The Church, which not only excused and forgave the sins of its leaders but enabled them: with the Protocol and the market stocks, with muzzles and lashings and twisted Scriptures. Men like the Prophet, who lurked and lusted after the innocent, who found joy in their pain, who brutalized and broke them down until they were nothing, exploiting those they were meant to protect. Their pain was the great shame of the Father’s faith, and all of Bethel shared in it. They were the bones upon which the Church was built. It was all of the innocent girls and women-like Miriam and Leah-who suffered and died at the hands of men who exploited them. It was not the Prophet who bore Bethel, bound to his back like a millstone. He thought he was the one who made the true sacrifice, but he couldn’t be more wrong. “Immanuelle stared at him-this man who’d used his lies to make himself a martyr.
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