The cesspit that is fundamentalist religion was covered eloquently in the BBC drama series Mr Wroe’s Virgins. Which featured that scene with Minnie Driver ditching her clothes. But is watchable for more than that - it’s a searing indictment of the manner in which fundamentalist religion becomes a vat of poison in pretty short order.
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Ask yourself, what does any sexual abuser need to fulfill their desires? Trust, power and access. The church…any church…is the perfect place to acquire all three. Add in the “forgiveness” clause of Christianity and a sexual predator has found Nirvana…it’s like getting gratis grace from a PEZ dispenser…
Think about it…even if they catch you, just squeeze out a few tears, ask for forgiveness and leave the incident with whole new sense of manipulated grace… You couldn’t attract more sexual predators to your institution if you put a sign on the door inviting them to apply…
When you find yourself believing that a guy on a boat spent a little over a month floating around with a literal boatload of animals to repopulate the earth…but you don’t believe a vaccine could prevent measles…well, you sort of set yourself up for it…
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Unfortunately, the family is a far more common place to acquire them.
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And many times it’s just generational trauma.
That’s an issue America is going to have to come to terms with eventually. Laboring under the myth that “…every parent is a good parent…so there’s no need to be intrusive…” countless numbers of children have lost a piece of themselves to not only sexual abuse, but emotional abusive, neglectful and narcissistic abuse. Not to mention the minefield of having parents with diagnosed\undiagnosed mental health issues.
To an abuser, control is paramount. Hiding behind some societal collective denial or a clerical cloak just makes it so much easier…
“The sleep of reason produces monsters.” – Francisco Goya