• ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialOP
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    7 hours ago

    he was always going to turn out this way. Because he had no reason not to.

    Sometimes people escape their faith, and they shouldn’t be judged before their reveal their final personality.

    • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      no, they don’t. Not unprompted. They have no reason to question it because they’re not forced to. And if they grow up surrounded by people reinforcing it, encouraging it, and no one to question it, that becomes their reality, it’s how they view the world. Normal to them, a monster to everyone else.

      Literally Plato’s cave. It’s what they’re exposed to and what they know. It’s their curated reality, taught by monsters. And when they grow up, they reject new information because it doesn’t align with what they understand as “reality”.

      Every person who ever “escaped” their faith, had some external factor that made them have to reconcile their reality. Question the shadows on the cave. Something outside of their bubble made them think that the world was different from what they were raised on. And then they had to choose to learn more over the more comfortable prospect of staying inside. It’s why cults work, but no one says “say what you will about the leader, but leave the members alone”… it’s the same operating principle.