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    3 months ago

    I’m absolutely not surprised that so much of this shit is run by (and directed towards) Mormons. “Tough love” is the norm in Mormon families.

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      3 months ago

      The religion of self professed “conservatives” never fails to be pure, distilled cruelty falsely labeled as kindness.

      “Wait wait wait, I get to point at, scream at, and shame an already distressed woman, it costs me nothing to do so, and I get to call it kindness towards the unborn? You sonovabitch, I’m in!”

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        I’m bitterly disillusioned that so many so-called Christians entirely ignore all the things that their Christ said. That is exactly what led me to begin questioning my faith in the first place.

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      A lot of it is run by Mormons not just because of their religion, but because a lot of these places are in the Southwest for two major reasons - they can be EXTREMELY remote and isolated that way (try walking 2 hrs in Arizona or Utah in the middle of the summer, without water, after probably living on starvation-level rations for several weeks), and the laws down there are pretty lax on what constitutes child abuse IIRC (especially Utah). The worst ones are out-of-country - one of my former boyfriends was sent to a gay camp SOMEWHERE in the Caribbean, and a lot of them operate in places that are normally tax shelters for similar reasons (although I know some of the islands have managed to push these places out of business).