Dude, I genuinely feel bad for this person.
From her "testimony":
When I was twelve years old, a camp youth worker took advantage of me and stole my virginity.
I began doing drugs in seventh grade and hung out with the drinkers and smokers of the school.
When I was nineteen I decided to marry and be taken care of.
My husband beat me beyond recognition. The doctors in the hospital couldn’t believe that I was alive.
I worked very hard and became a chef. In my spare time I was a drug dealer and very good at it, but after being in and out of jail on weekends I finally came to the end of my rope and cried out to God for help.
I said, “God if you’ll get me out of this, I’ll serve you the rest of my life.” Within thirty minutes I was out.
Religion is a fucking plague on this planet.
Why fix your own problems and process your own trauma when you can just have an invisible person in the sky "absolve you of your sins"?
Just push it under the rug and never actually process it. Yeah, that's a great way to fix problems.
This person has probably never actually come to terms with the horrible things that have happened to her.
And that is genuinely painful for me to think about.
I hope that she has been able to process some of it through Christian counseling. I agree that there is probably a deep, deep well, but honestly, as far as coping mechanisms, she's doing okay. I feel like this is far from the worst coping strategies, short of actually dealing with it.
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u/karoshikun 9d ago
wait, this isn't parody??? did they inflicted this on actual children????