Quoting Quiverfull: Rejecting God After Sexual Abuse is Embracing Your Abuse?

Quoting Quiverfull: Rejecting God After Sexual Abuse is Embracing Your Abuse? March 23, 2017

OliviaBenson (2)by Doug Wilson from Blog and Mablog – On Not Throwing Away What You Do Have

Editor’s note: Victim-blaming in a different way, but just as sick. No, you are not responsible for the sexual abuse that happens to you. It does not define who you are, it is not your fault, it is understandable that you would be upset with a deity that could have stopped it but didn’t. Not wanting to worship that same deity is not you embracing what happened to you!

You came into this world a defenseless girl, and while you were in that defenseless condition, your father began to prey on you. Not only did he molest you, grievously, over the course of years, but I also saw in the court records (which Camille sent me) that there was a good deal of gas lighting going onβ€”trying to make you feel like you were causing it, or somehow deserved it, or that you were the one to blame. Given the evil that had your father in its grip, what was it that had God in its grip? Why did God put you in that home, with no defenses?…..

….In short, if you reject God because He didn’t intervene to stop what happened to you, then what you are actually doing is surrendering to what happened to you. You would have to stop thinking of your father’s behavior as bestial and evil, and simply relegate it to the realm of the foolishβ€”and foolish only because he was caught.

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QUOTING QUIVERFULL is a regular feature of NLQ – we present the actual words of noted Quiverfull leaders, cultural enforcers and those that seek to keep women submitted to men and ask our readers: What do you think? Agree? Disagree? This is the place to state your opinion. Please, let’s keep it respectful – but at the same time, we encourage readers to examine the ideas of Quiverfull and Spiritual Abuse honestly and thoughtfully.

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