Remember Pat on SNL?
By accident last night I discovered that Julia Sweeney who played the gender-ambivalent character “Pat” on Saturday Night Live, has a blog.
She talks a lot about atheism and religion and recently posted about the recent raid on the LDS ranch in Texas.
She pointed out how frightened the children must be.
The children are caught between a rock and a hard place. They’ll clearly want to be with the families and their community because that’s all they know but at the same time their parents are teaching them nonsense, raising them in slavery and shutting them off from the outside world, a classic characteristic of an abusive, controlling relationship.
Lately I’ve been remembering how much terror I felt as a child being brought up Catholic and being taught by nuns who continually reminded us how we were going to Hell if we didn’t do what God wanted us to do, which coincidentally was always what they or the church wanted us to do.
I’ve certainly dealt with the issue many times before so I don’t know why it’s been on my mind so much lately. Maybe because of the LDS raid or the fact that I recently read a book about the history of the LDS church.
I feel for the kids too.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Religion is built on delusions and is therefore a form of mental illness. Religion forced on children is child abuse. Terrorizing children into obedience is wrong. Destroying their ability to think rationally with religious dogma is wrong as well. (See my book.)
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