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> Isn't that odd, that people are gunshy to acknowledge religion as traumatic? Truthfully? I find it very difficult to see religion as anything other than trau
by drewbug01 4y ago
> Isn't that odd, that people are gunshy to acknowledge religion as traumatic?
Truthfully? I find it very difficult to see religion as anything other than traumatic, because what I went through was so bad and different than what most people think of when they think of “religion.” I don’t know if I have any real objectivity in the matter.
I do feel that there is something interesting in that line of thought, however. Perhaps it has to do with the intensely personal nature of religious conviction, and the existential subject matter it deals with?
- tomrod 4y agoA few years out, while I'll never return to religion, I get the draw of community and the lack of really caring about what others define as the worldview for most adherents still in their respective systems. Something of genuine objectivity can be returned to by victims of religious trauma, IMHO, but it takes a lot of processing and a general sense of cynical apathy. All and all, communities in general can create trauma. Its odd to me that many religions tend to be especially good at it. On the other hand, some religions I respect greatly for their desire to improve the lives of their adherents. Reform Judaism and their commitment to tzedakah and tikkun olam, Sikhism, liberal Christianity, and so forth. Religion is a mechanism to transfer culture (though not exclusively so). When it cuts out its feedback mechanisms in its governance structure, it inevitably becomes toxic.