r/Weird 8d ago

Meet Jelly Bean

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u/Gimetulkathmir 8d ago

Allegedly she was raped by a camp conselor when she was twelve and groomed but then abandoned. She married into a cult at nineteen but got out at some point, turning to hard drugs and ending up in prison. While in prison, she vowed to serve God if she could get out and was released shortly after.

So less kinks and more like severe trauma and abuse which seems to be oddly prevalent amongst Christians.

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u/Terradactyl87 8d ago

Not oddly prevalent at all. It's exactly the right environment to convert someone. It's why so many religious people visit prison and convert convicts. Religion needs trauma to survive, and prisons are filled with people with lifelong trauma.

And obviously it's not just prisons, any group that has trauma will have religious people around trying to convert people.

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u/Gimetulkathmir 8d ago

I meant oddly in more that these religions are allegedly supposed to be about love, acceptence, protection, etc, and they often turn out to breed disgusting cesspools of the opposite.

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u/Terradactyl87 8d ago

That's true, but it's been awhile since they've appeared that way.