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Traumatised Christians Fr Charles Soyombo

    Despite trauma being associated with past painful experiences and early childhood dysfunctional events; one can be traumatised momentarily. It’s any disturbing experience that produces an overwhelming and unmanageable emotional response. Relatedly, the traumatic experiences of Christians are not limited to the Nero's persecutions, the beheading of John the Baptist, the killings of Holy Innocents, the mingling of the blood of believers by Pilate or the biblical narratives of how holy people suffer rejection but also includes institutionalised trauma by religious leaders. There is an increasing but disheartening way that some churches weaponize the scriptural injunctions and spiritual obligations to do intense damage on the psyche of their members,”. As a result, there is a breakdown of multiple systems in the idea of a compassionate God that forgives as prophetic utterances, visions and messages spew doom.  Amongst the handlers of the words of God, there are rotten eggs. While t