Christian kids left behind – by their parents {Commentary}

[Seshatneferw]

Fundamentalist Muslims often look to the age of Mohammed or the early Caliphate as a golden age. Christian fundamentalists of all stripes tend to look toward the age of Jesus and St. Paul, the early years of Christian communities or the early rule of the bishops.

More likely the reformation period, really. There's a clear tendency towards a 'purity of faith' scarily similar to the one that resulted in a vast number of martyrs on every possible side (both in outright wars and smaller-scale violence), or reduced all the Scottish cathedrals to piles of rubble (except for the one in Glasgow, where people liked the building enough to take to arms and throw out both the bishop and the extremists). Whether the modern-day followers take their inspiration from 'pure' protestant roots or counter-reformation catholicism doesn't really make that much of a difference to anyone else.

  Nfr

[RebeccaFog]

Okay, Tekla,

   I'll be changing my pants now.

[cindianna_jones]

I was indoctrinated in a fundamentalist faith from birth and somehow I broke free.  I was a cult member.  It was a tremendous bond to break and only my transgender status could have pulled me away from it.  I understand how "they" think for I used to be one of "them".

It's odd that it required my "loving" bretheren to cut me off, publicly humiliate me, and relegate me to the sons of perdition so that I might  learn true love and acceptance.

Can I ever forgive them?  I feel there is nothing to forgive.  There is only a deep understanding in my heart for their problem.  I have met mine and conquered it.

Cindi

[Kate]

I was indoctrinated in a fundamentalist faith from birth and somehow I broke free.

I do love my parents, and they weren't all that bad, BUT... I turned out about as opposite of them in terms of personality and beliefs as possible. Most of my family, both direct and relatives, share the same exact problems in life. It's sad, you can SEE it being perpetuated from generation to generation. And yet... somehow it never "stuck" to me, despite their best efforts, lol...

Maybe sometimes showing us how NOT to be... is most powerful of all?

~Kate~

[RebeccaFog]

I was indoctrinated in a fundamentalist faith from birth and somehow I broke free.  I was a cult member.  It was a tremendous bond to break and only my transgender status could have pulled me away from it.  I understand how "they" think for I used to be one of "them".

It's odd that it required my "loving" bretheren to cut me off, publicly humiliate me, and relegate me to the sons of perdition so that I might  learn true love and acceptance.

Can I ever forgive them?  I feel there is nothing to forgive.  There is only a deep understanding in my heart for their problem.  I have met mine and conquered it.

Cindi

How come you wasn't warned about the daughters of perdition?