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I’ve written elsewhere on the violence resulting from the perversion of religion, including here, here, and here. The topic arises anew every time the religious right chooses to respond to a natural disaster by blaming God for the havoc wreaked. Most recently Michele Bachmann evoked applause from her audience by declaring that God was speaking to us through Hurricane Irene.
I was pleased to come across this post at the Christian Century blog yesterday by Don Scrooby titled Spiritual Abuse. Scrooby offers some helpful insights on variations of this cruelty so often inflicted on innocent victims:
Just this last week I've encountered examples of what I can only describe as spiritual abuse. It saddens one, because what is meant to be life-giving, is turned in to death-like clouds of oppression, and that, by the very people who should know better.
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