a boy in double-leg traction. Bishop Treinen compared Baltazar's behavior to that of a car that, "no matter how well you take care of [it]" occasionally has a flat tire. He was finally prosecuted for luring two teenaged boys to his church home in the Boise diocese. Following his arrest, it was learned that the U.S. Navy had kicked him out of a chaplaincy position, and that he had been transferred from three dioceses for abusive behavior. In 1987, he was sentenced to seven years for sexual acts with a teenaged boy he met in the psychiatric ward. Judge Alan Schwartz said at the sentencing: "I think the Catholic Church has its atonement to make as well. They helped create you."

The willingness of congregants to circle the wagons and support an accused clergyman has numerous illustrations. One 1986 criminal case revealed the extent to which fundamentalist backers of a convicted molesting preacher would go. Christian supporters from three states filled the courtroom during hearings against Rev. James Britton Myers, of Kenosha, Wisconsin. Although he was convicted of the heinous crime of raping a little girl at his Christian school over a five-year period, starting when she was five, one member of his congregation called the crime "one drop of ink in crystal clear water."

A judge in California was inundated with letters of support asking him to pardon Father Andrew Christian Andersen, who was found guilty in 1986 of 26 counts of child molestation. Following the guilty verdict, Andersen was hugged by a church pastor and dozens of supporters. The judge sentenced him only to five years' probation, with the condition that he serve it at a church-owned treatment facility in New Mexico. Although the Diocese of Orange had received a report by a mother that her son had been abused by him, Andersen had been permitted to continue regular contact with altar boys for the following three years. The church never reported anything. He had been sent for some counseling, but quickly resumed molesting, and was not removed from positions involving the supervision of boys. He was finally reported to authorities by a psychiatrist counseling a 13 year old altar boy. The postscript of this coverup is that Andersen's parole was revoked in 1990 and he was sentenced to six years in state prison, following his arrest in New Mexico for forcing a teenaged boy into a car, assaulting him and trying to sodomize him.

The Salvation Army would not remove its minister, Gary Hallock of Pennsylvania, from his duties teaching children bible stories, even after he had been arrested for sexually abusing children at his church! The "captain," an equivalent of minister, had victimized seven children, ages four to 15, and even a profoundly retarded 15 year old boy. He was sentenced in 1990 to up to 72 years in prison. Meanwhile, a civil suit was launched against the Salvation Army for their negligence by parents of victims.

The extent to which a minister-molester is held above suspicion, despite blatant criminal acts, is exemplified by a 1987 criminal suit in Nashville. The arrest of Rev. Jack Law, a Baptist minister, was heralded by a headline, "Girl, 5, Raped Under Pew." He was accused not only of that, but of molesting and raping her two sisters. These crimes took place at the family home as well as during an outing arranged by him so the girls could help him distribute religious tracts. The girls had tried to tell their parents, but were not believed. "Being a preacher," the father said of him to local media, "we thought he was a good man." Law killed himself that year rather than face trial.

The devout often find it unthinkable that a respected member of the clergy could molest children, especially boys, who are often considered invulnerable to exploitation. A case in point occurred in Tampa, Florida, when a mother walked in on Rev. Fonville Gandy when he was placing his hands on her son's genitals. He told her he was giving her son an "anatomy lesson," and she believed him! Obviously she could not permit herself to believe the evidence before her very eyes that a minister could betray her trust, sexually abuse her child, then lie and cover-up. The mother realized the truth when Rev. Gandy was later arrested for other molestations, and she testified against him during his trial. Gandy was sentenced in 1986 to five years in prison.

Why are churches often a safe harbor for criminal child molesters? There are many answers to that question. It is, in part, because children are taught to give "men of God" special deference and obedience. Sherryll Kerns Kraizer, author of Safe Child Book and a pioneer in developing sexual abuse prevention, writes: "Many children tell me that their body belongs to God." A young child who assumes his or her body is not their own, but is "owned by God," will be vulnerable to abuse by an esteemed "man of God."

Clergy, whose role includes "pastoral counseling," are trusted and sought after for confidances and guidance. Yet being a pastor is no guarantee of having had professional training, not even necessarily a degree, much less professional counseling licenses, academic credits or the necessary trained and disinterested professional attitude. Clergy are often in contact with depressed or hurting parishioners, who are expected to confess and confide deeply personal feelings. The Catholic Church's traditional ritualistic confession of "sins" sets up an opportunity for children to be inappropriately questioned by priests on intimate or embarrassing topics. Pastoral counselors join secular professionals in a field in which at least 10% of counselors admit to sexually abusing a client, while half of all counselors report treating clients who have been sexually abused by others in their profession. The power inequities during a counseling situation have led to sexually exploitative relationships that have been compared to incestuous betrayal.

The denial that may be natural when it is learned that a respected member of the community has been accused of a shameful act seems to be magnified in church circles. Congregations may form a wagon circle around the accused assailant, ostracizing victims and their families. Church hierarchy may actively cover up, bribe, fail to act or knowingly pass on a child molester to another parish or congregation. Church teachings of "forgiveness" of sins may be promoted at the expense of the victims.

Finally, churches are used to operating as though they were above the law. Unlike other nonprofit groups, churches are not required to even file information on financial arrangements, and are used to special favors and community approval. While many do not come to the rescue of the battered principle of state/church separation when it is under assault, they wave the First Amendment banner vigorously when it comes to investigations by public authorities of wrong-doing within church doors. They treat these cases as a crisis of faith, rather than as criminal actions.

Churches are not policing themselves, and are often unpoliced by the state. Even under fire, churches are dragging their feet to institute reforms. Since 1986, the Church Mutual Insurance Company has formally advised church clients to fingerprint all applicants for church positions, to carefully check out resumes and gaps in resumes, to call references and demand them for work with children, to institute careful monitoring of church day cares, to make sure two adults act as chaperones on field trips, to take, in short, the kinds of precautions that public schools and better child care facilities have been taking for years.

Are the churches doing it? No. Several denominations have passed position papers or policies for dealing with internal investigations once a complaint has been lodged privately. None has announced steps in keeping with all the recommendations of the Church Mutual Insurance Company. The hierarchy of the Catholic Church insists that each diocese must make its own policies and determinations. In 1990, Auxiliary Bishop A. James Quinn of Cleveland told a conference of canon attorneys to consider hiding the crimes, by sending files on priests accused of child molestation to the Vatican Embassy in the District of Columbia, which he maintains is outside the reach of the U.S. Courts. "If there's something there you really don't want people to see, you might send it off to the Apostolic Delegate," said Quinn.

In addition, church officials are either exempt by law from the mandatory child abuse reporting laws, or prosecutors are interpreting those laws as if they were exempt. Any action taken by churches largely has been in reaction to civil suits against them, when their pocketbooks are threatened, and, to a lesser extent, due to unfavorable publicity.

The Catholic hierarchy in particular has been outspoken in trying to minimize or defend abusers within its ranks. Typical of public statements was the opinion of Archbishop James Hayes, quoted in the Toronto Star (July 2, 1989): "The church exists to pardon and heal . . . There may be cases where the child was chasing after the man, looking for affection and whatever happened, happened only once." Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland editorialized in the May 1988 Catholic Herald: "We must not imply that the abuser is not guilty of serious crime, but we could easily give a false impression that any adolescent who becomes sexually involved with an older person does so without any degree of personal responsibility. Sometimes not all adolescent victims are so innocent; some can be sexually very active and aggressive and often quite streetwise."

With such attitudes, was it surprising that Cardinal John O'Connor of New York City wanted to offer Father Bruce Ritter a job, even after a probe of his charitable Covenant House network for runaways found him guilty of sexual and financial misconduct in 1990? Ritter was never prosecuted for a 20-year pattern of sexual misconduct.

One Catholic leader was felled by charges of cover-up. In 1990 Archbishop Alphonsus Penney of Newfoundland resigned, after a judicial inquiry proved he had evidence of abuse of boys at Mount Cashel orphanage as early as 1979. Twenty priests, former priests or Catholic lay workers were facing charges or had already been convicted of molesting boys, orphans and wards of the state. Boys as young as six were sexually abused, one within hours of being admitted. Penney had chided a mother for "gossip" when she complained she witnessed a priest abusing her three year old son during a "blessing." A judicial inquiry characterized priests as assuming their vocation licensed them to molest, and that they demanded and received special treatment from the attorney general, social workers and police. Police had interviewed 26 boys in 1975, but had dropped the investigation until 1988, when some of the grown victims came forward once more. Penney admitted, "We are a sinful church. We are naked."

The case of Father Baltazar, who had sexually abused a helpless boy attached to a dialysis machine, and another in double leg traction, epitomizes the ruthlessness of child molesters, the heartlessness of the hierarchy, and the vulnerability of their victims. The egomaniacal and rapacious drives of a molester who blots out all sense of right and wrong, brutally disregarding the pain he is causing children, have often found a parallel in churches bent on protecting themselves at the expense of thousands of victims.

If religion or any institution depends on the sexual subordination or exploitation of children or women, then it is better that such institutions should cease to exist. If it is a question of the survival of the churches versus the safety of children, then our allegiance clearly must be with children.

In 1988, 1 appeared on a "People Are Talking" television show in San Francisco, to speak about my book, Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children, along with a Catholic mother whose son had been molested by a priest, and opposite a local priest and fundamentalist minister in San Francisco. The audience remained stoic as the Catholic mother and I regaled them with horror stories of betrayal and sexual abuse of children by clergymen. But when one of the clergymen on the show "exposed" the fact that I am an atheist, a loud collective gasp was sounded from the good Christians in the audience.

It was a telling demonstration of that narrow bigotry, inculcated in so many Christians, that goodness has far more to do with one's professions of faith than with conduct and actions.

This corrupted idea of morality not only produces an audience that is more shocked at atheism than it is concerned about victims of abusive ministers, but has produced a malignancy of collusion and cover-up in the churches. The religious scandal of clergy abusing children should rightfully close many church doors.

Annie Laurie Gaylor is editor of Freethought Today, published by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Madison, Wisconsin.


Them babies aren't safe in a church or church ran facilities.


Them pedophiles are coming out of the church and nowhere else

Is it Baal worship? Let the data decide.

After Las Vegas pastor’s arrest, 4 more girls alleged sexual abuse

By Katelyn Newberg
Las Vegas Review-Journal

6 days ago

After a Las Vegas pastor was arrested in December on suspicion of sexually abusing children, four more girls came forward to tell police about alleged abuse that took place at the church since about 2016, according to arrest reports released Tuesday.

The pastor, 44-year-old Bramwell Bernardo Retana, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Dec. 20 and initially faced six counts of lewdness with a child under 14, two counts or luring a child with a computer to engage in a sexual act, and one count each of first-degree kidnapping of a minor and child abuse. After media reports of Retana’s arrest, at least four more girls told police they were sexually abused, the reports said.

Based on the additional reports, 24 more counts were filed against Retana, who is the pastor of Iglesia Cristiana Oasis De Paz, 2020 Michael Way. Charges in the second case were filed Dec. 27, according to Las Vegas Justice Court records.


“Gabby explained due to the fact she did not have any other proof this was occurring she did not report the incidents,” the report said.

Retana admitted to assaulting two girls at the church, but he denied “doing anything sexual” with other children, the report said.

But on Dec. 27, the same day the additional charges were filed against Retana, detectives interviewed four additional girls who said they had been abused by the pastor.

Detectives determined the abuse had been happening since about 2016. The girls and other adults said they believed there may be more victims.

One woman told police she “believes they are afraid to come forward in fear of retaliation or immigration issues.”

One victim told police the abuse started when she was “six or seven years old,” the report said.

The four additional victims said the abuse happened in Retana’s office at the church and at a home on the church’s property, that one girl said Retana’s parents lived at. One girl said Retana had forcibly pulled her into his office multiple times, at one point scratching her and leaving a scar.

When one girl was “eight or nine years old,” Retana took her and another child into the home because he wanted to play a “role playing” game where he acted like a dog or a horse, the report said.

“It should be noted, during Retana’s post-Miranda interview he explained he has a fetish and likes to be dominated and treated like a dog for sexual gratification,” a detective wrote in the report.

One parent said that after seeing report of Retana’s arrest she spoke to her children, who said he didn’t touch them inappropriately. But one daughter later said “Retana would play a game with them that they did not think was bad however, Retana would tell them not to tell anybody,” the report said.

The woman told police she believed Retana “would take advantage of the children ‘one by one’ while the adults were occupied with church functions.”

On Jan. 3, according to the records, Retana surrendered his bond, and he remained in the jail Tuesday. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 3.

Attempts to reach Retana have been unsuccessful, and his attorney, Ryan Helmick, has previously declined to comment to the Review-Journal.

Anyone with information about Retana, or anyone who believes he or she may have been a victim of abuse, may contact Metro’s juvenile sexual assault division at 702-828-3421. Anonymous tips may be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555.

Contact Katelyn Newberg at knewberg@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0240. Follow @k_newberg on Twitter.




This child rape is a constant thing with them. All over the world. Them pedophiles are coming out of the church and nowhere else


Wake up out your slumber

Wake up out your slumber

The Catholic Church Played Major Role in Slavery   

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor 

Published February 7, 2019

   

The universal church taught that slavery enjoyed the sanction of Scripture and natural law. (File Photo)

“When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.” — JomoKenyatta, First President of Kenya, Africa 

 The Catholic Church played a vital role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, according to historians and several published theses on the topic. 

The trans-Atlantic slave trade was introduced by the coming of the Europeans who came with the Bible in the same manner that Arab raiders and traders from the Middle East and North Africa introduced Islam through the Trans-Saharan slave trade, according to AfricaW.com, a premiere informational website available throughout the continent. 

“In fact, the Church was the backbone of the slave trade,” the authors wrote. “In other words, most of the slave traders and slave ship captains were very ‘good’ Christians.” 

For example, Sir John Hawkins, the first slave-ship captain to bring African slaves to the Americas, was a religious man who insisted that his crew “serve God daily” and “love one another.”  His ship, ironically called “The Good Ship Jesus,” left the shores of his native England for Africa in October 1562. Some historians argue that if churches had used their power, the Atlantic slave trade might have never occurred. 

By the same logic, others argue that the Catholic church and Catholic missionaries could have also helped to prevent the colonization and brutality of colonialism in Africa.  However, according to a 2015 Global Black History report, the Catholic church did not oppose the institution of slavery until the practice had already become infamous in most parts of the world. 

In most cases, the churches and church leaders did not condemn slavery until the 17th century. 

 The five major countries that dominated slavery and the slave trade in the New World were either Catholic, or still retained strong Catholic influences including: Spain, Portugal, France, and England, and the Netherlands. 

“Persons who considered themselves to be Christian played a major role in upholding and justifying the enslavement of Africans,” said Dr. Jonathan Chism, an assistant professor of history at the University of Houston-Downtown. 

“Many European ‘Christian’ slavers perceived the Africans they encountered as irreligious and uncivilized persons. They justified slavery by rationalizing that they were Christianizing and civilizing their African captors. They were driven by missionary motives and impulses,” Chism said. 

Further, many Anglo-Christians defended slavery using the Bible. For example, white Christian apologists for slavery argued that the curse of Ham in Genesis Chapter 9 and verses 20 to 25 provided a biblical rationale for the enslavement of Blacks, Chism said. 

In this passage, Noah cursed Canaan and his descendants arguing that Ham would be “the lowest of slaves among his brothers” because he saw the unclothedness of his father. A further understanding of the passage also revealed that while some have attempted to justify their prejudice by claiming that God cursed the black race, no such curse is recorded in the Bible. 

That oft-cited verse says nothing whatsoever about skin color. 

Also, it should be noted that Black race evidently descended from a brother of Canaan named Cush. Canaan’s descendants were evidently light-skinned – not black. “Truly nothing in the biblical account identifies Ham, the descendant of Canaan, with Africans. Yet, Christian apologists determined that Africans were the descents of Ham,” Chism said. 

Nevertheless, at the beginning the sixteenth century, the racial interpretation of Noah’s curse became commonplace, he said. 

 In 2016, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. offered a public apology after acknowledging that 188 years prior, Jesuit priests sold 272 slaves to save the school from financial ruin. 

This is how The New York Times first reported the story: The human cargo was loaded on ships at a bustling wharf in the nation’s capital, destined for the plantations of the Deep South. Some slaves pleaded for rosaries as they were rounded up, praying for deliverance.But on that day, in the fall of 1838, no one was spared: not the 2-month-old baby and her mother, not the field hands, not the shoemaker and not Cornelius Hawkins, who was about 13 years old when he was forced onboard. 

Their panic and desperation would be mostly forgotten for more than a century. But this was no ordinary slave sale. The enslaved African-Americans had belonged to the nation’s most prominent Jesuit priests.  And they were sold, along with scores of others, to help secure the future of the premier Catholic institution of higher learning at the time, known today as Georgetown University.  

“The Society of Jesus, who helped to establish Georgetown University and whose leaders enslaved and mercilessly sold your ancestors, stands before you to say that we have greatly sinned,” Rev. Timothy Kesicki, S.J., president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, said during a Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope. 

“We pray with you today because we have greatly sinned and because we are profoundly sorry.” 

During the early republic, Catholics celebrated the new Constitution for its guarantee of religious liberty while simply accepting its guarantee of slaveholding, according to Blackthen.com. 

Internal church politics mattered too. When the Jesuit order was suppressed in 1773, the plantation system of the order in Maryland was seen as a protection for their identity and solidarity. 

The universal church taught that slavery enjoyed the sanction of Scripture and natural law. Throughout the antebellum period, many churches in the South committed to sharing their version of the Christian faith with Blacks.  They believed that their version of Christianity would help them to be “good slaves” and not challenge the slave system, Chism said. 

“Yet, it is important to note that African Americans made Christianity their own, and Black Christians such as Nat Turner employed Christian thought and biblical texts to resist the slave system. Furthermore, Black and white abolitionist Christians played a major role in overturning the system of slavery,” he said.




Slave owners sat in the front row of the church and the church owned slaves. The church gave justification for slavery, blessed Christopher columbus journey to the Americas to enslave, rape and pillage.


Wake up out your slumber

The Largest Baal Worship Service on the Planet is in America

August 27, 2017 by Andy Roman

“They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.” Daniel 5:4.

America has fully embraced paganism as 70,000 Wiccan, Satanists, nudists, new agers, sorcerers, earth-worshippers, party revelers and curiosity seekers descend to Black Rock Desert in Nevada for 8 days of debauchery and spiritualism starting today and running through Labor Day weekend.

The annual “Burning Man Festival” is the largest gathering in the world where revelers from around the globe dance the nights away as loud music blasts a wide range of music, from hip-hop, techno and electronic.

The all night dance parties include invoking on the pagan deities, nudity, unrestrained sex and drug use, while during the day partygoers are treated to “artistic” displays and “spiritualistic” exercises, which include worshiping pagan gods. Every occult practice is on full display. This is a revival of the Old Testament worship of Baal.

The national, mainstream media is covering this event but they are reporting it simply as an “arts” and “music” festival. What they don’t tell you is that the biggest draw for the party-goers is the free, casual sex that is absolutely rampant at the Burning Man Festival. And it isn’t just one on one sex that we are talking about, they actually have an orgy tent or temple that is always open. This is what is on full display in America. Every manner of perversion is glorified.

This festival has become so popular that other nations are following in America’s footsteps and have launched their own free-love and free-spirited events in Israel, Africa, Spain, England and Australia. They all follow the same principles and and philosophy as the Nevada gathering.

Many ancient cultures such as Greece, Babylon, Rome, Sodom and the antediluvians ceased to exist for participating in these same displays of reckless revelry and sensuality. God won’t be mocked. He is about to bring the curtain down on all this nonsense which America has bought into the world since the sexual/cultural revolution of the 1960s.

The Scriptures point to a sexual  and moral depravity that will exist in our world during the last days, the period just before the time of the end. Our generation is witnessing the fulfillment of this end time sign in an unprecedented way. The sexual revolution of our time has no parallel in history.

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God” 2 Timothy 3:1-4.

How long will God allow this pagan perversion to continue? The Scriptures reminds us that there is a limit to God’s mercy.

“And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.” Deuteronomy 8:19, 20.

“And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands…And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.” Micah 5:12, 13, 15.

“And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.” Jeremiah 1:16.





America the New Rome

Washington Is "The New Rome"

by Tyler Durden

Tue, 10/24/2017 - 18:55

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Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning,

I just got back from a trip to Washington, or what I call “New Rome” because Washington’s relationship to the rest of America is the same as Rome’s relations with the agrarian and plebeian citizens of its vast domains in late antiquity.

Washington is a parasite that sucks the rest of the country dry. The counties surrounding Washington, D.C., have the highest per capita income of any metropolitan area in the country including New York, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. The unemployment rate is also the lowest of any large region in the country.

At least New York, Silicon Valley and Hollywood all produce something we need or enjoy. Washington produces red tape, taxes and new ways to handicap innovation on a daily basis.

While America staggers after its first lost decade (2007–17) and with a new lost decade set to begin (Japan, anyone?), Washington grows fat and rich. Trust me, the hotels and restaurants in town are jammed. No depression here.

This is an important observation because it has to do with how great powers decline and fall.

The conventional view of the fall of the Roman Empire is that they succumbed to barbarian invaders. That’s only half the story. In fact, barbarians had invaded for centuries and been repeatedly repulsed by Roman citizens who valued their citizenship and were loyal to the emperor and senate in Rome.

Yet as Rome grew corrupt and decadent, it increased taxes and offered less safety in return. There came a time when barbarian rule looked better to frontier agrarians than rule from the corrupt cosmopolitan center.

When the barbarians invaded for the last time, citizens welcomed them. The barbarian policy was 10% taxes in exchange for order. Rome offered 20% taxation and disorder. Citizens went with the barbarians, and the rest is history.

Rome was not destroyed from the outside; it collapsed from the center. I see something similar happening today.

So why was I in Washington?

Well, for better or worse, this is where critical decisions are made that affect war and peace, decline or prosperity and the success or failure of enterprise. If you want to provide forward-leaning analysis to readers, it’s important to interact both with decision makers and the policy experts who advise them.

I’m always happy to share what I learn with my readers, unless it’s highly sensitive material I can’t divulge for national security reasons.

Here’s the latest readout:

There won’t be any tax cut this year. As we say in New York, “fuggedaboudit.” Maybe next year, but even that’s not clear. The stock market has “priced in” a tax cut four or five times since last November. Wall Street loves a good story. So a tax cut policy failure, similar to the failure to repeal Obamacare, could be catalyst for a 10% stock market correction in coming months.

We’ve had four stock market corrections of 10–15% in each of the past eight years, or one every two years on average. The last one was January 2016, almost two years ago. So we’re due.

A 10% stock market correction is not the end of the world. Still, a quick 2,300-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average might get some attention. This looks like a good time to decrease your equity exposure and allocate more to cash.

Another potential catalyst to watch for is a possible government shutdown on Dec. 8. That’s the day the congressional authorization to keep the government open expires. Unlike the tax bill and some other issues, you need 60 Senate votes to keep the government running. That means Democrats have to go along.

The issues on which Democrats and Republicans disagree include funding for Trump’s border wall, Planned Parenthood, Obamacare insurance bailouts, sanctuary cities and “Dreamer” immigration status. You get the point. There’s no middle ground.

We’ve had several government shutdowns in the past seven years. Again, this is not the end of the world. But it does not inspire confidence in U.S. governance at a time when China is taking center stage and war drums are beating in North Korea. There’s nothing the stock market likes less than uncertainty. This could be a catalyst for the overdue stock market correction.

Finally, I met with President Trump’s national security adviser, Gen. H. R. McMaster, and CIA director Mike Pompeo Thursday afternoon.

It was a small group, invitation-only gathering. Most of my colleagues wanted to drill down on the Iranian portfolio, but my personal brief was all about North Korea. I’ll let my readers know what I learned in the coming days.

My rule on visits to Washington is not to stay more than two days. I don’t want to be captured by any swamp creatures.

So I’ve addressed some of the potentially negative catalysts coming out of Washington. But of course there are other catalysts from the purely market side…

Bull markets in stocks seem unstoppable right up until the moment they stop. Then comes a rapid crash and burn phase.

Is there any warning besides those I mentioned that a collapse is about to happen?




All the signs are there, Washington DC is the new Rome.


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that Washington DC was once called Rome?

by Moe | Did You Know?, Featured | 1 comment

This article will kick off a series of daily “Did you know?” articles where I will make a simple Apocalyptic Revelation about the world we live in by pulling the veil down from the illusion. One way I AM going to do this is by explaining how history, places, people and things have been changed from their original meanings in order to conceal them from the public over the years.

One such place happens to be built on seven hills and is the capital of the United States of America, Washington DC. Not many people are aware of the fact that before this city got its current name of Washington DC, the capital was simply named after that other city on seven hills, Rome. Yes, that Capital that holds our Senate with the Roman Eagle and Roman Fascias to this current day is in fact an extension of what once was thought of has fallen, the Roman Empire.

What this means in simple terms is that yes, the Roman Empire did in fact fall in 476 AD when Odoacer, the Barbarian Germanic General deposed Romulus Agustulus, but that doesn’t mean the Roman way completely died in this 5th century takeover. Often when one Empire falls, the intelligent new conquering King and empire just doesn’t throw the old Roman baby out with the old bath water or destroy the entire old Roman system in order to have to painstakingly create a new Anglo Saxon one. No, they simply take things over and sometimes this is as easy as taking one crown off of a deposed headless kings body and placing that same crown on their new royal heads. They even make clever family alliances in the old empire with their old enemies to further the goals of the newly formed empire.

It is a simple change of thrones, where the old aristocracy is replaced or modified, plans changed, new blood alliances formed, new bibles written to honor these alliances, new laws set in stone of scone, names allegorically changed, places cleverly hidden and history intelligently altered.

This may come as a shock to many people who are not educated on the history of the world or the founding of America, but shock of our ignorant belief system is exactly what happens during the Apocalypse. These veils that are being torn down to expose uncomfortable truths and a light that may blind those who do not want to see the light. If this is you, you may want to click the back button on your internet browser button to get out of here or at the very least, put on a pair of sunglasses because this light of this truth is so bright, you’ve got to wear sheople shades.

What is really amazing is that this information is easily found on Wikipedia;

Rome, Maryland, was the original name of a community within Prince George’s County, Maryland, which would eventually become Washington, District of Columbia. Specifically, Rome was the original community name of Capitol Hill, upon which the United States Capitol Building sits.

In 1663, the property that would become the Capitol’s site was inscribed in the Maryland property records as “Rome,” its owner a man named Francis Pope. The southern boundary of this property was shaped by a river named for the river that runs through Rome, Italy, the Tiber.

The community was part of the ten mile square tract of land which would become the American capital Washington, D.C., and its owner, Daniel Carroll, transferred the community to the federal government after the amendment to the United States Constitutionsanctioning the building of the new United States capital city was ratified.

Daniel Carroll was the chairman of a three-man commission appointed by President George Washington to find a suitable location for the capital city. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Daniel Carroll was a Roman Catholic educated by Jesuitsin Maryland and France. His brother John Carroll became the first Catholic bishop in America, presiding over the See of Baltimore, which included Washington, D.C. John Carroll also founded Georgetown University.

The facts that Washington was once called Rome was also revealed in the most recent block buster book and upcoming movie by Dan Brown called the Lost Symbol. Therefor, this Revelation is going to become common knowledge in the coming years.

This classic exchange between Abott and Costello really sums up our history, the fall and rise of empires and also the Brotherhood over the last few thousand years;






As you can see the hidden history that shows Washington DC was named Rome first before the new name. Also the Moors who are Blacks are the highest population in modern and early Washington DC just like 1st century Rome. Did you know that George Washington who the city is named after was also a Moor? That's right the surname Washington is held 90 percent by Blacks aka Moors. Some were slave owners and some were slaves. Did you know Jews were the main architects of all the major monuments in Washington DC? The second president Thomas Jefferson was a Jew and the first president was George Washington who was a Moor. Both were outwardly Christian's yet practiced Freemasonry occultism.


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WASHINGTON WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED ROME?LOST HISTORYFEBRUARY 11, 2014

Well, one of the estates which made up the original city of Washingtonwas called Rome. Have you heard about Rome, Washington? Probably not, so read on.



Rome Coliseum around 1900

D.C. has an interested historical connection to the city of Rome. This might be one of the more fascinating pieces of local trivia we have ever come across.

A long time ago, way before the city was in the thoughts of our founding fathers, back in the 17th century, there was a large estate in the area of about 400 acres. This farm occupied the land southeast of Georgetown (then, a part of Maryland). The man who owned the land was fond of Italy and decided to name the estate Rome, in honor of the city. The small body of water bordering it to the south was originally called Goose Creek, but then took the new name, Tiber Creek (i.e., after the The Tiber in Rome). Of course, the story wouldn’t be complete without mentioning that the landowner’s name happened to be Francis Pope.

According to an article I came across in The Washington Post from October 7th, 1883, the land was laid out and acquired by Pope on June 5th, 1663. Also, legend has it, that Francis was very proud of his ingenious naming scheme, often telling anyone who’d listen that America had its own Rome on the Tiber, and a Pope lived there.

The final coincidence, of course, is a modern addition to the story, as the current Pope residing the The Vatican holds the name Pope Francis, and he is the first pope ever to come from the Americas. So, while the title of this post is slightly misleading, a large plot of land which would eventually become part of Washington was named Rome.

So, there was a Rome here before there was a Washington.




Dr. Yaffa Bey she knows Washington dc is the new Rome.




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Knights who shield the child raping priesthood

Sodomy the worst of evils

Them pedophiles are coming out the church and nowhere else

They baby rapists and baby killers



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Them pedophiles are coming out of the church and nowhere else



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The modern St. Dunstan's Church was built in 1864, but the site has had a place of worship sitting on it since Anglo-Saxon times. In 2011, the church made national headlines for being the site of a youth club named The Shed. It was here in the late-1980s that the church's groundkeeper and the club's founder, former soldier William Lambert, abused children in a dilapidated hut on the church's grounds. The hut isn't there now; it's long burned down. Painful memories, however, live on.

Lambert claimed he was a warlock who could pass on his powers to the children he abused through sex. During a 2011 trial, a court heard that Lambert raped a child on a tombstone, claiming she would get power from "the black floating monk" who he told her haunted the church. Another time, a girl confided in him her fears she was pregnant. He coerced her into having sex with him by claiming that if she did, she no longer would be. His victims were aged between 11 and 15 years old. In May 2011, at age 75, Lambert was jailed for 11 years.

Dunstan, the Anglo-Saxon saint the church is named after, is renowned for his battles with the devil. Born in Somerset in the year 910, religious scripture tells us that, in later life, Dunstan was approached by the devil with a view to recruiting him to his cause. Dunstan chased him away with tongs. In the real world, however, this church continues to be soiled by the wrongdoings of the past. In recent years, St. Dunstan's graveyard has been excavated twice. First in 2012, between June and September. Then again in April of the subsequent year. It's believed that its graveyard is the final—unmarked—resting place of the missing schoolboy Lee Boxell.

Lee Boxell

"Lee was our first child," says his father, Peter, today. "His birth was a dream come true for me. I couldn't wait to get home from work to spend time with him. He was a really good kid. Average at school, but with some really good friends. He was interested in a girl who lived nearby and would often take a neighbor's dog for a walk as an excuse to meet her. He loved music. I took him to see Shakin' Stevens in concert once, which he absolutely loved. He was always calling the radio stations to enter pop music competitions. Taping songs he liked off the radio. He was quiet, well behaved, considerate, and sensitive. Possibly too trusting and not streetwise. I miss him."

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When Lee Boxell vanished, almost 31 years ago, he was 15 years old. The last confirmed sighting of him was on the day he went missing, Saturday, September 10, 1988.

"It was a warm, sunny day," says Peter. "My wife Christine was going to visit Lee's grandmother. His sister was going to see a friend and I was going shopping. I remember him coming down from his bedroom in the morning, still in his pajamas, and sitting in an armchair. I asked him what he planned for the day. Half-asleep, he mumbled something, but I could see that he wasn’t fully awake, so I decided not to ask him again. We all left the house. That was the last time I saw I ever saw my son."

We know that after his family left that day, Lee put on his black jeans, his brown suede shoes, his Swatch, and a white T-shirt with an image of The Flintstones printed on the front. He headed off to Sutton to meet his friend, Russell. The two boys mooched around for a bit, at parting 1 p.m. they parted ways. Lee, a big soccer fan, said he might go to a stadium to watch a game. His team, Sutton United, were away in Lancashire. Lee would watch football wherever and whenever. "He was crazy about Sutton United, was Lee," says Peter, "and he often went to away games on the supporters' bus—but he wouldn’t have gone that far, and not that last minute."

This was the era in which the Charlton Athletic team shared a ground with the Palace team. The fixture Lee had his eye on was Charlton vs Millwall. Following extensive reviews of crowd footage after that fixture, it's believed that Lee never made it to the match. For one thing, there's a supposed sighting of him at 2:30 p.m. outside a Tesco grocery store on Sutton High Street. He couldn't have made it to the game for kick-off.


The Boxells sensed something might be wrong at around 5 p.m.—during this era, the time that the day's soccer calendar drew to a close. If he didn’t come straight home afterward, Lee would always call at to say when he'd be back. "He always did that," says Peter. "He'd always find a pay phone, even though so many were vandalized."

"Lee's mom called me in the evening and panicked when I told her that Lee hadn't come home," continues Peter. "She got a cab back to our house. We contacted Lee’s friends, neighbors, and relatives. We called local hospitals in case Lee had been admitted after an accident. No one knew where Lee was. I knew that Anthony, one of Lee’s close friends, had gone to the coast with his parents. They lived nearby, so I awaited their return home thinking Lee might have gone with them. Anthony arrived late that night, but without Lee. I then contacted the police. They said Lee would probably turn up."

Lee didn't turn up. As hours became days, days became weeks, weeks became years—despite Crimewatchspecials, TV appeals by the Wimbledon soccer player John Fashanu, and the T'Pau singer Carol Decker, Lee's face being printed on milk cartons, and even his inclusion in the video for the missing-kid-anthem "Runaway Train" by the indie rock band Soul Asylum—the family still waited.

Lee Boxell with his family before he disappeared.

In 2013—the year that Lee would have turned 40—a tip-off in the wake of the Lambert investigation prompted police to believe that Lee might be buried in the graveyard of St. Dunstan's, just a mile away from the Boxell's family home. The idea that Lee had attended The Shed, witnessed abuse, tried to stop it, and was then killed was floated. Witnesses said they'd seen him at the club from time to time. "I do think that if Lee had gone to The Shed and seen another child being assaulted, it would have been in his character to come to the victim’s aid," says Peter.


Scotland Yard's biggest ever archaeological dig followed. Ground penetrating radar used by the army was deployed. They found nothing. Hope that answers might arise for the Boxells then came when three men—aged 78, 42, and 41—were arrested on suspicion of murder, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, and indecency with children. A 42-year-old woman was also arrested on conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and indecency with children. However, all were released without charge.

"There have been rumors Lee is still alive," says Peter. "I'd love that to be true, but it’s highly unlikely. The only sightings of Lee in recent years are by persons who are associated with the suspected murderer, so are highly suspect. If Lee is alive, others would have seen him…"

When Peter speaks to VICE, it's Missing Children Week, a drive by the charity Missing People to put a spotlight on the many missing children stories which have no resolution, which tail away with more questions than answers. "I just hope that one day someone will do the right thing and come forward and reveal where Lee's remains are," says Peter. "We need some closure after 30 years of living in limbo, not knowing what happened to our son. We just need an end."







True story about a pedophile ring founded by a church club. These perverts they work in teams which includes the high ranking, wealthy and well educated in leadership. The culprit in this case seems to be the fall guy. This pedophilia isn't rarely occurring it has always been the norm within the church yet well hidden behind community policing.


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Evangelical church accused of ignoring sexual abuse, "pedophilia ring"Sovereign Grace is not the first church to face cover-up allegations -- and it probably won't be the lastT.F. CharltonMARCH 12, 2013 8:17PM (UTC)

  

This article originally appeared on Religion Dispatches.

I was not surprised when Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), the church group I grew up in as a teen and young adult, was served with a lawsuit this past October, alleging clergy cover-ups of sexual abuse.

Sadly, I was even less surprised when the suit was amended in January to include Covenant Life Church (CLC), the congregation I had attended for nine years, and to add new charges of physical and sexual abuse by pastors, as well as allegations of abuse on church property. From what I’d seen inside Sovereign Grace and Covenant Life from 1996–2005, the alleged abuse seemed almost predictable—the result of the group’s toxic teachings on parenting, gender, and sexuality.


Sovereign Grace is a U.S.-based church-planting network (they say “family”) of predominantly white, suburban, reformed evangelical congregations. C.J. Mahaney, the current president, and Larry Tomczak—today a pastor at Bethel World Outreach Church in Brentwood, Tennessee—co-founded the Gaithersburg, Maryland church that would become Covenant Life in 1977. It was the first in what would become a network of 91 churches across 25 states and 17 countries. And it would launch the careers of several conservative Christian activists, including Lou Engle, whose ministry The Call has played a significant role in exporting American religious homophobia to Uganda, as well as Che Ahn, president of the charismatic Harvest International Ministries. Both men were among Covenant Life’s early leaders.

Five years after its founding, in 1982, the church launched what would become its overarching ministry, Sovereign Grace, originally called “People of Destiny International.” The grandiose name reflected the group’s aspirations to greater influence as a ministry, a vision that would only begin to be realized as the group shifted away from its charismatic beginnings toward reformed evangelicalism.

By 1997, Mahaney had found a new protégé in Joshua Harris, a young evangelical beloved in the conservative homeschooling community for his speaking tours and magazine for religious homeschoolers. Harris’ book I Kissed Dating Goodbye, which promoted parent-supervised “courtships” instead of “secular” dating, was published in the same year. Its popularity—the book was a Christian bestseller—and Harris’ name recognition helped bring SGM to greater prominence among evangelicals. Mahaney eventually appointed Harris as his successor as senior pastor of CLC in 2004.

The two men now boast ties with some of the biggest names in reformed evangelicalism, including Albert Mohler, president of the country’s largest Southern Baptist seminary, and Seattle’s “cussing pastor,” Mark Driscoll. Harris and Mahaney are also board members of influential, staunchly conservative organizations like The Gospel Coalition and the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.

Alongside these powerful partnerships has come strife. In its short history, SGM has been shaken by several high-profile departures and church splits. Co-founder Tomczak left in 1997 over theological disagreements with Mahaney’s increasingly Calvinist-inspired preaching, and his objection to how the church “disciplined” him after one of his sons fell into unspecified “teenage rebellion.”

In July 2011, another former church leader, Brent Detwiler, released documents criticizing his own ouster, recording perceived slights and internal conflicts in painstaking detail, portraying CLC and SGM’s leadership as fractious and dysfunctional and Mahaney as a narcissistic, passive-aggressive bully. It also charged that in 1997, Mahaney had attempted to blackmail Tomczak out of voicing doctrinal disagreements by threatening to reveal his son’s unspecified “sins.”


After Mahaney publicly confessed to this attempted blackmail, and to “deficiencies” in his leadership that seemed to confirm Detwiler’s unflattering account, he was forced to take a leave of absence as president of SGM. But his absence was short-lived; SGM’s board quickly restored him, over the objections of Harris and others, and SGM moved its headquarters to Louisville, Kentucky in April 2012. Since then, several churches have voted to leave SGM,including CLC and Sovereign Grace Church of Fairfax, the other church named in the lawsuit.

The Lawsuit

This rocky history is a fitting prelude to the controversies surrounding the ministry in recent years.


Perhaps the biggest thorn in SGM’s side has been the spate of former members’ blogs that have cropped up since 2007, starting with SGM Survivors—a site where ex-members have shared numerous accounts of SGM’s cult-like atmosphere, including cover-ups of spousal abuse and sexual abuse of children as young as two.

And in October 2012, three people whose stories were first shared on SGM Survivors formalized their complaints by becoming the first plaintiffs in the current class action lawsuit, charging the ministry and its past and present clergy for complicity in the abuse.




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Reason being these church pedophiles are hard to expose is because they work in teams. This is a coordinated effort to mask these atrocities against babies, fake charities and scape goating. Lots of them perverts are in community policing. I know the Clinton administration were loud advocates of community policing while running child trafficking rings in Haiti and Washington DC. And you guessed it correct these pedophile politicians sit in the front row of churches.


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