The Culture of Power and Hubris
Cultural clerical inbreeding has wed the "god complex" with hubris. A person who is said to have a "god complex" does not believe he is God, but acts so arrogantly that he might as well believe he is a god or that he was appointed to act by a god" and hubris applies to any outrageous act or exhibition of pride or disregard for basic moral laws."
Hubris or the outrageous acts and total disregard for moral laws displayed by today's hierarchy are readily explained by the above. Now compare the definitions above to the passage below. It was written to the members of an organization known as the Conference of the Major Superiors of Men by their then Executive Director. These words, written shortly after Boston's sex scandal broke were truly prophetic. The organization's name alone should give the reader a preview of how high they hold themselves in their own esteem. The CMSM represents all the religious orders of priests. Behold the words of those who believe themselves the divinely appointed betters of the human race.
"The days of the pass or station house adjustment for Father or Brother by the Irish cop or prosecutor are over. Either we will learn to become more comfortable in the gaze of the rude and scoffing multitude (depending on our attitude) or we will be dragged kicking and screaming into a new future for religion and religious life"8(italics are the author's emphasis)
The thought processes that allow priests to refer to the laity as the "rude and scoffing multitude" are the same ones that allow and even encourage priests to use children as sex objects. "Less than" is the operative concept; it allows the children to be treated as though they are mere baubles to be used, abused and discarded. This is the dehumanized effect: those who believe they are "better than" humanity are the ones who, in reality, lose their humanity. They suffer "the disconnect" of being separated from humanity by their vows so they had to conjure up a rationale to compensate for that disconnect. Nowhere is this false ideology more clearly stated than in Vehementer Nos an encyclical promulgated by Pious X in 1905.
"It follows that the Church is essentially an unequal society, that is, a society comprising two categories of persons, the Pastors and the flock, those who occupy a rank in the different degrees of the hierarchy and the multitude of the faithful. So distinct are these categories that with the pastoral body only rests the necessary right and authority for promoting the end of the society and directing all its members towards that end; the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors."9
Being chosen by God to lead sinners into the light goes a long way to rationalizing their separation from and superiority over humanity. But it only goes so far because it never satisfies the true itch.
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