ARE SOULS TO BE NURTURED OR EXPLOITED?

The most vulnerable part of the human being is the soul that provides the driving force for living.

All people live in families who society expects will nurture the growth of their loved ones and provide shelter from the harsh and cruel world.

Churches seek to nurture unity and love of family providing the spiritual framework for all family members.

Not all family members may be part of the church but the doors are left open for them to enter at a later time. Such churches are soul-focused.

All church members are to see themselves as sinners saved by the Grace of God. They are to be supported and helped to find their way down the narrow path to salvation.

Those who stray are lovingly restored and supported as God would do to all men and women. That is how loving churches operate. 

The door is permanently open to all. They wait for those who stray to return to family and the faith community.

But there are groups that exploit the souls of unwary seekers of truth. The plan is to entrap and remove them from their sinful families. Further contact with family is seen as a betrayal of God to be punished by the church.

These criminal sects seek young and inexperienced men and women who crave acceptance and love which is given to them in early stages by other church members.

One such church told their young followers in the 1970s that they were hookers of men and women. Their symbol was a large vicious looking fish hook. The word hooker is also slang for prostitute.

All newcomers were told they were to reject family, embrace the new family, obey the leader in all matters and give all their earthly possessions to the church. 

Family members who came to the gate of the compound were denied access to their loved one. Failure of church members to comply was punished by rejection, isolation from the church community, menial work and expulsion.

Most followers would not leave but wanted only reconciliation and return to acceptance, particularly if their spouse and children were still part of the sect.

Difficulties will arise if the spouse has become a devotee and supports the rejection of the former loved one. The stage is set for a break-up of family with one member denounced as a sinner. Church leaders rejoice.

There have been hateful divisive churches in the Christian world that reject family members. 

They include the Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientology Sect and the church of the psychopath Jim Jones who had 900 followers commit suicide in Guyana in the 1970s.

Their faith spurns the love and forgiveness of God through Jesus Christ. Scientologists reject God in favour of a galactic leader. Stupid people.

There are secular groups that seek to steal children from families. These are the paedophiles of the world who blame families for all wrongs and focus on the rights of women and children. 

They want young people to have total freedom for sex with paedophiles with the age of consent to be lowered.

The worst church of all time has been the Catholic church that tortured and killed people during the Inquisition and burned women at the stake as witches.

Torture of children has continued to the present day by paedophile priests and brothers who presented themselves as the vicars of Christ.

The faithful of the Catholic Church like those in all churches have been tricked into believing that condemning a clergy man was the road to hell. 

Why has the trial of Cardinal Pell gone quiet in Australia? Has corruption intervened to set him free? Australians have known for 30 years that he hid the paedophile abuse of children by clergy.