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obamanut2012

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4. When you study it, it's very much brainwashing

Reply to Starry Messenger (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 5, 2012, 08:45 PM

Dec 2012

and even some Stockholm Syndrome. They are taught to fear and to accept being controlled so they will go to Heaven. Religion has been used for thousand of years by TPTB to control people, and women and children usually get the shortest end of the stick. It drove Andrea Yates literally insane, and taht insanity drove her to protect her children's souls by killing them. She didn't happen in a vacuum.

In the US alone, we have the FLDS, LDS, and many other Fundamentalist sects and religions.

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Christian Union Bans Women From Speaking At Meetings [View all] obamanut2012 Dec 2012 OP

Fundies in the UK too... Sad. peacebird Dec 2012 #1

There have been for a very long time obamanut2012 Dec 2012 #2

Why would any self-respecting woman be a part of something so backwards? Starry Messenger Dec 2012 #3

When you study it, it's very much brainwashing obamanut2012 Dec 2012 #4

True, and it's why the most successful at it require members to shun those outside of the faith. n/t Gormy Cuss Dec 2012 #5

This obamanut2012 Dec 2012 #6

Partly brainwashing, as said downthread, and partly wanting power. yardwork Dec 2012 #7

Our culture is not that far out of considering women and children chattel...in one form or other. libdem4life Dec 2012 #8