Written by Alberta Parish
When someone has come face to face with pure malevolency, it changes them. Learning how to come to grips with it is what's most challenging to many people. Even then, you'll never really get a pure understanding of the nature of unadulterated pure evil.
In Sound of Freedom, the character played by Jim Caviezel, crosses a point in his life where he either confronts the evils of child sex trafficking that plagues our culture and society. Or he sweeps it under a rug like much of American society.
The actor that plays the real life hero Tim Ballard appears to be shaken up by the evils that he himself have witnessed in the world of child sex trafficking and exploitation.
Having played the controversial historical figure known as Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, Jim Caviezel is no stranger to the face of evil. However, during recent interviews in which he promoted his new film, whenever I've peered into this man's eyes, something's definitely different. Something has changed. He no longer sees the world the same way he once has.
There are certain things I wish I could unsee, because forever it is burned into my subconscious mind. Once you see pure malevolency, you can't unsee it. Therefore, many people seek psychotherapy to cope with the trauma and malevolency they've witnessed. Many people end up on medication. Many people even become suicidal.
There are people in the world today that does not think or act like regular humans. These individuals have allowed dark matter to enter them or they have cultivated the darkness that was already within them from, perhaps, their childhood.
Many psychologists and psychotherapists who work with child psychopaths and children with narcissistic personality disorders know that there is a high potential for these children to grow up and become serial killers. Whatever hypersexualized activities they were exposed or overexposed to, perhaps, as children tends to be the driving factor behind the crimes they may later commit in the future against children. Many pedophiles are psychopaths.
The difference that separates a psychopath from a sociopath is empathy. One completely lacks empathy while the other has very little empathy for others. The empathy chip is completely missing from the psychopath, which is why many who harm children don't see anything wrong about what they've done. After raping a child, they don't see anything wrong. They don't care how it impacts society or families or communities. In his mind, the pedophile looks at a child, and they don't see that a child can never consent to sex. They see the child as a willing participant in their own fucked up fantasies that they have projected onto the child.
In the state of Georgia, the age of consent is 16. I think the age of consent should be raised to the age of 18, because of the predatory nature of many 30, 40, and 50-year-olds that purposely seek out teenage girls below the age of 18. Many of the predatory men are looking for some sort of sexual fulfillment that they cannot get from women closer to their age because, perhaps, they're not sexually aroused or attracted to women closer to their age. They may not get sexual arousal from women closer to their age, so they seek out teenage girls below the age of 18.
My grandmother's generation was forced into holy matrimony at very young ages like 15, 14, 13. Charlie Chaplin married a teenager who was 18 when he was in his early 50s. Elvis Presley was 25 when he married Priscilla at the age of 14. Baby Boomers were having children at 13 years of age by adult men. Children cannot consent to sex, and every adult knows this whether their pedophile mentality have justified it or not.
If we did not have current laws on the books regarding the age of consent, which is 16 in the majority of the States, we would be overrun by pedophiles marrying underaged girls!
We know the barbarism that currently exists in Islamic countries. In fact, those countries are overrun with child marriage and child slavery including sex trafficking of minors.
Jim Caviezel's life has been forever altered by the images that are burned into his subconscious mind. But I am reminded in the scriptures that God won't put upon us anymore than we can bear. The Supreme Being knew that Caviezel could bear this burden and go through it and come out on the other side victorious. I believe Caviezel knows that he has a rough road ahead of him because people are running scared in the world of child sex trafficking due to his new film, Sound of Freedom. May this film become a great commercial success, and change the hearts and minds of good people and provoke us to act now in the interest of protecting children from these predatory beasts that prey upon them. Whether you have children or not, it is our responsibility to protect children. If we do not protect them, who will? We have the resources to protect children, so how come child trafficking has become a billion-dollar industry? Because good people have sat back and did nothing to stop it from growing and spreading. However, if we all do our part to shed light upon the dark world of child sex trafficking, and not just sit back and act like you don't see it, then, perhaps, changes will begin to take form and rip out the guts of this global network. This is a true cause to join and push.
As a survivor of childhood molestation, I cannot even fathom what small kids and teenagers who are forced into the sale and trade for sex is even going through on a regular daily basis. But I can empathize. And Sound of Freedom is already having an impact on me although I have yet to see the film, because I'm already losing sleep over it.
Jim Caviezel is a very brave man. I don't even know if I could ever have put myself in the middle of operations to bring down child sex trafficking organizations, and it's not because I'm fearful for my life. It's because I might literally go insane if I were ever to see the things Caviezel has seen with his own two eyes.
I'm really in shock, and I haven't even seen the film yet. But I've seen quite a few interviews, and it is horrifying the things that I have heard. All I can say is go purchase a ticket, and support this movement to end this humanitarian crisis of child sex trafficking, and be ready to possibly have a few sleepless nights.
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