a brilliant description of growing up fundamentalist female

[J a c k]

Wow, Mamacita . . . what a story.  Yeah, I get it.  Imagine trying to look up "homosexuality" in a Christian school library in the early '70's.  Yikes!   
I remember coming home from a flute lesson in the summer, and nobody was at the house.  I didn't find anyone at either neighbor's house.  I looked down the street and didn't see ANYBODY.  So, I deduced that the Rapture had occurred, and I had been left behind.  My brother found me crying in my closet.  The tale can make folks chuckle now, (silly little girl!) but I really think that fundamentalist teaching is child abuse.

Exactly. Funny now, but nobody could understand how it felt livng it, unless they did.

[Pat Mustard]

That's some fucked up shit Fuzz.

Tell me about it mh.  What's worse . . . is children accept it completely.  It usually takes a serious life-conflict of some sort to shake that brainwashing lose, and I think that most folks get to teenage years at least before they even dare to question - anything.  Darcy wrote a really good description.   It's important to let folks know that this type of upbringing exists all over the world.

Children are almost hard-wired to believe authority figues. For most children throughout history that has been a good survival strategy. But in cases like yours it goes horribly wrong as those in authority don't give two shits about those in their care only wanting an increase of power.

I'm really disturbed by that story Fuzzy, it's absolutely barbaric.

[robvalue]

I'm very sorry to hear what you've all been through

Thank you for sharing your stories. I think it's very important to get this message out there, to try and make parents think a bit more before thrusting their religious indoctrination on their children.