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Oct 12, 2012, 04:12 PM
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Member Since: Apr 2009
Location: I live with myself. Because that is all I can depend on. Everthing around me changes.
Posts: 3,439
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Originally Posted by shortandcute
I'm a Christian, but personally, I prefer a more secular approach. I used to try to stick to more church based type counseling, and none of it ever helped. A lot of it was pretty much trying to indoctrinate me with their personal beliefs about God, or telling me to "rebuke" my illness! One Christian counseler I used to go to would tell me to sit with my eyes closed and keep telling myself that I never went through the things that I did. It was always about me not reading the right scriptures at the rite time, me not praying enough or correctly, not going to the right church or not going enough, not giving enough money to the church, I wasn't being submissive enough to my abusive husband, that all my problems would go away if I forgave him for beating the crap out of me, etc. It was never about actually helping me.
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I tell myself all the time that it's not Christians I am scared of, it's the way many Christian use their religion to hurt or subvert women and other ppl not in power.
Carol
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