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The spiritual and religious abuse of my fundamentalist Evangelical belief upheld certainty as the highest law.
The authoritarian aspect of Evangelicalism is what is especially problematic, as it communicates that all that is good, sacred, or correct is external to you and everything internal is considered bad.
Evangelicalism requires followers to reject the potential value of other faith systems and takes their own scripture as the only true, literal, inspired word of the Divine—resulting in an extreme exclusivity. It is also exudes the language of judgement as it relates to the existence of heaven and hell which results in many people living and moving through the world with a deep sense of fear and anxiety held inside their bodies.
in creating passive, dependent, and emotionally unbalanced human beings who are more easily manipulated and controlled.
When the body freezes rather than fights or flees, it is not able to release the internal energy that builds up within it during the moment the internal alarm system sounds and the ANS is activated.
Our brains developed in a state of restriction, hesitation, and lack rather than a state of permission, wholeness, and freedom. This is why any misstep threatens identity,
Pleasure becomes dangerous, pain becomes discipline, and discipline masquerades as love.
People raised under Evangelical doctrines are forced to wage war with their flesh, and their personalities, in order to be considered holy.
Authoritarian systems train people to believe that their anger is immoral rather than transformative.
Within fundamentalism, humans are trained towards passivity and codependence because of the emphasis put upon external guidance and
