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This is a repost from 2015. There is a tasteful feature today, Former homeschooler on the Duggar family’s horrifying fundamentalist “education”: “It’s literal rape culture”. It is about what you would expect. A young man was raised by well meaning parents. They home schooled him using bizarre materials. The young man grew up, and did not agree with his parent’s religion.
“I call myself an “apatheist.” I just don’t care anymore. When it comes down to it, I guess I’m pretty much agnostic. I don’t think that anyone could really know the truth and I don’t care to really find the truth. Going to church for me is still traumatic. I just have a very visceral triggered reaction to everyone singing the same song. I always find myself criticizing and critiquing the sermon, but it’s weird because I won’t only criticize it from a fundamentalist point of view — “Oh this guy is totally not doing his Bible right” — but I also criticize it from a secular point of view — “This is all horseshit.”
This may be tough for some believers to understand, but not everyone is obsessed with God. Maybe she exists. Maybe she doesn’t. Maybe the world would be a happier place without God. It is entirely possible to live without a firm answer one way or the other. Many say that your opinions/beliefs have nothing to do with what happens to you when you die.
Many people have bad experiences with religion. Some see this trauma as an invitation to abuse the non believer more. Maybe, if you hear the scheme for life after death ten thousand and one times, the last recital is going to do the trick.
What many believers do not comprehend is that not everyone gets off on talking about life-after-death. Church has devolved into a high pressure sales meeting for a life-after-death scheme. If you don’t agree with this concept, then there is no point to Jesus. Some Christians think that their ideas about life-after-death justify the emotional abuse they heap on others.
The young man is the article talks of a homeschool survivor community. (The article links to an inactive blog.) If this can help him with his trauma, then good for him. Many people who have been abused by Jesus worshipers… and, by extension, by Jesus… do not have this community to fall back on. The struggle with Jesus abuse can be a lonely one.
Pictures from The Library of Congress. All things are possible in a world without God.