Sharlynn

“Children raised in authoritarian religions often enter adulthood feeling ‘starved for love’ because their parents consistently prioritized obedience and compliance over nurture and connection.”
― Brian Recker, Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love

“A low view of ourselves made us vulnerable. We were taught to despise ourselves, so we did not learn to listen to ourselves. Believing ourselves to be untrustworthy, we outsourced our spiritual lives to patriarchal authorities. They told us to "trust the Bible" instead of our intuition, and we took their word for what the Bible meant - even though there is no single objectively correct interpretation of what the Bible meant, and our religious leaders often had harmful theological agenda, such as the exclusion of queer people and the subordination of women.”
― Brian Recker, Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love