Seeing this on the news bothered me so. Kids removed from a polygamist compound. Prior to this, I was pretty neutral about polygamy (probably because I avoided research). From where I stood, if a grown woman did not mind sharing a husband with a few other chicks, then that was on her. Then I saw the news reports. Fourteen.and.fifteen.year.old.girls.having.babies.and.
being.forced.to.marry.old.grown.azzed.nasty.smelly.old.men. Yuk. A sin and a shame. Babies at 14, lost innocence way earlier. I feel that there is a special place in hell for child molesters and these men (and the older women who enable them) are no exception. What kind of religion *cult* can convince a mommy to hand her daughter *baby* over to a nasty azzed old man who has already defiled scores of other women AND children. Being a follower is one thing but at what point does someone stand up and say "uh-uh" and do the right thing?
So now we have 15, 16, and 17 year old moms. It's seems that they have been reprogrammed against formal education and had surrendered to being baby machines.:::::sigh::::: Smaller kids never seeing crayons and not knowing how to act like regular children. A mess. People dancing on the fine line between religion and cult and tipping over to the cult side. What is next for these women and children. Do they ever get to live a *normal* life?
I know many women who were molested as children and two of them were brave enough to tell their stories: they were molested by Church members, sometimes in the Sunday school setting inside the walls of the church. These two women that I love so deeply now struggle with God and all types of organized religion because they feel that the religion allowed their lives to be ruined. It has taken years of therapy. One is on her way to returning to God and the other is still scorchingly angry. And they both got help. Both stated that they made adults aware of what was going on but were deemed as liars. ::::Sigh:::::: What kind of religious zealots would believe some church folks over their own child?
Mr Saditty and I have walked out of SEVERAL churches, never to return once the Pastor started talking crazy, never to return. More people need to practice that. My question is this: How far would we go to belong to something? At what point do we stop standing up for ourselves and our children? How often can we turn our heads the other way in order to remain among "the saved"? Where do we draw the line between religions and cults?