Religious Fanaticism as Part of Child Abuse

*** possible religious triggers *** I am reading the book The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff for my Book Club and really enjoying it. The book is about the polygamy in the Church of the Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) and has two storylines. The first storyline takes place in the present day in a [...]

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Faith Allen’s Story – Spiritual Abuse

*******trigger warning – religion triggers******* As I shared in my last blog entry, my mother found religion when I was eight. I accepted Jesus as my Savior and got baptized in a Baptist church. We then left that church and joined a group of people who met in each others’ homes. They were really “into” [...]

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Faith Allen’s Story – Mother Finds Religion

** religious triggers ** When I was eight years old, my mother found religion. She was staying in a hotel and took the Gideon Bible (which I found really funny – “stealing” a Bible!). She joined a Southern Baptist Church, where I learned that I was going to hell unless I was baptized. Apparently, it [...]

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Spiritual Abuse: Child Abuser’s “God Addiction”

A while ago, I wrote about Spiritual or Religious Abuse as Part of Child Abuse. A reader posted the following comment: In a previous comment I mentioned that I believe that my mom’s spirituality functions a lot like an addiction…almost like an alcoholic. You said that you identified with that. Is that something you would [...]

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Spiritual or Religious Abuse as Part of Child Abuse

******* Religious triggers ******** I have not really talked about spiritual abuse on this blog. However, after reading Blue Orchid’s comment on this blog entry, I realized that there are probably many more of us out there who suffered from spiritual or religious abuse, so we need to talk about this topic. What exactly is [...]

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