The super religious tend to be ok with exploiting young girls… many religions have very old views of women’s place in society and basically are ok with women bearing children soon after puberty.
I want to say, America, both south and north, seems especially fucked on that aspect. My Brazilian husband grew up in a cult where it ended up being that the pastor was raping his own teenage daughter.
I grew up in Europe where Christianity is mainly cultural. As in major holidays are important but no one would ever tell you you’d burn in hell because X or Y. In the US the evangelists seem actually batshit crazy a lot of the time, there seems to be a lot of indoctrination and a lot of internalised hate and shame taught ?
Makes me sad that this is what people see/experience as religion because it looks much more like evil than good for me, while spirituality is so important for the mind and soul.
Americans are the descendants of religious nutters that Europe didn't want because they were religious nutters. So it makes sense that some religious practices in the US would be more intense than is seen in Europe.
religiously persecuted, you mean. Because they wanted their religious beliefs to become the legal law of the land. So we have sent over 200 years teaching kids that their ancestors were persecuted (without going over what that persecution was). We basically taught "claim victumhood" and now the fucking nutters are trying to make religion law again.
After seeing the "religious persecution" that the modern evangelical Christians in the US cry about (ie. "Don't be a dick" and "no, we all don't want to be subject to your bullshit" ) I'm having serious doubts about that persecution claim.
In fact, does anyone remember, from history class, what that persecution was? I don't recall examples. I'm probably wrong though.
What the persecution was, was literally not taught in US history class. Just that they were religiously persecuted.
The persecution was in fact that the country governments wouldn't make their religious laws country laws. They were angry that they couldn't force their way of life on others. So they came to america, and genocided the indigenous people.
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u/woolcoat 1d ago
The super religious tend to be ok with exploiting young girls… many religions have very old views of women’s place in society and basically are ok with women bearing children soon after puberty.