The Child Cult

      Table of Contents Women are often victims of religion, young girls are groomed to be submissive, to not go to school, to let her husband take care of her and not work for her own money, and to have an excessive number of children to the point that her body is depleted.  This is a terrible life for a woman and if this is what your religious parents are preparing you for then you deserve better and should resist this with all your might.  As a girl, you have every right to be headstrong and independent. Do your parents allow your brothers to do anything they want but they punish you for even the slightest infraction?  Are you made to do the housecleaning and chores while your brothers don't have to do these kinds of things?  Are you forced to wear head-coverings or other religious garments meant to represent woman's submission?  Do you get lower-quality gifts and less food to show you are less valued?  This is not fair and your religious ...

    Table of Contents Children raised in religious households often have to deal with talk of demons.  But sometimes these things can just go too far.  Do your parents make bizarre claims, like your toys can come to life and hurt you, that cartoons on TV can lead to demonic possession, that paintings on walls come alive to torment people?  This is taking demonic possession beyond the pale and it warping children's sense of reality.  Do your parents claim to suffer demonic attacks because you are not following their religion properly and have therefore allowed satan to enter the house?  Do your parents do strange and manipulative things like pretend they can no longer sleep in their room because it is inhabited by evil entities which you are responsible for bringing into the home and now they must sleep in a communal area to avoid night spiritual terror attacks?  Do your parents not allow you to have gifts from people because there could be satanic...

    Table of Contents Some children are able to handle religious abuse, sometimes it is more mild than others, but if you are becoming suicidal then you need to get out, it is not good for children to remain suicidal throughout their whole childhood, it's bad for your brain even and might become a pattern in life. The plan to escape your religious parents and go into state care is really only for children who are in an insufferable condition.  Being raised by the state is not great and you are going to lose a lot.  If you are following your monotheistic parents' religion, they can be very nice to you.  If you live at home and your parents have any sort of money, you will have your own room, your own car, will be able to select the clothes you buy, have access to your choice of cosmetics and beauty products, be able to ask for specific foods, and be able to be taken out to special places often.  None of this may be true if you are raised in state care. ...

Table of Contents Highly religious communities are simply known to be hotbeds of organized child rape and pedophilia.  As a former Jehovah's Witness, I was raised in a cult that is widely recognized as having a problem with pseudo-institutionalized pedophilia. Jehovah's Witnesses claim that child rape is to be reported to authorities, but in practice this rarely ever happens.  Internally and off the record, Jehovah's Witnesses are almost commanded to deal with cases of child rape internally within the organization. When child rapes are dealt with internally, sometimes two witnesses are required for an inquiry to be launched. The idea that there would be two innocent witnesses to a child rape is almost impossible and so most internal investigations go nowhere. However, the children who brought forward the allegation are often harassed for tarnishing an adult's reputation without evidence and if they persist in their accusation they are further ostracized and shunned.  I ...

  Table of Contents   Do your parents ever tell you you are going to hell or won't be saved because you are not following their religion perfectly?  Until recently, most people believed that parents had the right to torment their children with accusations they would burn alive forever unless they believed all the irrational and bigoted hateful stuff they spew.  Girls who do not want to be submissive go to hell, LGBTQs go to hell, atheists go to hell, pagans go to hell, and anyone who is not their specific religion goes to hell.  Monotheist parents feel they have the right to threaten their children with hell for anything and everything, even the slightest questioning of their nonsense makes them erupt in anger and begin screaming you are going to Hades. Just because you are gay, a headstrong girl, pagan, or atheist does not give your parents the right to say you will burn forever.  This is very manipulative, this is your parent's last resort to frighten you...

  Table of Contents   Do your parents mock or deride you because you believe that the earth is round, or that space is a real place and not a painted ceiling above us, or that the planet is more than 6,000 years old? Do your parents force you to proclaim that you believe in Noah's flood and the Ark, or any other wild mystical stories from the Bible, Talmud, Quran, or Vedas? Are you forced to read material that makes no sense logically and when you question them you are punished or intimidated?  Are you made to feel intellectually or spiritually inferior for believing in things like viruses or vaccines? Are you being told psychiatry is sorcery? If you are being made to feel ashamed for believing in established facts and science then you are being abused and this needs to stop.  Religious parents often hold absurd and dangerous ideas about the world around them, things that have been proven to be wrong.  Let's say that your parents told you you were not allowed to...

  Table of Contents   Are you being raised in an anti-medical cult?  Are you an Eddy's Christian Scientist? Involved in a Carol Balizet Cult? Inside a derivative of Herbert Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God?  Do your parents refuse to give you antibiotics when you are deliriously ill and refuse to ever take you to the doctor, no matter how infected you are? Do you have permanent damage from lack of medical care? And even if you are not, you should still care and be supportive of these children.   This project is for all children suffering from religious abuse at home, but starting out on the most extreme cases can help you gain conviction that parents don't have freedom of religion over their children, and when they do, it can even be deadly.  Thousands of children have died in anti-medical cults where children were left to die excruciating deaths from preventable diseases and even things as simple as broken bones.  Did you know that today in th...

  Table of Contents Are you being spiritually abused at home?  Are you being forced to attend religious services that are anti-atheist, anti-pagan, anti-LGBTQ or anti-female and you identify with one of these groups or sympathize with them?  Do you find this to be unethical? Are you being banned from practicing your own polytheistic faith or focusing on rational philosophy?  Are you being told you are going to hell, are possessed by evil spirits, or are somehow ethically unfit? Then you are being abused and as an atheist, pagan, or LGBTQ teen, you need to get out.  Getting out of a cult home is very hard, still today most people believe that parents have the right to raise their children in whatever religion they want, even if the child resists and expresses the teachings are giving them harm. Children and teenagers usually have no other place to go outside of home than school.  At school, you are under the care of the state and under their protection....

Table of Contents   Are you being raised in an abusive religious household?  Here are some suggestions I wish had been made to me: 1. Stop loving your parents.  Your parents are abusive evil people who are bigots and hypocrites and anti-science and have no good intentions for the world or you, they want everything to be cruel and abusive like they are, and they want to destroy you for not being like them.  Parents expect love no matter what but they almost never love their children for who they are, if you don't come out the way they want you to come out, they will abandon you as an adult.  2. Prepare to come out.  Eventually, if you want freedom, you will have to cause disturbances in your home by stating your opinions. However, you should first go to school officials and tell them you will be experiencing abuse at the hands of your parents for your convictions. You need to find adults who understand and side with you, you need people outside of your home ...

Table of Contents   My name is Vincent Bruno and this is my blog "The Child Cult".  This is a project to help atheist, pagan, and LGBTQ kids and teens to escape their abusive religious households.  I am very angry that I had to be raised in the religious manner I was raised as it was highly abusive.  At the time of my abuse, it would not have been considered normal to take a child out of a household where the abuse was religious, spiritual, or ideological... the idea that the child had any say in how they were being indoctrinated was not commonly held.  This is now changing but we must swiftly accelerate it.  Here is a brief of my story.  I was raised a Jehovah's Witness.  As a child, I wanted to be a scientist, a profession not considered wholesome for a Jehovah's Witness who should not be spending their time on intense secular and material pursuits but instead should be focusing on converting other people into Jehovah's organization. Plus, scien...