How is it, we wonder, that there is a website that talks all the time about religion – one of the three subjects that Miss Manners advises us to stay well away from if we want to have a happy dinner party — and yet the comments that you post on it are overwhelmingly wise, generous, and kind?
In our society, the real damage caused by toxic religion is assumed to be done by extreme fringe groups readily identified as “cults” and we have all heard of the mind controlling indoctrination and abuses of such organizations.
There are few things sadder to a minister than having your child tell you that “church is irrelevant to me.” That was the message my son gave on his eighteenth birthday when he informed me that he would not go back to church again.