I WAS A ROMAN CATHOLIC

IT WAS NOT SO LONG AGO...

I often remember the gruesome beatings with sticks, face slapping, pinched ears and the hard punches to the side and back of the head and the screams of other children being beaten with wooden rods.  Some were helplessly hung on clothes hangers so they could not fight back and were beaten by gangs of nuns like drunken biker chicks out for blood and blood they got.  The kids suffered split lips, bloody noses, hard pinch by twisting the skin bruising and many could hardly walk.  All were crying.  The nuns beat the hell out of us and for most of us... for no good reason!  My cousin Mark was stripped naked and forced to lie down in front of the entire class while his rear was pelted with ping-pong paddles.  I still can see him crying like I have never seen a kid cry ever again.  The fear and embarrassment was just too much.  He was beaten on his exposed naked rear end for a long time to teach a lesson to the entire class.  Strange thing is the nuns never told us what he did wrong.  They just grabbed him and stripped him down, made him lie on a long table and they worked him over.   I still remember the torture, the fear, the need to escape, to obey the nuns at all costs and to fear them mightily... and this was just the beginning of 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade grammar school! at New Bedford, MA Holy Family Catholic High School.  The nuns even had a secret place down in the dungeon to beat us so our screams could not be heard!  I could name names of other students who were tortured but I won't.  What good would it do to expose them once again to the shame we all had to endure?  We try to force the ugly past from our memories.  I could not forget.  The living conditions and beatings were so terrifying it changed me forever to fear the Roman Catholics.

  I recall complaining about this abuse to my "real" mother, but she would not believe it.  I told the priests and they said they would look into it, but the beatings only grew worse.  I had learned never to complain about the authority of the Roman Catholic Church at a very young age.  At Catechism class I got my first beating when  I remember I asked a nun, "The Ten Commandments say not to have idols.  Why do we have statues in the church?"  That nun came flying out like a witch on fire behind her desk and beat the hell out of me with full fury using open handed slaps and full fists clenched.  She scolded me, "Don't you ever ask a question like that to me ever again."  I was so young and naive I just did not comprehend what was going on.  I thought I did something wrong and "mother" was slapping me for my wrong behavior.  It happened again when I asked, "Jesus said not to call no man our Father.  Why do we call the priests our Father?"  Again I was beaten badly for my innocent question.  The Lord was giving me knowledge at a very young age it so seems to begin to see the heresies in the Catholic Church.  Boy, did I pay a price for that knowledge! I was beaten so many times I have lost count and I believe I have suffered brain damage (learning disabilities, anti-social behavior, fear of many things, always on guard from attack, anxiety, panic attacks, etc.) due to the prison camp style of learning with the Roman Catholic School.

  I sometimes see bumper stickers, "I survived Roman Catholic School" I don't laugh at them because in my mind I know I did not survive.  I walk with the scars of the hellish memories of daily torture I and other kids had to suffer needlessly.  From the fear and beatings I could not learn.  I was terrified of school and I hated school and school teachers in any way shape of form.  To  me, schools was my prison and the teachers were the Gestapo.  As a result my grades suffered and I stayed back twice with no gains.  I was "pushed" along to graduation from Grammar school without the knowledge required.  I had to attend trade school, New Bedford Vocational High's Steam Engineering department.  That went well in the trade school section, but the teacher thing still remained and I remember one ex-Marine math teacher, Mr. Duval, treating his class like boot camp, yelling, screaming, threatening, "I'll crucify you to the wall..." and that set up a huge wall of adversity and defense on my part; here we go again!  But I will not blame Duval for my ills, the damage was already well done by the nuns and Catholic priests.  As a result, I stayed back again and was finally terminated from the school for failing academics, mainly math, algebra and other school junk subjects I would never need to live a normal life.  I remember I was told I was even failing "shop" where we worked in the power plant and it  baffled me as I had two power plant state-issued fireman licenses in my sophomore year and that was considered real good to have.  My life was falling apart and it had hardly begun!

FAST FORWARD TO TODAY

I do admit I am surprised I have not ended up in prison or overdosed on drugs, very surprised!  However, I wonder just how many Roman Catholic students did end up in prison or died from suicide, drugs or whatever.  I was never a believer that one's environment could cause a person to commit crimes, but now I do believe it is very possible indeed.  I was just lucky and I believe I was under the protection of the Lord.  I had all the fears, hatred, anti-social behavior characteristics to be an outlaw.  I was just blessed that my frequent inner outbursts of fear and hatred toward others just did not explode.  However, it finally did break wide open when I got a job working inside a maximum security prison in California.  The inmates I could get along with, to a degree, as they were killers and dangerous, so was I in many ways inside of myself.  Get along to me sent simply that the convicts were not threatening to me and I was not threatening to them, so we got along on the mutual respect sort of thing.  However, with one eye wary all the time I never would trust a convict and that fear of them attacking me was real as prison staff was attacked at this super-max prison on a daily basis.  But that was not the hell to come for me.  I could function in that environment knowing who the enemy is.

  What got me was the prison system had a serious corruption problem of compromised prison guards that were setting up inmate fights, hits on staff, bringing in drugs, etc.  And the boss I had was so corrupt the word was out he was out to get me and quite a few others working in the Engineering department.  The story is a long one but the military style environment in a huge prison system that is filled with corruption, crime and wrongdoings was too much to bear.  The enemy was now on all sides; the inmates and the prison staff... even the Watch Commanders were troublesome!  I had no choice but to fight back for my own survival and authority that was corrupted was no rightful authority to be respected.  When the cops were wrong they were wrong and I let them know it, too.  And the heat just got worse and worse.  I was stressed out to the max, breaking up inside, ready to explode and I did disobey and challenge those in authority who were acting unreasonable, or disrespectful, etc .  When I started to write letters to expose the troubles the heat got hotter, real hot.  I just walked off the job never to go back. It felt good to leave to walk away from it all.  I was free!  I was still alive.  However, a perfectly good state civil service job had gone to hell.  Another good thing taken away from me.  The Roman Catholic priests and nuns did not create the corruption in the prison, but they have ruined me to respect and obey those in authority long ago.  I was still an outlaw in my heart due to the Catholic "programming" in my brain.  To this day it has ruined my life.  I have little respect for those in authority and a great deal of mistrust in those who abuse their authority.

  There's much more to tell, but then it would turn into a book and most of the stories would revolve around my poor me, poor old me, ramblings that nobody would want to hear anyway... not even myself.  My life is already ruined and nothing can bring it back anyway.

THEN THEY DID IT AGAIN...

After the prison incident I had to get medical treatment but I would not cooperate to let them know my past life.  I was embarrassed about it all.  Imagine having to explain how we were tortured as children.  They would think I was nuts.  Nuns would never torture children, but they did!  They did it to me.  But that was all in the past.  Then I got to reading the Bible.  I had no one else to turn to for help.   When I read the Bible I was shocked to discover those lying nuns were teaching us lies!  The Roman Catholic priests behind their smiles and kind voices were also teaching us treacherous lies.  No wonder I was beaten so severely when I asked simple questions that challenged the nuns beliefs.  The statures in the church are idols and people do pray to them and light candles to them. They bow down to them.  The pope has pictures of himself bowing down to statues of Mary to this day.  Roman Catholics are idol worshippers.  The Bible condemns idol worshipping as plain as day is to night.  Jesus said never to call any man your father because we have a heavenly Father already.   Every Catholic calls his priest, "Father."  Another lie the church leaders prorogate.  On these two counts alone, as a child, I was right and the nuns were wrong, but they beat the hell out of me for it.  Now, they are beating us up again with their awful lies and deceptions.

  I escaped the Roman Catholic church when I read the Bible and discovered the "hundreds" of false teachings and lies.  I was enraged to see that my entire family and friends were being deceived by the Catholic system.  They are so deep into the deception they can't see the light of salvation.  They are enslaved and they can't get out of the Roman Catholic prison.  They blindly believe what the priest or pope says is correct, even when it is a boldface lie!  Yes, the Catholics are doing it again.  They are lying to their own to keep them enslaved to idol worshipping and of course it all boils down to money-making power grabbing religion.  It's the same system the protestant denominations have and no wonder, they learned it from the Roman Catholics.  That is another story in itself.

  Did you know that the Roman Catholics removed one of the Ten Commandments written in the Bible?  Oh, yes, they removed the one about not worshipping idols.  Imagine that.  Go ahead and read the King James Version's second Commandment.  The Roman Catholic version conveniently has no mention of not worshipping or making idols.  By altering God's Commandments they can have their idols.  But that does not change God's point of view.  Those who worship and practice idolatry will go to hell's fire.  God will not be mocked.  That is what is so dangerous about false religion, it can take you directly to hell.  To expose these false religions is serious business as many will perish.  At the least, we should warn them and show them the truth.  If they reject it, then they have made their decision to believe in man's false system, not God's Word.  Freedom of choice is their right.  Just at least give them "a chance and a choice."

YOU NEED TO LEARN THE TRUTH

Jesus is the truth.  The Word of God (King James Version) is the truth.  If you deviate from the foundation of truth then you are being deceived and you will perish in hell.   That is what Jesus says.  That is what the Word of God says.  It is better to fear the Lord God than to obey men's lies.  If you really want to learn more then you need to get knowledge.  Click here to read articles on this Website.  Click here to read some books about Apostasy. 

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