The most bizarre twist of logic that I have encountered regarding the churches’ willingness and enthusiasm to not only comply with but actively enforce the demonic measures implemented during the birdemic in 2020/21 is the insistence that any ongoing criticism of the churches’ actions during that time or interest in the continuing spiritual ramifications of said action amount to little more than festering and resentful assaults whose primary motivations lie in subverting and weakening the churches.
This strikes me as a strange and relatively new form of Stockholm Syndrome, in which individuals continue to hold nothing but positive feelings about institutions that abused them, dehumanized them — and in the case of churches specifically — denied them the services and processes essential to their faith.
Unlike conventional Stockholm Syndrome victims — who errantly identify and sympathize with the agenda of human abusers who hold them hostage — church Stockholm Syndrome victims somehow convinced themselves that their beloved institutions were right in their actions or also somehow victims — that the abuse and dehumanization the churches liberally inflicted upon its congregations — to say nothing of the utter abandonment of the spiritual and religious principles the churches proclaim to hold, preach, supposedly defend —had nothing at all to do with the churches themselves; that the churches are somehow absolved of all responsibility for their actions because in the end, the institutions are "good" or "Divine."
This goes far beyond the birdemic and can easily be applied to other issues the churches openly or clandestinely support, such as mass migration, gay marriage, or secular altruism. Church followers are prone to treat criticisms of such church agenda items as “malevolent assaults against the church,” even when they — the followers — agree with the criticisms.
Of course, for many (most?) churchgoers, the institution itself is an incorporation of the Divine. As such, it is sacred and transcends the actions of its leaders and priests, and retains aspects that are simply beyond the reach of human knowledge and criticism.
I posit that if church leaders and churchgoers believed that, I mean, really believed that, they would not have behaved in the way they had back in 2020/21, regardless of how fallen or imperfect they, as human beings, happen to be.
Evidence of manipulative and disingenuous tactics continued after the churches reopened. Instead of acknowledging any wrongdoing, most church leaders opted instead to shift the blame and responsibility of the closures onto their congregations by gaslighting them and guilt-tripping back into attending what were ultimately revealed to be “inessential” services. They also continued to convince churchgoers that any criticisms of the churches’ actions must be interpreted as attacks against the churches themselves.
I guess you could call this Sacred Stockholm Syndrome or something to that effect.
Note added: I acknowledge that the above does not apply to all churches/members; however, it does apply to most, which makes me sincerely wonder just what the most vociferous defenders of the churches' actions during the birdemic are really defending.
I also recognize that some readers will accuse me of being obsessive about this issue, but obsession has nothing to do with it. The spiritual ramifications of 2020/2021 are ongoing and still spreading despite "appearances" to the contrary.
Note added: The idea the churches actively participated in a direct assault on themselves and the religion they purport to represent and serve rarely occurs in the minds of true believers. That the assault extended to the Divine, even less so.
This strikes me as a strange and relatively new form of Stockholm Syndrome, in which individuals continue to hold nothing but positive feelings about institutions that abused them, dehumanized them — and in the case of churches specifically — denied them the services and processes essential to their faith.
Unlike conventional Stockholm Syndrome victims — who errantly identify and sympathize with the agenda of human abusers who hold them hostage — church Stockholm Syndrome victims somehow convinced themselves that their beloved institutions were right in their actions or also somehow victims — that the abuse and dehumanization the churches liberally inflicted upon its congregations — to say nothing of the utter abandonment of the spiritual and religious principles the churches proclaim to hold, preach, supposedly defend —had nothing at all to do with the churches themselves; that the churches are somehow absolved of all responsibility for their actions because in the end, the institutions are "good" or "Divine."
This goes far beyond the birdemic and can easily be applied to other issues the churches openly or clandestinely support, such as mass migration, gay marriage, or secular altruism. Church followers are prone to treat criticisms of such church agenda items as “malevolent assaults against the church,” even when they — the followers — agree with the criticisms.
Of course, for many (most?) churchgoers, the institution itself is an incorporation of the Divine. As such, it is sacred and transcends the actions of its leaders and priests, and retains aspects that are simply beyond the reach of human knowledge and criticism.
I posit that if church leaders and churchgoers believed that, I mean, really believed that, they would not have behaved in the way they had back in 2020/21, regardless of how fallen or imperfect they, as human beings, happen to be.
Evidence of manipulative and disingenuous tactics continued after the churches reopened. Instead of acknowledging any wrongdoing, most church leaders opted instead to shift the blame and responsibility of the closures onto their congregations by gaslighting them and guilt-tripping back into attending what were ultimately revealed to be “inessential” services. They also continued to convince churchgoers that any criticisms of the churches’ actions must be interpreted as attacks against the churches themselves.
I guess you could call this Sacred Stockholm Syndrome or something to that effect.
Note added: I acknowledge that the above does not apply to all churches/members; however, it does apply to most, which makes me sincerely wonder just what the most vociferous defenders of the churches' actions during the birdemic are really defending.
I also recognize that some readers will accuse me of being obsessive about this issue, but obsession has nothing to do with it. The spiritual ramifications of 2020/2021 are ongoing and still spreading despite "appearances" to the contrary.
Note added: The idea the churches actively participated in a direct assault on themselves and the religion they purport to represent and serve rarely occurs in the minds of true believers. That the assault extended to the Divine, even less so.
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