Anonymous ask:
i was raped when i was 6, and when i've tried to talk to my mom or sister about it (both christian) both have gone to the whole "Jesus can heal you!" thing. when i try to tell them to not bring up religion they get offended. its amazing how manipluative christians can be, trying to get someone else to join their faith while they're in a vunrable time
Really sorry to hear this, both what happened to you and the lack of help and compassion you received. You mentioned in a separate message to me that you’re “fine, i'm gonna be fine.” I like your confidence and your resoluteness, but I also hope that if you find that you do need help, you get the right people with the right priorities.
It never stops being thoroughly disappointing, yet completely unsurprising, to hear stories like this. Sounds like what you needed most was to have them listen to you, and let you tell them what you need. But it seems they couldn’t even do that.
And it’s a totally gross concept from end to end. If “Jesus can heal you” then Jesus had the power to stop it in the first place, but didn’t. Some will tell you that god/Jesus makes it happen to “bring you closer to him,” never noticing how psychopathic this notion is. Others will even tell you that they pray for bad things to happen to people to make them “find god” in their loss, despair or panic, and feel completely righteous and not at all serial-killer deranged. That prayer doesn’t work, those thoughts are going nowhere outside their heads and will have no effect is irrelevant.
This certainly demonstrates religious priorities, where “making the sale” is more important than the wellbeing of another human life. They’re a servant to their god, first and foremost, just itching to exploit a weakness to bolster its army, as you observed. And a fellow human being as a distant second.
You deserve better.