Easter approaches to celebrate new life shown in Nature’s spring and thoughts of victory over death.
Where is that victory for those living in religious domestic abuse?
Why would some churches, preaching the belief of life over death, support abusers over victims?
The soul attacks levied against women and men who stay in religious domestic abuse belie the words preached on Easter morning.
The life force in Nature seems stronger than words preached on Easter morning
That’s because, too often, the faith that is promoted is based on fear.
Some organized religion has chosen the side of a static, not a dynamic faith, because of its power to control.
A dynamic faith emphasizes abundant life from the Spirit within. Believers are encouraged to seek their fullest development as pleasing to God. Confidence that God is love, love prevails, is the reason for life. The good is the basis for human relationships. Human dignity works with God to uplift everyone.
A static faith leaves the believer a beggar, relying on power outside of them. A belief that their worth comes from salvation rather than the power of God within. It emphasizes fear and suffering rather than victory. God may or may not answer pleas and the believer never knows just what God’s will means. Even if they do, they have no power to live it.
Nature shows us that there is no life without a Power outside and inside ourselves to keep us alive. Christ revealed the identity of that Power that dwells within at all times, just as the life force is working in the earth even when we don’t see it.
When churches rob women of faith from claiming their inheritance from the resurrection, they are promoting a fearful faith.
Women are not second-class souls. The power of the resurrection belongs to them as to all believers.
How can you help a fearful believer refuse to be subject to the bondage of religious abuse and claim God-given freedom?
How can you help a religious body claim spiritual equality for victims?
I agree that people are more easily controlled when they are not encouraged to believe that they have within themselves a direct connection to Jesus Christ Spirit. It is the promotion of fear and that only certain outside sources have this the direct knowledge and connection to God that makes it easy to be controlled for outside sources’s gain or benefit.