I have lived with a Fundamentalist Christian family for 2 and half years, and studied and observed their beliefs and behavior. They attend to a First Baptist Church, participate very actively in all their meetings and even support and belong to a Baptist association in the Twin Cities. They pay 506 dollars every month to their church, an amount that any poor family may as well welcome very much. They support the Republican Party, and not because they do know about politics, but because they believe that in order to be consistent with their Biblicism they must be very conservative. I remember one discussion where the father of this family explained to me how a great decision the US took when a big amount of Japanese in Hiroshima were exterminated, and he explicitly said that ‘’there is nothing anti-Christian with dropping an atomic bomb.” I have heard and seen, during two and half years, horrible things to my taste, things that I just can’t fathom to understand why here what is called a ‘’free country,’’ it actually means ‘’free from education.’’ What an oddly state of educative perversion must a society hold in order to allow what I am about to relate.
I am going to tell a couple of details, along with a story, true story, where things became so utterly bizarre for my savour that I had to contact the police department and the Minnesota Children’s Right Council, Prevent Child Abuse of Minnesota, and some political section I don’t want to remember the name now… The story begins one day when the 16 year old daughter came back from her non-accredited Christian school talking to her parents about her friend. According to their conversation, this girl had been difficult with her parents, and they at some point, realized their child had been possessed by demons, for which, had decided to send her to a fundamentalist boarding school in Indiana. I personally know this girl and I can say she has mental problems, particularly depression and possibly schizoid personality. I still wonder if she ever had a mental breakdown, or perchance, a schizophrenic onset. What I do know for sure is her parents never took her to a medical doctor to be evaluated, and that she was taken by them and their whole church as simply ‘’daemonic.’’ Yes, this still happens in free America 2010.
I contacted the police, I told my story and they gave it to their social services section which never called me back. I sent emails and a request to various associations in Minnesota to no avail. One day, I got an email from a very important and political person in this State, who told me that there is nothing that can be done. He said that in this country parents have the right to choose what they consider best for their children. That was the end of my pursuit. I got tears in my eyes and an ache in my chest. I thought the Salem processes to witches were gone, but I lived to see I was mistaken.
When I go to the doctor, sometimes they ask me if is there anything they shouldn’t apply or do to me due to my religious beliefs. I always say there isn’t anything. Yet, there are people in this country who decide that a blood transfusion is not pertinent according to their beliefs, and they, obviously, consider that that is ‘’the best’’ for their children. A girl is sick, mentally uneven, and her church and her parents consider that she is ‘’evil’’ and has been ‘’possessed’’ by demons, and indeed, instead of being sent to a competent medical doctor she is sent to a reformatory school for troubled fundamentalist Christians, and indeed again, this is ‘’the best’’ her parents consider it is for her. What a stage of complete brutality and indecency walks amongst us!
So, I reckon I live in a ‘’free’’ country where brainwashing children in non-accredited schools, submitting them to bizarre ceremonies and denying the access to medical care just for the sake of a inhumane religious creed seems to be totally okay. Let me put it this way, to be fair with everyone, we complain and see it as atrocious when some cultures practice clitectomy or female circumcision, and I believe this practice is not only brutal but also monstrous. We believe that raping a child is awful and it should be punishable, and I do believe so as well. Now then, how do those examples differ from denying to a child proper medical treatment? I say treatment not care. How is it any different the physical rape from the mental rape? There are hundreds, thousands of persons who have suffered the pangs of depression and anxiety because they were literally brainwashed when a child, taken into a religious creed they didn’t choose but were born in it. Some of them have pretty peculiar stories to tell, some others can’t talk because they decided to put an end to their life.
A couple of months ago I learnt, one teenager from this Baptist Church had just committed suicide, and still they have time to believe the poor lad is now in Hell because he offended God. This teenager had depression and personality problems, I have an intuition and I believe personally he was homosexual; he was sent away to one of their non-accredited colleges. They just got news not long ago he had decided to kill himself. I take it as granted, his parents also did what they always thought was ‘’the best’’ for him.
Let it be heard by those with ears…
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