At What Point Is Faith Really Child Abuse?

April 7, 2013 By 15 Comments
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by Calulu Trigger Warning! Yesterday I saw a very disturbing video that was filmed last weekend, on Easter Day, in front of a United Methodist Church in North Carolina. The church is letting from it’s Easter services while a young boy stands with a sign that reads like something out of Westboro Baptist and yells [...]

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Quoting Quiverfull: Evil School Boards?

April 5, 2013 By 14 Comments
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by Robert Simonds from Citizens for Excellence in Education three different quotes on education and politics. “As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families.”

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Daughter of the Patriarchy, epilogue: What does leaving fundamentalism look like?

April 4, 2013 By 5 Comments
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by Sierra Occasionally, I get asked whether or not I ever actually left my old fundamentalist church. My story on No Longer Quivering followed my journey up to the first year of college. I’ve wrestled with how to explain what happened in a proper narrative form, because the circumstances

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Connecting Homeschooling and Religious Abuse

April 3, 2013 By 10 Comments
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by Becoming Worldly I was asked a very good question by a homeschooler recently and figured I’d answer it here as well, expanding on it a little bit. The essence of that question (as I understood it) was “Why are you including homeschooling in your discussion of religious abuse?

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Quoting Quiverfull: State Schooling Dirtier?

April 2, 2013 By 2 Comments
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by Colin Campbell in Meat For Men – March 28, 2013 “Parents who homeschool have considered what’s in the box of public education and they dare to be different. State schooling conforms to humanistic society and the box is getting dirtier by the day.”

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