Spiritual Abuse: some highlights

I spent a few weeks compulsively special-interesting in the topic of spiritual abuse, and am here distilling my findings thus far.  I’m not an expert etc etc, and I’m using “spiritual abuse” to include religious abuse and other related belief system abuse — not to exclude non-religious settings whose practices may well match.

jumble

[familial/religious abuse stuff]

Scrupulosity

Source: Scrupulosity

aaaaaahhhhh, finally a thing…about social justice meeting scrupulosity…i’m so glad

(bonus: the comments are pretty good too!)

more snippets of research

[cw: child abuse in #3, non-explicit]

quick child abuse quote

still assembling my thoughts and reading a ton of things (Independent Fundamental Baptists, ATI homeschooling, religious trauma syndrome) but this one stood out to me:

o_o;

just turned up a whole daviswiki page on a church group i…almost joined…back when i first started college…

terms: spiritual/religious abuse/trauma

*drags hand down face*

christendom, cultural christianity, and conversion

been reading some cool things (mostly jumblr [Jewish tumblr] and beyond inclusion, beyond empowerment). gonna write them in bold, my thoughts in plain

on being arcflux

While I can’t directly respond to the call for more sharing on the subject of sex-favorable asexuality, Talia’s post reminded me that I don’t think I’ve seen many essay-style posts on personal experiences of being arcflux, at least not lately, so that’s what this’ll be.  My goals here: a handy post for linking if I […]

https://theacetheist.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/on-being-arcflux/

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