Rated “R” for Religion
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7 min readSep 17, 2020
This happens all the time:
A friend or new co-worker casually mentions an Old Testament reference, and suddenly we realize a bond: religious trauma. We’re exchanging stories of the nightmare-feeding stories we heard as young children:
- Vivid depictions of blood sacrifice
- Eternal damnation in hell, with lakes of fire illustrated in our Bibles for Children