First- my intent here is not to tear apart the beliefs of any one here, or to promote my own views on religion.
If a faith in a higher power is helpful to you I would be a very bad person to do anything to shake that support and I do not intend to do anyone harm.
Many Topics posted here are posted with a warning that the contents may be triggering for others. I would also like to warn that the discussion of religion and it's contribution to PTSD may trigger a negative response in some readers and I urge you to stop here. Right here. If a discussion of religious views will upset you when others post a view opposing your own, you should read another thread today.
Thanks, on with my post:
My father and stepmother are people with very little ability to think outside their religious box. Any critical thinking about religion is a sin in their minds and they will literally fall to their knees and pray for forgiveness if an objective thought about religion enters their minds.
Growing up in this environment was very much like growing up with robots for parents. They sat at my table and ate thanksgiving dinner with me every year, they sent out birthday cards to my kids every birthday right up to the day we parted company several years ago. But looking back, I cannot recall any real conversations with them or any real love from them in the entire history of our relationship. They were like robots, totally unavailable for emotional interactions. Everything in their lives was all about devotion to their church, and all decisions were made with a deference to the teachings of the leaders that literally filled shelves on their bookcase.
I feel like I was raised under the direct guidance of a deranged false prophetess from the 1850's that started their cult and created generations of these parent/robots.
If you can relate to this, I would like to hear your story.
If you think you are the victim of what I would call "religious narcissists" for parents, I would like to hear your story.
For those of you preparing a defense of religion in parenting, I would urge you to start a different thread, I don't want to see this become a debate. I already agree with you, I think that most religious parents are fine people that raise their families with love and care and don't create PTSD sufferers. Just like anything else, there are degrees of religious parenting and there are degrees of negative and positive experiences within those families.
Religion gave us Mother Teresa, and religion gave us Osama Bin Laden. And religion gives us people that would see the former as the evil and the latter as the positive character and vice versa. Please, lets leave all that to the philosophers or at least another thread.
Lets talk about how religious parents either caused our PTSD or set us up for later events without a support system beyond their religion, OK?
If a faith in a higher power is helpful to you I would be a very bad person to do anything to shake that support and I do not intend to do anyone harm.
Many Topics posted here are posted with a warning that the contents may be triggering for others. I would also like to warn that the discussion of religion and it's contribution to PTSD may trigger a negative response in some readers and I urge you to stop here. Right here. If a discussion of religious views will upset you when others post a view opposing your own, you should read another thread today.
Thanks, on with my post:
My father and stepmother are people with very little ability to think outside their religious box. Any critical thinking about religion is a sin in their minds and they will literally fall to their knees and pray for forgiveness if an objective thought about religion enters their minds.
Growing up in this environment was very much like growing up with robots for parents. They sat at my table and ate thanksgiving dinner with me every year, they sent out birthday cards to my kids every birthday right up to the day we parted company several years ago. But looking back, I cannot recall any real conversations with them or any real love from them in the entire history of our relationship. They were like robots, totally unavailable for emotional interactions. Everything in their lives was all about devotion to their church, and all decisions were made with a deference to the teachings of the leaders that literally filled shelves on their bookcase.
I feel like I was raised under the direct guidance of a deranged false prophetess from the 1850's that started their cult and created generations of these parent/robots.
If you can relate to this, I would like to hear your story.
If you think you are the victim of what I would call "religious narcissists" for parents, I would like to hear your story.
For those of you preparing a defense of religion in parenting, I would urge you to start a different thread, I don't want to see this become a debate. I already agree with you, I think that most religious parents are fine people that raise their families with love and care and don't create PTSD sufferers. Just like anything else, there are degrees of religious parenting and there are degrees of negative and positive experiences within those families.
Religion gave us Mother Teresa, and religion gave us Osama Bin Laden. And religion gives us people that would see the former as the evil and the latter as the positive character and vice versa. Please, lets leave all that to the philosophers or at least another thread.
Lets talk about how religious parents either caused our PTSD or set us up for later events without a support system beyond their religion, OK?
