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I Want To Connect With Others Who Are Hurt By Religion
Connection, Community, Hope
I just crawled out from under some traumatic circumstances that has been my life. My children and I have been hurt beyond measure. The levels of pain, agony and trauma have been unbearable for me. I did not think I would survive. And I still fear that the effects to our health may be too much to recover from. We are still hurting and struggling.
I can trace throughout my life, what religion has done and what it has caused. I was loyal, compliant and wanted above anything to please God. That also hurt us.
All throughout my situation, the religious have failed to care, love or help. They have done more than that. They have made my situation much worse. And I can also say that the religious have created the environment that encouraged and enabled many of the negative things to happen to us.
Everything looks different coming out of my experience. My life would have been better without religion.
A long and ongoing sequence of things has happened that has unraveled my entire religious grid of beliefs. Most all that I have ever known has been wiped away. Even though most of those things are negative, the pain and grieving is still there. Actually I cannot think of one belief system that remains.
