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Telling children that they are going to hell is abusive?
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RE: Telling children that they are going to hell is abusive?
January 30, 2020 at 11:17 pm
(January 30, 2020 at 12:04 am)arewethereyet Wrote:
(January 29, 2020 at 3:59 pm)Jehanne Wrote: As a preteen, I used to suffer from night terrors about dying and going to eternal Hell.  Went on for years, even after I renounced the evangelical Christian faith that I was born and brainwashed into.  And, so, yes, I think it's child abuse.

Since I really never believed though I had to participate I didn't have the fear.  But I have a question for you...Just as you had fear that an eternal hell was very real to you was the concept of some wonderful heavenly place as real?  Did you truly believe that if you did everything 'right' you would have some beautiful after death spent with your loved ones?

I really puzzle about that.  Does hell have the bigger hold on the mind of a child brought up like that than the concept of a heaven?

I am a transgender female; I swallowed the LGBTQ bigotry of my religious youth.
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