In reading what I wrote just now, I see I've oversimplified a lot. If you or anyone have questions about anythng, please feel free.

Anarchis, in terms of the churches... that everyone of them, every member insist, that they bravely look at their priesthoods... and challenge any teachings that objectifies, makes submissive, woman and children... since that's the story which is deep within Abrahamic religions. They are property in ancient economies taken into a modern day context, whether obviously tribal, as in the Muslim communities far away that we judge, or the wife and kids humbly following dad into church and bowing to the big patriarch in the sky... all of which has resulted in women not having the same rights and economic power as men, no matter how modern the country.

As far as victims becoming empowered survivors... looking back at the fears I had when I finally left home... that's the toughest, because I had no idea how to break through that conditioned, brainwashing so to speak, fear of never telling anyone. So since this is such a widespread problem all over the world, that every nation establish an easy and empathetic means for children and adult survivors to get help and justice, to have instant access to everything that can help heal... and require religions to be taxed to pay for that. To establish laws that prevent abuse even in terms of what's being indoctrinated, no matter how well justified. That would be based on the scientific evidence of the brain's vulnerabilities as the neurosynaptic architecture becomes wired in childhood. We have laws that prevent poisons in our foods that can damage the body, based on scientific evidence and its cost to society. Why allow this poison to propagate and damage children's brains, the next generation’s decision makers... from repetitive sermons etc. which demand submission to some imaginary alpha male in the sky, which sexual predators see as a weakness to be exploited, and economically exploited in our socioeconomies, top-down, no different than lions going after the weakest prey in a flock. The scientific evidence is there, and its impacts upon society is legion.

I understand fully how intensely difficult this would be to even consider in countries that have the mantric message, "In God we trust," repeated everywhere and from all media, including a dollar bill, where again it’s economic. But it is pure poison to the brain. And that seems like a hopeless proposition... and still, that anthropogenic *meteor* is closing in. Can we really become rational enough to problem solve that in time? it is so related to the brain damage of childhood, which most don't see as brain damage, unless a rape is discovered. I'm probably not making sense, going all over the place. But that's the nature of a complex system. It's not linear, but deeply interactive into the macrosystem of human civilization. To me it is simple to analyze, but difficult to express due to how the abuses I experienced is very inhibitive. It's emotionally entangled.

Another important thing to understand about all this, which I've expressed for years in various ways, is that all this should work as a sort of bellwether for society, or more accurately, the canary birds coal miners took with them to expose toxic gas. All this with pedophile predators in religions should signal a warning about how toxic religion can be, and take appropriate, life-saving action.

Well put, and thank you for evoking some healthy thinking

Another important thing to understand about all this, which I've expressed for years in various ways, is that all this should work as a sort of bellwether for society, or more accurately, the canary birds coal miners took with them to expose toxic gas. All this with pedophile predators in religions should signal a warning about how toxic religion can be, and take appropriate, life-saving action. There is enough evidence in interdisciplinary sciences to that effect, empirically in neuroscience… and since our planet and civilization is under threat by a history of human behavioral patterns anchored in our beliefs, and political/socioeconomic systems, take appropriate action as a matter of securing public health
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Did you ever see this movie, Stephanie
video embed is messingt with me. I'll try again later so you can see ihe from within here.

It's called "Spotlight," and feels a bit like "All the President's Men," with Robert Redford. Spotlight is based on the true story of a group of journalists who ran a special investigative section of the Bostoin Globe, called, Spotlightt. And it's the story of uncovering a predatror priest conspiracy in the Boston Archdiocese.


https://youtu.be/56jw6tasomc

Stephanie, It's a bit hard to follow and comment as in threads here. I wrote this comment a few days ago in response to your last writing, but just saw that it was technically a response to myself, which means you didn't get a notification. So here it is again.

>>I can't fix it all but I will not be silent or stand by. I will not give it tacit approval with my apathy. When I write fiction, I'm cognizant about the dangers of this mindset and make conscious decisions to parts of this culture as the monstrous behavior it is. I will do all I can to ensure I am not a part of the problem. I'm grieved by how many women perpetuate rape culture and I don't want to do that.<<

Wow, right on! More power to you! You are one hell of a good writer.

Wish the thread commentary boxes would stay a reasonable size--- so I'll answer above your last comment, Stephanie.

I'm so sorry your uncle did that. Horrible and criminal!

Wow, what a dad you had, and in the Mormon faith, no less.

I learned long ago that you can't really subjectively compare one another's abuse histories. It's so relative. How do I compare what my sister and I endured with what child Holocaust survivors endured?

The Mormon faith requires parents to nurture their children according to the will of the Church. Subconsciously and unconsciously, that hugely impacts the children's brain development, especially if a girl within a patriarchy, and in a way that a group of sciences could easily analyze as abuse, especially if functional MRI can look at stimulus-response circuitry. Nurture without abuse, in my opinion, requires parents to raise their children with the facts of life in the world as it is (which obviously your dad did well, kind of going against his faith), give them the tools, inspiration, socialization and education that reinforces that... so they can confidently go into the adult world free and empowered for a lifetime of continuously bettering themselves (neuroplasticity), in relation to a fast changing world that desperately needs as many social minds to problem and thrive. Religion is a huge inhibitor of that.

You know, to hear you talk about your dad that way made my day. Made me so happy.