Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

If there’s one thing most miserable people in the world have in common, it’s that they are incapable and/or unwilling to accept an essential fact of life - there will always be victims in the fallen world in which we now live. Although at significantly different levels, pretty much each and every human being born into this world has experienced, either real or imagined, some sort of injustice committed against them. What is often overlooked, perhaps due to the traumatic perception of the injustice, is how one should and could be expected to flourish as a person after experiencing the trauma of an injustice itself. In my unprofessional opinion, the attitude one takes towards an injustice has more of an impact on the spiritual welfare of the individual and the countless souls who are ultimately affected by that particular person’s existence than the act of injustice itself. Of course, one’s attitude and the degree of subsequent healing can also be affected by one’s personal motivation and coping skills, or lack thereof. As with DNA, no two of us (even identical twins) will react in exactly the same way - as such, we should never expect the same reactions and outcomes of victims of similar injustices. I think this is often overlooked with those who attempt to reject the assertion that SSA is a disorder and the long term effects that childhood trauma can have on this and other disorders. One must also acknowledge that what constitutes trauma in one child may not in another. While not denying similarities among children, I would still claim that most children react to trauma and perceived injustices in a manner that is often specific them.

So what does this all have to do with heretics? I would argue that a point of motivation among dissenters is one of reacting to the anger - which takes root when one of the most self-destructive, mal-adaptive coping mechanism known as self-pity becomes their primary source of comfort and cosolation. Let me offer a few quotes I found that I think may help explain the behaviors of those who have grown to distrust and despise the concept of authority as well as the reality of who and what they are as human persons:

“Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.” - Millicent Fenwick

“Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.” - John W. Gardner

“Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.” - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

“There are few human emotions as warm, comforting, and enveloping as self-pity. And nothing is more corrosive and destructive. There is only one answer; turn away from it and move on.” - Dr Megan Reik

I believe I can understand to a certain degree why Catholic dissenters feel justified in their open dissent. I imagine many of these afflicted souls who have found refuge within the lies of radical feminism, the SSAD lifestyle, sexual promiscuity and other sexual deviancies, choice, etc… are attempting to exorcise their “demons” by displacing their own fear and anger and project it toward those whom they believe are ultimately responsible for all of their misery and lonliness, providing them with a sense of entitlement by which to spew all of their vitriol toward the authority of the Church. They do it with the hope of filling the spiritual and emotional emptiness caused through their self-pity blame game and its attendant demons (see above) to whom they have given home. They are hoping that all the wrongs will be righted for them and the world. Of course, they only momentarily drown out their interior conflicts.

Ironically, and perhaps even hypocritically, the objective of Catholic dissenters is not to remove a repressive authority from the Church, but to forcefully replace “it” with one of their own making. Their aim is to remove the obligation of having to deal with the truths that come into conflict with our sinful, fallen nature. It is not easy making that initial shift in thinking from perceived master to humble beggar, where one is continually humbled with the reality of his own personal failures, faults, and sinfulness.

Of course, it is not the case that only those who embrace self-pity become dissenters of the faith. Politics, poor catechesis, laziness, apathy, etc. are also major causes. I’m sure there are also other reasons. Nevertheless, I do think underlying psychological pathologies also play a significant role in drawing many to found, lead and/or join the host of notoriously anti-catholic Catholic organizations that plague the Church today.