Putting priests on a pedestal (Main Forum)

by Dolores , Northeastern USA, Sunday, May 13, 2012, 01:17 (376 days ago) @ Ian Lawther

... That being - that we're talking about priests and bishops here, the ordained of God, who are, or at least once upon a time were, looked upon as nothing short of "god." To be sexually abused by "god" is doubly, triply, or infinately more traumatic than being abused by a quirky uncle, school teacher, or even a Protestant minister.”

I was never taught that the ordained of God had any sort of equality with God. I don't understand where people get this idea. Priests do not transform the bread&wine, forgive sins, baptize etc. Only God can do these things.

I don't understand how people come up with this sort of thinking. It has been obvious for 2000 years that these men are very imperfect. They denied and betrayed God when the going got tough.

We put priests on a pedestal expecting them to be "better" than us. And we kept them there even when we knew they were slipping.

When anyone falls from the pedestal we put them on it seems so much more horrific. But it's because we expected more, we wanted a perfection, we looked the other way at anything that suggested that maybe they shouldn't be on a pedestal.

To imply that one person's evil is worse than another because WE thought they were God is keeping them on that pedestal. Until we accept them as humans, we will never be able to move forward to a better reality.