The inevitable result of theocracy

Authoritarianism breeds silence in response to horror, and does so intentionally. It's only when its stranglehold is released that the truth comes out. How many similar stories can be told in churches, mosques and synagogues today, but are hiding behind a wall of fear?

We must evolve past all of this. We have to outgrow these twisted control paradigms and find new ways to make our lives meaningful. The damage done by these abusers effects not just their victims but the world at large in very real and tangible ways. And it's all the worse when the abusers are people in positions of trust, people who have the absolute gall to dictate morality to the rest of us.

More in the NY Times, if you can stomach it.

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