I feel bad for religious people who have been deceived their entire lives’ into a delusion. But at the same time, I almost feel no empathy when they go out of their way to do and say the most insane stuff with religion as a justification.
I feel so bad for the kids of these religious zealots. I used to live next to a family with a little girl (12/13ish) that just played/stood around in their yard alone for hours every day. She wasn’t allowed to speak with anyone outside of their church ever or use the phone. She wasn’t allowed to have toys or really celebrate anything ever. “Homeschooled” of course. Often she’d just sit out there crying because her mom constantly used her as a bargaining chip to guilt her dad to join their religion. She told her constantly that her dad didn’t love them because he wouldn’t join their faith and that he was going to hell blah blah blah. She riled her up and made her hysterically beg her dad not to leave them and go to hell on a regular basis. It was truly awful. Sometimes when her parents left she’d wonder over to the fence separating our homes and chat with us. I hope we were able to plant at least a seed of sanity with our talks. Poor girl.
Later I had a coworker stressing out about her kid having extreme night terrors and behavioral issues because she was SO scared of going to hell. I, knowing her kid was only 7, kinda laughed and said something like “did you tell her 7 year olds aren’t ending up in hell?” To which she got angry, snapped at me, and said that she wouldn’t lie to her daughter like that. She seemed genuinely offended that I expected her to have cared more about her young child having a mental breakdown at the age of 7 than appeasing her rancid asshole of a god.
Abhorrent parenting from stupid and small minded people all around. If that’s what they deal with as kids no wonder they’re so broken and incapable of rational thoughts as adults. It’s SO important to keep this shit out of our schools.
I feel bad for religious people who have been deceived their entire lives’ into a delusion. But at the same time, I almost feel no empathy when they go out of their way to do and say the most insane stuff with religion as a justification.
I feel so bad for the kids of these religious zealots. I used to live next to a family with a little girl (12/13ish) that just played/stood around in their yard alone for hours every day. She wasn’t allowed to speak with anyone outside of their church ever or use the phone. She wasn’t allowed to have toys or really celebrate anything ever. “Homeschooled” of course. Often she’d just sit out there crying because her mom constantly used her as a bargaining chip to guilt her dad to join their religion. She told her constantly that her dad didn’t love them because he wouldn’t join their faith and that he was going to hell blah blah blah. She riled her up and made her hysterically beg her dad not to leave them and go to hell on a regular basis. It was truly awful. Sometimes when her parents left she’d wonder over to the fence separating our homes and chat with us. I hope we were able to plant at least a seed of sanity with our talks. Poor girl.
Later I had a coworker stressing out about her kid having extreme night terrors and behavioral issues because she was SO scared of going to hell. I, knowing her kid was only 7, kinda laughed and said something like “did you tell her 7 year olds aren’t ending up in hell?” To which she got angry, snapped at me, and said that she wouldn’t lie to her daughter like that. She seemed genuinely offended that I expected her to have cared more about her young child having a mental breakdown at the age of 7 than appeasing her rancid asshole of a god.
Abhorrent parenting from stupid and small minded people all around. If that’s what they deal with as kids no wonder they’re so broken and incapable of rational thoughts as adults. It’s SO important to keep this shit out of our schools.