When religion is presented as an evil thing, it's often turned into some hokey approximation of the actual thing. Unfortunately, this particular type of psychological damage isn't dealt with enough in media. ![]() Most of the time, people just repress it and put it on their own kids. By the time they're old enough to forget it, they've been taught self-destructive methods of thought that take years and years of therapy to unearth and grapple with - if they even get that far. That's the terror of making children active participants in certain branches of organized Christianity, isn't it? You're taking a still-forming brain and exposing it to all sorts of negative ideas about guilt, shame, penance, what have you. If my dad's physical abuse wasn't going to get me, then my warped version of God was certainly going to. I'd ruminate on death daily as young as five, and bartered with God to not take me away if I did something bad. I went to a private Catholic school where I was gaslit and physically abused by the teachers. ![]() Every night, I'd recite the Lord's Prayer in fear of divine retribution. This article contains spoilers for Outlast II.ĭepending on the denomination my dad was following that year, new and exciting ways of living with shame were baked into me at a young age. Content Warning: Sexual Assault, Child Abuse.
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