bob young wrote:
>
> Epi-Sode wrote:
>
>> As a child between the ages of 7 and 10, I was exposed to two teachers
>> who were religious delinquents. They both acted as if they believed in
>> the literal word of the Bible, and they willfully planted demons inside
>> my head. In doing so, they raped my mind and tortured my soul. I was
the
>> victim of child abuse. It took me 40 years to cast out those demons and
>> to heal myself.
>>
>> To put this into some sort of perspective, I was the victim of
>> homo***ual rape by my doctor in my teenage years. That experience pales
>> into total insignificance when compared with the horrors done to me by
>> the two religious delinquent teachers.
>>
>> Children between the ages of 7 and 10 have no defence against religious
>> delinquent teachers. As a mature adult, I can hit their arguments for
six.
>>
>> I see the same child abuse going on today. I see the same filth being
>> peddled by some of the contributors to various newsgroups. It concerns
>> me that such child abuse is still being perpetrated. I have also seen
>> its dreadful effects on some of the children that I now meet.
>>
>> So ...
>>
>> (1) If you have also been such a victim, would you like to share your
>> experiences?
>
> Luckily I can not provide anything
This seems to a common response (from information not posted on this
newsgroup), for which (1) I am glad and (2) perhaps the baleful hand of
the religious delinquents is less than that which I had supposed, for
which "Thank the Lord" (and you can see my tongue firmly in my cheek for
that last one!)
>
>>
>> (2) What are your thoughts on can be done to prevent such acts of evil
>> happening in the future?
>
> Very little. Superstitious beliefs are with mankind for eternity so all
we
> can do is expose the perpetrators whenever we can. Educate and slowly
over
> time, perhaps if we are lucky, the number of people who cannot exist
without
> pandering and taking advantage of primitive belief systems will
gradually
> become less.
>
> "Bush said we're going after white-collar criminals and I'm thinking
'Gee I
> wish the Catholic church would do that.'" [David Letterman]
>
> Bob
> Humanist Brit.
>
>
Perhaps the answer is by more education. I have noted with some faint
hope that some Intelligent Designer proponents were ejected from a
school board in the USA not so long ago.
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