(September 3, 2016 at 12:01 pm)Jesster Wrote:(September 3, 2016 at 11:59 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Here is a big difference: abusive spouses are real.
Haha, very true! Even so, there's still the same use of control in the doctrines and the church of the religion.
Then I think it's fair to say that the church(es), or church leaders are like abusive spouses. They are real entities. You can't say the christian god is like an abusive spouse. It's like saying that the God Apollo is a like a serial killer, or the Joker from Batman is like a mental patient. Why compare something imaginary with something real? It also distracts from the real people who are actually like abusive spouses to lay it on a fictional person. There are real clergy doing real abuses. That's not the fault of some imaginary character. It's the fault of actual people who actually exist.