An enlightening (if sometimes lying) description of the enemies of religion per se has been given by the Religion News Service. In an article published this January, author Kathryn Post says the following:
“Religious trauma has been a thing since religion has been a thing,” said Laura Anderson, a Nashville, Tennessee, psychotherapist, co-founder of the Religious Trauma Institute and founder of the Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery, who is presenting at the [Beyond the Wound] conference. The term itself, however, is a recent coinage as psychologists have identified trauma more broadly and developed new strategies for treating it.
“When 2016 hits, we started to see this exodus of people coming out of churches just being very confused about the result of the election of Donald Trump. That’s where I think publicly it started to become OK to talk about and name,” said Anderson, adding that the #MeToo and subsequent #ChurchToo movements also raised awareness of spiritual abuse and religious trauma.
Ideas about religious trauma often overlap with those discussed in the religious “deconstruction” and “exvangelical” movements, aimed at debunking toxic theology and restrictive religious environments. [The truly evangelical condemnation of wicked lusts (usually relating to whoring, and especially when it refers to sodomy and catamitism) is what is meant by “toxic theology and restrictive religious environments,” as becomes clear when the so-called testimonies of the deconstructionists are examined.] …
[T]he symptoms of religious trauma are similar to those suffered by people who have lived in a war zone or in abusive environments. The recovery process, however, is different. Rather than working through being triggered by a car backfire, for instance, a person healing from religious purity culture, which glorifies sexual abstinence [the children of this apostate world are always happy to voice their never-ending opposition to all purity — whether it be purity of doctrine or of life is irrelevant], might adopt a new framework for understanding sex and relationships, said Anderson.
Danielle S. Castillejo, whose Wayfinding Therapy practice specializes in healing racial harm, sexual harm and religious trauma, said helping clients recover from religious trauma often involves inviting them to listen to their bodies. [This is of course impossible prior to apostasy, for Christians know that they are engaged in a lifelong battle against the flesh, that there is nothing good in them, etc.] …
All presenters at this conference come from Christian backgrounds, including current [?] and former Catholics, evangelicals, Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, though people of any religious background are welcome to attend. Religious trauma can impact people from any religion, the founders said, and they hope the conference will grow in religious diversity in future years. [The devil will certainly be aiding them in this endeavor.]
Bakkar and Erickson are careful to point out that the conference is not anti-religion but anti-harm. The point isn’t to prescribe a religious or nonreligious path forward — there are plenty of deconstruction spaces for that. [With this endorsement of “deconstruction spaces,” these slaves of Satan have shown their earlier word to be less than worthless.]
An oddity which the reader should be aware of: Laura Anderson, a psychologist quoted favorably in Post’s article, falsely presents her organization as avoiding a rejection of the faith. However, a closer look at her words reveals them to be a mere deception, for her remarks against fundamentalism (which is what unbelievers, completely without exception, call all true Christians), her praise of “deconstruction,” and the platforms she has disgraced with her presence all show her to be one of hell’s most faithful devils.
Now, it would be completely dishonest if I were to pretend that so-called Christians are entirely innocent regarding deconstructionism. Rather, the condemnation of Scripture remains on such wicked men, especially if they are pastors, who have horrified the world with their whoring: “The name of God is blasphemed among the heathen because of you.” But it would be equally dishonest to consider everything which the world has labeled “purity culture” as falling under this divine condemnation.
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