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When Religious Upbringing Becomes Abuse
I value inclusiveness and tolerance, but I’m increasingly worried about the horrible things we can end up enabling in their name. Religion, along with pseudoscience and conspiracy madness, can get…
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Teaching Hell and Calling It Love
Most adults understand why you wouldn’t threaten a child with torture. But add ‘after you die’ and, suddenly, we’re discussing religious education. The child, meanwhile, has been given something terrifying…
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Threatening Children With Divine Separation
Humans are intensely social animals. Our dependence on one another is part of our biology, and separation from someone we are attached to can produce agonizing distress. In affective science,…
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Judgment Day Starts in Childhood
Imagine subjecting a child to the narrative of a final cosmic reckoning; an ultimate eschatological trial in which every hidden thought and transient impulse will be brought before an omniscient…