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RT @charliebelllive: General Synod is evidently totally broken and unable to function. Everything is now a proxy debate for sexuality, whic…

@charliebelllive Ultimately the @churchofengland do not want to implement independent #safeguarding and they will find wriggle room to get out of it every time. They aren’t to be trusted. They have much to hide.

RT @charliebelllive: Dr Grenfell said: "I don't think we can hide behind those complex structures, that's just not good enough for victim…

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I love the de Havilland Air Museum. Very interesting day out, whether you are an #aviation geek or not

“We disagree on the level of disagreement we are having.” Anglicans are turning into a parody of themselves 🤦‍♀️🤣💀💀

RT @TIME: Trump says he met with the president of the Virgin Islands. But that's him

I'm sorry that happened to you. I'm learning just how spiritually unenlightened many Christians are. They aren't so different from the primitive fishermen and the crowds that Jesus 'fished' two millennia ago. As so many practice it, it can be such a selfish religion that pretends to be about loving your neighbour but it is not that. The corruption and cruelty is manifested in evil Christian structures as well as in the pews. Jesus doesn't 'save' them from being so spiritually wretched that they weaponise His words to abuse others. They'd say 'everyone is broken' but not 'everyone' is sanctioning abuse, which is way more than broken. It is entirely evil and it is their choice, for too many Christians. Christian forgiveness is weaponized to the point that they seem to be instructing victims to let themselves be abused, like Jesus did. I hope you got out of that situation. Christians, especially in leadership, can exhibit cruelty with no conscience and use Bible verses to back it up. That's one reason why the Holocaust wasn't stopped by Christians generally, just a few (Kolbe, Sophie Scholl). They just had to look in the mirror to see why the Church and Christians did nothing to help - it is who they are, and what they believe. My abuser was telling members of the church parish congregation that he and I had a 'private joke' and that he often indulged in sexual activity with me... and he wasn't sure why I had been upset on that particular occasion (!). It is truly sickening, and what made it worse is that people believed them wholesale. Disgusting people.

Haters gonna hate, and there is no hate like Christian hate. How small Christians must be. I don't read anything he writes. Abuse can be supported in so many ways, such as attacking victims. I was expecting an article from him that would use the church of England #safeguarding and clergy abuse victims to get clicks, and from your reaction, he intends to provoke and upset people and it is working to use these topics to his advantage. Perhaps he can find better ways to spend his time and energy.

#Synod #GeneralSynod

Whether the @ChurchofEngland changes the #CDM process or not, do not take their 'pastoral care' at all. Why would you ever take pastoral care from an institution which is hell-bent on perpetuating abusive systems from pew to Palace, and harming victims who speak out? It is intended to harm you further by exploiting the little trust you have left. They will completely shatter you. It is purely for them to deliver 'tough love' and it is NOT confidential. The risk is that your abuser(s) will receive a report about the sessions along with everyone else. The pastoral care solution is another way to extract information from victims while pretending to care; that information can go back to abusers as well. It can go to whom the Church regards it as 'good for all parties' including the abuser. They want to dig around to see how Police investigations are going.

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@reformparty_uk Taxing renewables isn't going to help, particularly when renewable energy is still viewed as optional rather than mandatory. If you are going to ban BESS, what will you do instead - CCS? As an aside, why don't you run cables alongside railway tracks?

RT @JanetHFife: @DianaBr95650186 I think personal repentance is different from corporate repentance. In numerous speeches and interventions…

The Church does not have personal or corporate repentance, despite their self-satisfied preaching about forgiveness and restoration. Victims are not restored, but neither are abusers personally. There is no restoration from a corporate POV either. They expect victims to forgive. People in the Church of England do not engage with Christian forgiveness when they are the ones who need to ask for it. If an abuser who calls himself 'Reverend' is making obscene gestures at women in the street while stalking other women, it very much suggests to me that he has not personally repented. If the Church say it is not their business because it happens outside a Churchyard, then that is not corporate repentance. Nobody in the Church has ever asked for my forgiveness, and it should not matter from a Christian POV whether they are going to receive it or not.

I agree with Hugh. Have you read 'Something's not right' by Wade Mullen? It explains this situation very well, and it has been helpful to me personally. Hugh, for reasons I can't remember, I blocked that person you are responding to, so they have upset me previously. Everyone is 'vulnerable' in the presence of a predator. EVERYONE. That includes strong adults. Vulnerability isn't a feature of the victim, necessarily. It can be a feature of the situation, and a Reverend will have the upper hand. If you look at Maslow's hierarchy, these clergy start to groom and destroy people at 'self actualisation' and then work their way down to physical safety and removing 'shelter'. Stay away from the Church of England - it is a Petri dish for such people. Clergy can go after broken people, but they also enjoy the challenge of attacking the strong people in the congregation because they like the challenge and the risk. On the topic of risk, it isn't true that clergy will go after children OR women. They can do both - look at Jimmy Saville for example, a religious man who seemed to go after anything female. We can't assume clergy who attack adults are not going to groom and attack teenagers. Clergy can groom people, and use their thirst for 'living water' to promise a way to become part of a congregation. This is what happened to me, partly because he was the only person who seemed to be welcoming and took time to get to know me. So I was 'set up' right from the start. Everybody, from vicar to people in the pews, knew what he was like. They followed the vicar's example and did nothing, so he set an example which he would label as faith and Christian 'forgiveness' for a repeat abuser. It isn't 'forgiveness' to look away when someone is in danger, simply because the culprit has 'repented' and has clearly lied about his previous remorse. They affect the parish, but they also affect the Police as well when they interact with Police and 'no comment' their way through interviews and give absurdly contradictory and false statements. They commit all sorts of sin and the abuse is one of them. So when they 'repent', what do they repent of? The things that got them caught? They choose to look away, rather than do something when he is targeting new people and going to repeat his behaviour. If these people are model Christians, then I can't get far enough away from Christianity. Their talk of restoration is utter BS - if God can't or won't restore victims, then we must remember that abusers are not restored either. They do it again, and role-model Christians let them and call it 'forgiveness'. Even now, if a woman comes forward to say that he is making them 'uncomfortable', their response is that he is being supervised - but the fact is that the supervision is inadequate or they wouldn't be feeling 'uncomfortable' in the first place. The church culture is toxic, and if there is anything about you to dislike, then they will find it, e.g. female, less wealthy, divorced, broken, not broken and so on.

@EvanKirstel Thank you for the laugh - I needed that today! This is very true.

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I’m sorry to say that you’re correct. I think it’s also a risk to the elderly at home. I’ve raised safeguarding concerns to the church before about specific situations of members of the clergy visiting elderly people at home and they didn’t do anything. In the end, I contacted the police myself with the details. It was a huge burden for me to carry alone, particularly when I need to do my own healing. Did you know that the church don’t keep a record of clergy doing home visits, and when? IMHO a vicar is the last person I’d ever let in my home. Abuse can happen to anyone and age isn’t a barrier for someone to be abused. Elder abuse is terrible because the elderly aren’t always very comfortable about talking about sex to younger generations. Get the church defunded and disestablished. Future generations will thank us