Religious trauma is something that many people in this country are walking around with, without having a label for it. Compounded by the fact that religion is often dismissed in liberal, academic, queer, secular, and, depending on the geography, urban communities as foolish, as something only Hillbilly Elegy–type uneducated rural poor people would be ignorant enough to believe in, there is a silencing of the grief before it can be addressed. In my experience, what drives belief is often not ignorance, but hope.
