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3. There may develop a strong cognitive dissonance in those raised this way
Sat May 25, 2019, 09:36 AM
May 2019

but no longer wrapped in it and the intolerance so tightly that can result in an abusive practice of community shunning and/or familial estrangement being perpetrated on those portrayed by the fundamentalist believer(s) as rebellious "heathen." Disengaging from those that would practice that form of abuse is this long, slow, and painful process of introspection about the nature of control, shame, and guilt that can leave those demonized by their abusers within their communities or individually with serious ongoing emotional damage.

https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Shunning

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