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Indoctrination (feddit.de)

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[–] Bakachu@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah my sister's 8 year old had a fun chat with me on how she wanted to save me from burning in hell for eternity. I feel like this is child abuse.

[–] TheBenCommandments@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

That’s because it is.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given the trauma one endures as a result? It absolutely is.

Indoctrination is why they believe as a kid. Brainwashing is why they still do. It's pretty disturbing looking at it after deconverting.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminded me of something that came across my RSS feeds the other day from a dev and podcaster who I like to follow:

I grew up as a “different” kid in a fundamentalist church. As a young child I had urges and thoughts that I constantly feared would send me to hell. When I wasn’t worried about my eternal soul, I was worried about my non-Christian friends and their eternal souls. By the time I was in Middle School I was drinking and trying to cope with what amounts to a constant fight or flight response, in addition to grief.

Being neurodivergent, queer, and highly sensitive was not a good combination for me in the church I grew up in. And I was taught to put all of my value, all credit for my successes, and all forms of attachment into God, not earthly things. So when I decided the church wasn’t good for me (or, in my mind, for anyone), I had the secondary trauma of leaving. Becoming emotionally estranged from my family, losing my Christian friends, and losing a god, the one thing that I had ever believed could save me.

There's quite a bit more, but that's the relevant bit.

https://brettterpstra.com/2023/07/30/personal-update-cptsd-edition/

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I wished that their story was an isolated incident, but my best friend went through some similar things. And I relate to some of that as well.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Absolutely is abuse. It is truly sickening how religion is accepted without any question of the mental status of those who practice the religion.