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Debra Doyle

should be subjected to attempts at making us feel guilty of emotional abuse for doing so.

I didn't say that you or anyone else on this list was guilty of emotional abuse. I just asked people in general to be understanding of other people who might not be as emotionally cool in discussion as themselves.

Of course nobody is forced to participate. But people will participate in different ways, and there seemed to be an intolerance of all but a particular, what I might characterise as urbane or ironical, mode of participation.

There's nothing wrong with being urbane, but it made me feel sad to see the condemnation of those who were not able to be so.

This is the type of theology that poisoned and hurt my innocent childhood. For me there was no single awakening, but only a gradual realisation that Christianity was not true, and that I was safe from the god that it portrayed. Those of you who have not had this experience can talk in urbane and light hearted terms about it, but I think you should be more understanding of the strong emotional counter-reaction experienced by those who can't find such distanced amusement in the revisiting of childhood abuse.

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