• SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      I am unclear as to why so many grown adults are willing to tolerate and even defend literal death cults.

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        Childhood indoctrination. In the US it probably begins before Sunday school at home with child-safe bible-story books, highly illustrated.

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          That was the case for my brothers and I. I remember an illustrated children’s bible, and also a book that would play a number of different songs if you pressed the buttons. My favorites were “We are climbing Jacob’s ladder” and “I come to the garden alone”.

          I was abused by southern baptists. I will never be okay.

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        Because I want to sacrifice priests to Odin and rip the copper from the walls of the profligate churches…

        I guess I’m more of a crackhead murder cultist than anything else… Does the term death cult apply to me?