Friends,
there is so very little understood about shame in Catholicism. I understand the
veil. It is difficult for you even to hear me speak about it. This is precisely
because of the way that it affects you. I have even heard a Traditional
Catholic priest utter the abominable words, “a little shame is good for a
person.” I will stop calling you retards. I apologize about this. It is not
becoming of a gentleman. You need to know that you are wrong about this issue.
God does not desire people to be shamed. This is the issue: shame is a
different thing from guilt. It seems to incredibly common sense to me. But I
will bear with you while you lap up the drool from the floor beneath your low
hanging jaws. This, you need know. This is not new revelation. It is common
sense. Sense you have forgotten because of your sin and trauma. Actually,
Catholicism is a very shame-based religion. The whole unworthy thing and
penance. Don’t get me wrong. It is a path the salvation. But, by saying God
desires our penance and self-abasement is fencing God in. It kind of makes Him
out to be a sadomasochist.
This
is the difference between shame and guilt. I will lay it out very clearly for
you so that your eyes don’t glaze over and roll back up in your head. Guilt is
the recognition of one’s wrongdoing. This is healthy and can lead to
repentance. Shame, on the other hand, is a feeling created by trauma that one
themselves are unlovable, worthless and beyond forgiveness. This is the key.
Are you keeping up? Do you need me to slow down for you? This is the key: Shame
is almost always crafted into hearts by trauma and ill will. It is the reason
you are unable to hear me speak about this. It triggers grave injustice in your
hearts that has happened to you. I have written other articles about the topic
of shame. This was probably one of my most important articles despite being the
least viewed. I will leave the definition there. Except to say that healthy
guilt can motivate conversion. Persistent shame is not spiritually healthy. Mark
my words, regardless of the justification you are using to reason your
oppression of me, a time will come when you will be grieved terribly for the
way you have treated me. It is not a thing I necessarily desire. You are unable
to see it now because your hearts are cold. When again, you are thinking
lucidly and feeling with love, it will come upon you in an instant. In this
time, the religious leaders shall try to convince you not to grieve. It is for
your best. After some more time, you will see their true motivation. You will
see their evil has been the cause of all of this. There will be justice in this
life. Soon, also, you will recognize this is not my will or a will that I am
imposing. Rather it is God’s will. They cannot see it because they are far from
God. They are too vested in self-preservation. You will realize when your
hearts are melted. Be at peace. Shame is crafted within us while we are young
and innocent. This is the reason it is so antithetical and incompatible with
Spirit of God.
God
does not want us to feel shame. Any priest that would suggest such does not
understand the concept of shame and its distinction from guilt. God always
calls people to repentance and not despair. Awareness of sin is important, but
God desires a reconciliation and healing not a lasting sense of humiliation.
Jesus came to set the sinner free. Not condemn them to a life of shame. A brief
awareness of one’s sins can prompt repentance while ongoing shame that destroys
hope or one’s sense of dignity is not Christian. Not all shame comes from
personal sin. Being abused and traumatized causes deep shame. This is despite
having done nothing morally wrong themselves. What this truly is about is
compassion. I know. I have spewed a lot about compassion over the years and
empathy. Perhaps, this was even because of me. Know, there is a difference
between false compassion and compassion. How can you know the difference? When
a person or group of peoples intend your harm and destruction, this is false
compassion when we make excuses for them and deny their behavior. We were all
children at a point. Therefore, we were all innocent at a point. Here: We must
learn to differentiate between the man who has commit sins in his past, yet who
seeks reconciliation with his heart, who is repented and the man who commits
violence and has no intent to change. I ask you sincerely, do you truly believe
that their response to me is in love and for the purpose of shepherding my
soul? They are spiritually abusing me. It is evident in the fact they gossip
about my confessions. Here is the thing: I talk big. In reality, I am one of
the frailest men in the world. Do you want to speak about resilience? They
transgress Jesus’ commands to care for the orphan and the weak. Here: Toxic
shame shapes our identity. Suffering stumbles. Consciences are stumbled. Is
this even up for debate any longer? If it’s true, the sins I commit were not
mortal. If this is true, they are persecuting the righteous. Shame, this
interior sense of unworthiness is not only not of God, it is satanic. The
evangelicals have correct: Jesus liberates. Satan imprisons. Jesus frees. Satan
shames. Catholics, I have seen you over the course of my being one of you,
travel from liberation to slavery. Be free. Religion shall not save you. Faith
will save you. Works, you need realize are not important. If they were, the
child in utero would not matter a thing. His murder would be not only
permissible, but it may also be beneficial. Importance of the individual based
on works is of satan.
Look,
I understand that you are proud. I understand that you have paid a lot of money
for your diplomas and papers proving that you are a counselor. I implore you!
Sometimes, sacrificing yourself for the good or for God’s will is a good thing.
Serve. Serve the children. This is about the children after all. In preventing
and hindering this blessing upon the world, you are not really spiting me. You
need to know that what you are doing by depriving this world of its blessing is
you are condemning innocent people to torture and death. Worse than that, souls
are being lost. This is not so much about me. This is about a blessing for the
world. You are hindering God’s will. Instead, you are ushering the flock, the
flock who trusts you and listens to you like innocent infants, to the
slaughter. I am not criticizing the leadership. But you need know that the
information you are receiving is not entirely true. Everything. The history.
The science. The morality. Stand up. You need know that saints will not be made
through global techno tyranny. Be shepherds for your people. For the flock who
trust you. Those who look up to you and would die for you. Don’t let their
martyrdom be in vain.
Suffering
itself, suffering for suffering’s sake does not make one holy. Unless that
suffering was endured for His glory. It’s about how we react to suffering. But
it’s about more than this, isn’t it? For if righteous suffering were simply
about our reaction, what could be said about the holiness of an aborted baby?
He is not holy because he had not a body to react well to the suffering? Or he
is not holy because his body cringed in utero? Cold hearted son’s a guns. I
literally do not know what to do with you anymore. Suffering is holy if God
asked us to endure it. If it is endured for truth. If it is endured despite
sin. All children who suffer are holy. All children who die are entered into
the presence of God. Is this heretical to you? You are a retard. Ops. A
simpleton. Here’s the thing: If a child commits a sin after being stumbled
their entire first nine years on earth, this child is still holy despite their
sin.
What
I need is the love I never received as a child. When Christ came to me, I was a
mess, emotionally, physically and spiritually. I had a wounded and stumbled
conscience. I still struggle. 90% of the ways you see me as sinning now, are
simply your feelings. They are trauma responses. I think I really owe it to
myself to stop, look backwards and see just how far I have come. I need to stop
feeling badly about who I am. I need to stop seeing everything that is bad and
negative about me. I need to recognize that I am a child of God. And that that
is paramount to any despair, any trauma and any failure I could have. God fills
this gap with His Holy Ghost. I want this. I want to live and love. I don’t
know how to. I am learning. And I am fighting so darned hard for the life that
I know I deserve. Had something been done about what was happening to me, you
know that I would have been a king. I would have had the love of many women.
People would have helped me recover. People would have helped me reintegrate.
Justice would have been done for me. Despite, I don’t need love as a reward for
something I’ve done or said. I don’t even need reciprocal love. What I need,
what I crave and deserve is unconditional love. There is only one place from
which to get that. When my mission is accomplished, I will be at peace. Still,
how can God’s loving touch be felt if a man has never felt the loving touch of
a human being?
Jesus
called them together and said, “’You know that those who are regarded as
rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise
authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever
wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be
first must be slave of all.’” See, this passage has caused the oppression of
many Christians. It is true. But we do not need be a beggar on the street to be
a servant. Name of God! We need not even be a servant, in the literal sense, to
be a servant. This is what you miss: God is glorified when we are glorified.
This is what your communism has taught you. This is truth: You can be a
billionaire and still serve. It is not about the money. The blessings. This
Church, Catholics, seems to have convinced you that God desires you in dust. By
James, Peter and Paul! Where has this even come from? Money is not evil.
Blessings are not evil. That I even need say this is retarded. I didn’t call
you retarded. This is the takeaway: Serve in your hearts. Are you a
billionaire? Help financially. Are you a nurse? Serve your patients. But do it
from a place of love. Otherwise, you are simply helping a clump of meat. Are
you a teacher? Serve your students. Teach them with love. We can all serve. It
just means placing the needs of the other before our own. I learned this at the
religious community at which I stayed. We can serve not only tables. We can
split wood in service. We can fold laundry in service. We can cut vegetables in
service. It is a state of heart then. Not a financial or economic sentence. My
goodness!
“Each
person should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.” For a
long time, I got hung up on this passage. Passages like it, like he who desires
to be exalted will be humbled. And he who humbles himself will be exalted. I
feared that accepting the glory that God had prepared for me would go against
these passages. I refuse to believe this lie any longer. We should know that we
cannot perform a closed reading of Scripture with the intent of getting at its
entire purpose. We need to read it in context. The context of the Bible is
God’s love for His Creation, His glory. These passages can be contrasted with
others, like, “Do not lose your saltiness.” Or “You wouldn’t light a lamp and
place it under a bushel.” God wants to glorify us. This is how He is glorified
on earth. But we cannot forget that while everybody in this world suffers, some
suffer a lot more. There are reasons for this.
So
you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, 'We
are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’” Luke 17:10. I got caught
up in this verse too. Surely, I was reminded about it weekly by faithful. You
need to know, faithful, that your God does not want to make you holy by the
suffering you endure. He uses it. It is not His intent. He desires you to be
glorified greatly on this earth. It is in this that He is glorified. Yes,
humility is essential. We get more practice in humility surrounded by
blessings. You have made your church, you have made God Himself a masochist.
I’m
not looking to be rewarded. I’m looking for peace. I believe strongly that God
will use me. I was kind of born for this. But “For the corruptible body weighs
down the soul, and this earthly dwelling presses many thoughts upon the mind”
(Wisdom 9:15). I truly believe that when you wake up, when again you are given
hearts of flesh, you will help me. I am weak. I am hurt. But, listen to this: I
am right. I have God on my side. I am willing to be a martyr even in this state
for the sake of the children of the world.
I
didn’t write that prophecy I found online. Nor was I created for it. That
prophecy was written for me. Things were to be much better. I am kind of
ashamed of what I forfeited because I didn’t feel worthy and couldn’t trust. I
am not just a prophet to the Church. Let us remember that worldly glory is not
necessarily conflicting with God’s will. We don’t have to be a religious to
serve God. We can serve God in so many ways. Doctors are serving God. If the
heart is in the right place. Roadkill removal service technicians are serving
God. If their hearts are in the right place. #David. # Solomon. I shall still
be a king. Even after I die. See this is the glorious thing about our God. You
cannot even kill us. Do you not see the beautiful irony behind this? Your
twisted evil compels you to end a life because you feel it will put an end to
these bright, bright lights. In reality, you, in your twisted evil, simply
crown and walk hand in hand toward the Kingdom to usher your victims in, before
you yourselves get booted out. Well, thanks!
I
don’t have to explain myself to you. Just know this: you are persecuting the
righteous. The “Righteous” persecuting the righteous. Where have we seen this
before? Keep it coming. You cannot break my spirit.
Do
you believe that I deserved or wanted the abuse I endured because I did not say
anything? Here: You are unable to accept into your hearts the devastating
effects of shame. When abuse begins early in childhood, when boundaries are
toxically infringed without any respect, the child will learn helplessness.
This is not a character trait on their part. For me, it goes a bit deeper than
this. Threats were used. Bribes were made. Lies were told. The effect this has
on a child’s psyche is devastating. Something you cannot understand because
your hearts are frozen rock. For me, I dissociate when experiencing these
violations. I cannot speak up if I have no memory of it. This is really about
the state of your hearts. Do your hearts tell you that it is fine and just to
perpetuate the abuse of a middle-aged man because he cannot speak up? Do your
hearts tell you that it is fine and just to abuse in the first place? The
gaslighting my abusers shamed me with caused me to question my own reality and
perceptions. Whether they were real or not. You think I am less of a victim
because of sins I commit. You will see! Wait. Anyone else with the same
sufferings would have not only died but commit much worse sins. Wait! You will
see! 😉
To
enter people’s bedrooms at 3AM. Can you really and truly not see this as a
violation of their humanhood? God sees what happens in the darkness. Even if
you are strong Catholics. Good luck in purgatory, you widow and orphan makers!
Don’t
forget that there is a story, a whole life behind my testimony. Things will be
made clear. Things will be better. This is about truth. You know the things
that happened to shame me. There’s no sense in reiterating these things. God is
going to wake you up to the fact that you are becoming murderous with your
envy. He will show you just how you have become bullies. Be at peace. It is not
your fault. The responsibility lies entirely in the hands of your leaders. They
will be called to a greater account.
Jesus,
I never said I was nor would I insinuate that I was a savior. Jesus is the only
king. For me to downplay the nature of my mission would not be in true
humility. Humility tells the truth. And you give honor where it is owing. I am
a prophet. Who would argue that the world is in a bad place? Is it a Christian
idea that the world deserves to be in a bad place? I believe that God would
want to give His children a chance to repent first. Is this such a bad thing? I
see. It conflicts with your political agenda? Perhaps you are not Christian at
all. Perhaps you have more to do with your comandante than you do with your
God. Your choice. So sad.
I
recently finished reading a book on childhood sexual abuse recovery that
juxtaposed the experiences of a number of very brave and beautiful people,
their experiences with sexual trauma as children, to that of the sufferings and
betrayals of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was a beautiful yet sobering book. I
think that the biggest gift I received from the book was an outlet in the
process towards the healing of my own shame. For a long time, probably since
before I can remember, I suffered from a false toxic shame as a result of
others actions towards me. The journey to recover from sexual abuse is very
real. But so is the ability to heal and recover with the Spirit, to become
emotionally clear and purified. The book shared this verse: “This is the
message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there
is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the
darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as
he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of
Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we
deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all
unrighteousness” (1 John 1:5-9). Abuse is sin and causes damage to its victim.
The paradoxical tragedy about abuse is that abuse survivors live with the
damage created by someone else’s sin. Shame is very real. And it weighs us down
deeply. The effect that gives abuse its power is not so much only the timeline
of events. It is an extra dimension of shame and secrecy, fear and silence,
justified anger and suppression. This passage from 1 John emphasizes the fact
that Jesus can cleanse us from all sin and unrighteousness. Even if that sin is
not our own. God would never hold a child abuse victim responsible for what
they endured. They are just children. We need to tell God the truth as it is in
our lives and allow God to cleanse us from that truth. We need to acknowledge
the damage caused by that truth. I prayed this prayer a couple of days ago.
Wow! Physically and completely, I did not expect to be healed. But I am feeling
so empowered. I am feeling for the first time as though I have an identity. I
feel like my feet are connected to the ground on which I walk. It could be
simply endorphins I feel about the faith I feel for the future. I will say
this: by accepting truth and shedding shame, we can become stronger,
compassionate and empowered people. I get encouraged to think about the first
time I set foot in a counselor’s office, the first time I entered my group
therapy and recognize immediately how well I am doing today. I remind myself of
just how far I have come. At my worst, relearning to breathe and swallow my own
saliva. At my worst, dragging my feet through the parallel bars at a children’s
rehabilitation hospital. At my worst, fixating my sight at the clock in front
of me in my own bedroom, in dissociation because it was too painful to even
feel. At my best, content in my faith. At my best, feeling good about myself,
who I am and not being ashamed of being a human being. I’ll never forget the
first time I realized the terrible impact of what happened to me. The sudden
awareness of all of these terrible things done to me, the sudden awareness and
deep guilt for things that I myself had done was shattering. But I was not
alone. And that painful experience was definitely not the end. There was hope
in my future. There was peace after the struggle. There was contentment after
the fear and shame. I’ll never forget the first time I walked into my group
therapy for men survivors of child sexual abuse. I was shivering and emotionally
closed off. It was in learning to be vulnerable that I was able to better
understand and embrace what I have been through. We need remember at every
point in this life, because we are all walking along this path together, we are
not alone. We need learn to depend on one another. Mostly, we are not alone
because we have One who has gone before us. One who has suffered the human
experience greatly, who has felt shame, humiliation, who has been betrayed and
injured deeply. One who has conquered death, suffering and fear so that we are
able to LIVE. I want to take an opportunity to thank you for your faith in the
past. I know that what I could have given you was more. Please continue to have
faith. There is a reason for everything. And I pray the reason will be
revealed. I ask you to remember the countless times I turned my cheek to
oppression and violence. Please remember that I forgave. Remember that I
overcame a massive injury and terrible crimes. I know I push away offers of
love and attention at times. Please just remember the fact that I was never
permitted to develop the emotional, social and tools of intimacy that many grow
with naturally. It’s not an excuse. But it’s a reason. It’s a reason I am
fighting very hard to correct. Shame is not temporary. Shame is something we
carry with us. And that shame accumulates. Please remember what I have been
through when you examine my life. This is not about reputation or what we do or
say. People are very much more than simply what we see on the surface. This is
both Biblically sound as well as Catechetical.
What
is the remedy for toxic shame? For shame in general? This is a difficult
question. It is a mindset unlike most others. From my understanding, every
emotion has a corresponding outlet. Some way through which we can channel that
emotion. Sadness, sorrow. What do we do with sadness? We cry. With joy, with
happiness, we can smile, we can laugh. With anger, we learn to express it in
healthy and constructive ways. With shame, however, what I am learning is that
the only remedy is to speak your heart. To speak your story. We need to be
honest with our emotions and learn to become vulnerable with our true selves.
We need to heal our inner children. We need to take care of ourselves. After
all, if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others? Jesus heals.
Absolutely! Oftentimes, within the shame carrier’s story, there exists a great
many misconceptions and areas of faulty thinking. Basically within these
stories, lies exist, either told to them directly or developed out of
frustration of trauma. These lies have to be assessed and reframed in order for
the survivor to be healed completely. For their true selves to emerge. At which
point, the love of Christ within a person has the potential to become truly
manifest. That love can bloom and blossom. Look at the child. They are
unconcerned with worldly things such as money or people’s opinions. They simply
chase their dreams. They simply dance and beat to the drum their own beautiful
hearts emit. This is what the Gospel means, “To enter the Kingdom of Heaven, we
need to have the heart of a child.” This does not mean being childish. It
simply means being unrestricted by the weights of this life. To be free. To
have one’s spirit in harmony with their body. I am learning this. Still, I am
carrying the repressed emotions from my childhood still. Dang, I was terrified
of people’s opinions as a baby. Because unfair burdens were placed upon my
shoulders as a child. Burdens that not even adults should have to carry. Let us
remember the vast complexity, indeed resilience of childhood. Though they are
resilient, they are vulnerable as well. What is done to them and around them
affects them greatly. I simply want to encourage you tonight. Children are so
precious. Life is so incredibly precious and beautiful. They are also
incredibly vulnerable and impressionable. We need to care for them. We need
give them a future, which they can laid hold of firmly and confidently, with
both hands, saying, “thank you for giving me life. I exist today, because at a
point in my existence, somebody (many people) decided that I was worthy of life
and of the investment in my life.” Let the little children come to Jesus. For
He loves such as these.
The
suffering I endured in my childhood was a crucifixion. I would have died had I
not been carried by angels. This suffering was for God. Regardless of whether
or not it was endured in Christ, it was for the glory of God and for the
reparation of sins. For all of you. God always intended to reward me for the
suffering I endured. Is it His will I be hurt more? It is not a punishment.
This penance is not for me. It is for you. To satiate your envy and contempt.
If Jesus descended from the cross, what would be your reaction? Perhaps this is
the only question we need to answer to define our faith. Would you continue
spitting on him? Tell him to man up? That he needed to do more penance since
God doesn’t choose favorites? Would you nurture and tend to his wounds? It’s really
very telling. Regardless of what Catholic Church tells us, God does not want us
to suffer. Okay. They even agree God doesn’t want us to suffer. Here’s what
they almost always miss. God, in point of the clearest manner of truth, always
wants to reward us. How much more so when a child of His suffered for Him in
childhood? It is simply unjust for God to ignore one who willingly suffered for
him? Did this one commit sin? Yep. God knew the risk when He asked him to
suffer. You are being bullies. You don’t even see it yourselves. A bully picks
on the one who is weaker than them. Who is smaller than them. But it always
stems from the bullies insecurities and inadequacy. I have seen it and been
there. I was abused at home. I bullied as a result. Do you believe God will
justify your bullying of this one because of your sick, gross and perverse
envy? I’m not afraid to suffer. Here are my wrists. Quit pussyfooting around
this. I am saying: This was never the will of God until your filthy corruption
and envy was revealed. What you are interpreting as sin in me is simply trauma.
Can you not see? They are trying to get rid of me. What I claim, if true,
invalidates everything about their religion and faith. This is spiritual abuse.
Still, so be it. Here are my wrists. Not everybody shall have complete victory,
vindication and justification at their deaths. Some are going to experience a
mighty humiliation. Good luck. Fighting against God!
I am
losing strength, Church. I am so tired. What gives me strength is not me. It is
all of you. I know you must be tired and exhausted as well. I know even that
this is the reason for your hardheartedness over the past couple of years. I’ll
tell you that the reason this blessing is being postponed is not because of my
sin. We all have sin, don’t we? The reason your blessing of the world has not
come is because of your leaders. It is out of envy and contempt at the fact
that God could choose a sinner and not them to enact his will. They are sinners
as well. This blessing will come one way or the other. I am telling you the
truth: within five years, the world shall be completely renewed. It shall be
glorious. You are doing so very well. Despite your sin, your concupiscence, you
need to know that your God, Jehovah loves you with an everlasting love. He is
not ashamed of you. If you come near to Him, God will be your friend. He will
rejoice in you and bless you enormously. You have been on Jehovah’s mind for
much time. He desires you to know that He knows you are tired. He desires you
to know He is going to personally wipe every tear away. He has taken note of
the great works your world has done, the great feats and works of literature
and art. He desires you to know that you need to develop a relationship with
Him. He desires you to know that you need not accept your own murders. Stand up
and fight for yourselves. This does not need be done from battle. Your leaders
need simply stand up and change the tide. Repent you, leaders. Or your
humiliation will come swiftly and coldly. He has grown tired of your
corruption.