I attended a training for Religious Trauma, Spiritual Abuse and Cult Recovery within the past year, thinking I was going to learn more about Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA), a subject I’ve been studying and am passionate about. I was horrified to find that the entire training focused on the traumas related to Christianity, no other religions, just Christianity. As a Christian who was raised Catholic, I am very much aware and accepting of the fact that there are traumas associated with being raised in any Christian religion but I feel that more and more, Christianity is under attack, under attack by atheists, by agnostics, by former Christians, by those of other faiths, by the social engineering and programming of the day, and by the Satanic/Luciferian elite.
As a therapist who has worked with people from all different faiths, I am open to learning about and have respect for all religions and belief systems – as long as they don’t intentionally harm others, especially children. But I have noticed more and more, that it is Christianity that seems to be under the most attack by others, even among Christians from different sects within Christianity. But I was highly disappointed to find a training that seemed to be more all-encompassing, given the title of the training, that in fact honed in on how bad and traumatic Christianity is to people. The training was hosted by two young, millennial-aged White women who were college educated and used the latest “higher education” vernacular such as “BIPOC” (Black Indigenous People of Color). I don’t know any people of color who refer to themselves as “BIPOC.” It is a term created by White people to apply to people of color. The training is approved and accredited for Washington state counselors and social workers such as myself. It was also promoted and sponsored by a well-known training platform for mental health providers.
The trainers pathologized coping skills that are based on spiritual matters. For example, they called it “spiritual bypassing” if you try to find a spiritual reason for your pain or suffering. As a Christian, this is a coping skill I have always used with great effect. They called it “spiritual stoicism” if one is encouraged to transcend negative emotions with spiritually-based trust and acceptance. Again, these things were pathologized. But it was spiritual stoicism that got me through life-threatening cancer, through a painful divorce and through my hearing loss. It is spiritual stoicism that a lot of Christians use to get through painful moments in life. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) uses spiritual stoicism in a sense and it is one of the successful organizations that helps alcoholics and addicts recover and stay sober. Terms like “spiritual reasoning” and “spiritual discipline,” which are both pretty self-explanatory, were also terms used to pathologize the use of spirituality to cope with suffering and hardship. They also called it “spiritualization of illness and healing” if one tries to make sense or meaning of their illness and/or their healing from an illness. But this idea of “spiritualization of illness and healing” is not just inherent in a lot of Christian religions but also in a lot of indigenous cultures and religions such as Native American shamanism. The whole training seemed anti-spiritual.
Like most trainings these days, there was a special focus on the LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) population. Because this is the one minority population that affects Whites and especially White males, this is why this is the minority group, that most people of color would agree, is given special treatment and consideration. For example, there are some trainings for mental health providers that you can’t get into unless you are “BIPOC” or LGBT. So, if you are a gay White male, you are given preferential treatment over a woman of color who isn’t “BIPOC.”
I have been trained by gay White males many times in those specialized trainings because they are the ones that are promoted and favored in my field of work. But the reason I bring up the LGBT+ population, is because of what the trainers of the spiritual trauma training said about what they called “denial of legitimacy.” They said that the de-transitioning movement was an example of “denial of legitimacy” which they defined as “refusal to name or validate queerness or gender nonconformity.” For those who aren’t familiar with the de-transitioning movement, this is the attempt to inform people who want to change their gender, and possibly start hormones or have top or bottom surgery, of the red flags to be aware of based on the testimony of those who chose to do those things and came to deeply regret it. I was shocked at what I was hearing from the trainers: that is it not considered “legitimate” to accept the gender you were born with if you had previously questioned it. WTF?!?
I feel that this pathologization of the de-transitioning movement relates to the indoctrination that the Satanic elite, who do transgender their children, sometimes in utero or in infancy, perpetuate with their far-reaching influences in our institutions of higher learning, government, healthcare, and media. I’m not saying that there aren’t people who legitimately are transgender but I do feel that the Satanic elite are trying to make it mainstream because it is part of their belief system to desecrate or mutilate anything “made by God.” Other than transgendering their children, other ways they do this is by the sodomy ritual, cannibalism, and human sacrifice rituals. But the training did not address any of that. It seemed to only attack Christians.
I understand that one of the main reasons Christianity is attacked so much is because of its history of condemning those who identify as LGBT+. I agree that there are lot of Christians who attack those in the LGBT+ community but there are also Christians who don’t. Also, there are other religions that condemn those in the LGBT+ community as well but none of those other religions were discussed in the training I attended. It was almost as if the message was that it’s okay to attack Christians because they are the most oppressive of all religions. I agree that the Roman Catholic Church has a history of oppression, but a lot of Christians don’t even accept Catholics as Christian. I grew up Catholic and I can say that there a lot of great things I learned from the Catholic religion such as the need to be in service to those less fortunate than yourself.
As someone who reads and researches a lot about SRA survivors, I have noticed that it is Christianity that is likely their saving grace in finding their way out of the “Beast System.” Survivors such as Laura Worley, Brice Taylor, and Hope Beryl-Green all found the strength and the courage to leave the cults they were raised in through the power of Christianity. But the anti-Christianity movement has been underway for decades, if not centuries. It has been obvious in popular music since the Beatles, who made anti-Christian statements, and The Rolling Stones, who were open about their Satanic allegiances. It has been embedded in movies, TV shows, social media, news outlets, government leaders, influencers’ content, institutions such as education. healthcare, and other industries. It is pervasive. It is everywhere!
The ironic thing was that the trainers portrayed Christians as people who have been “indoctrinated” into a belief system. They don’t realize and most people don’t realize that so have they… only in an opposing way or direction. And that opposing way, whether under the veil of atheism or “science” or “agnosticism” or other ideology, often is connected to whatever they have learned or have been brainwashed to believe by the Satanic elite. Are some Christians leaders or sects steeped in Satanism? Absolutely! People just don’t understand how far-reaching Satanic doctrine has become and how their every attempt to unravel the moral tapestry of modern society has seemed to become a successful slippery slope into the undoing of our humanity. Some scholars call this the “Totalitarian Tip Toe.” Whatever it is, we have to fight it together. We have to unite and stand up together against it instead of giving in to their attempts to divide us in various ways through controlled opposition. What it’ll take is waking up to the fact that we are being fooled. But as Mark Twain said, “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”