Reply #6: I think the only realistic plan is education [View All]

[idgiehkt]

with a strong focus on the sciences. Also...continuing to support womens' causes like feminism, trying to get childhood recognized as the most important stage of a person's life emotionally and helping people deal with their childhood traumas (I don't think it's any coincidence that people in extremely strict religions either have been abused or abuse their own children or both) and stop telling them to get over it. Protect children from sex offenders and develop a program for rehabilitation of sex offenders.

Although there are kinds of xtianity that are new-agey and soft compared to fundamentalism, I think that these destructive religions all appeal to people who have had their psyches destroyed by childhood cruelty and abuse and they can't access the part of their brain that deals with thinking for themselves without having to relive some abominable things, so they just don't; instead, they look for outside sources to replace their critical thinking aparatus like churches and cults (may be redundant).