Power of Abuse


There are many who will write reams of words of outrage and faux shock and pearl clutching and CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY DID <insert distraction issue> over the next weeks, months, and years.

And while today is a dark and depressing day for many, there is one group of people absolutely ecstatic that their dreams of apocalypse are one step closer to fruition:

The Fucking Evangelicals™

Why would The Fucking Evangelicals™ be happy and pleased with electing an Abusive psychopath who will surround himself with other Abusive psychopaths and launch 4 years of psychopathic Abuse directed at every vulnerable person and population in this country and around the world?

Because Fucking Evangelicals™ practice and worship at the throne of Abuse.

They are psychologically primed to be Abused AND PRAY FOR MORE.

The entire family of Abrahamic faiths all celebrate Abuse. Cheer it on. Accept it. Insist that Abuse is what is needed and if you fall short of perfection you must be Abused even more. Spare the rod and spoil the child, eh?

The whole structure of that faith system is about living in an Abusive world with Abusive governments and Abusive bosses and Abusive slave owners and to just meekly and cheerfully accept this Abuse because in the afterlife everyone gets a mansion, right?

It’s why the system supports people who believe children should be beaten and whipped and spanked.

“Dare to Discipline” is a concept that makes sense to people who have been raised in Abusive systems and have normalized that Abuse.

“I got spanked and I turned out fine!” says the guy with the emotional support truck with the “Don’t Tread on Me Flag” and MAGA stickers.

But did he? Did that guy turn out fine? Are his ideas of the world fine? Or does he believe everyone should suffer the same Abuse he did?

What are the politics of someone who grows up in constant Abuse?
Politics of compassion and understanding?
Or… Abusive political concepts?

I see a lot of MAGAssholes gleefully waiting for Trump to exact revenge on all their perceived enemies. Does that sound like:

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Are we entering an era of compassionate care of the suffering huddled masses?

Or did a bunch of christian voters– who are pathologically and intentionally and gleefully illiterate because of homeschooling and information bubbles of illiteracy– just vote for someone who will Abuse the Least of These?

I was at an event last night and when someone nearby heard I had been in politics they asked, like so many oblivious liberals and progressives do, “Why do christians vote for that man?”

“Because they want the world to end!” I said without a hint of irony or joking.

“….” She looked at me incredulously unable to speak.

“That’s… that’s absurd…” she stammered.

And this is where folks on the left really do not understand what a lifetime of Abuse does to groups of people who have been taught to embrace and thank god for the Abuse they suffer:



Trials and Temptations

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,

3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

James 1:2-4

Consider it PURE JOY when someone Abuses you and causes you to suffer. Because this is god testing you and in that testing you will be made more complete.

This is the kind of crap that was shoved down my throat when I trying to get a handle on mental illness. Mental illness that was largely brought into my life as a result OF ALL THE ABUSE I WAS EXPERIENCING.

This is the whole system.

You’re being Abused?

PRAISE JESUS!!!

This is how you get slaves to not revolt.

You tell them to rejoice in their suffering because God has a mansion for them in heaven because THEY BELIEVED *waves magic wand*.

This is how you get people to accept the Abuse they suffer at work.

How many weeks in church the theme would be about being a cheerful laborer. About how grinding and showing up again and again would earn you rewards in heaven and how this would turn you into a far better person.

DO FUCKING EVANGELICALS™ SEEM LIKE GOOD PEOPLE?

Asking for 8 billion friends.

Does their Abusive system churn out quality humans?

You’ll forgive me for being underwhelmed at the results of all this personal growth the Holy Spirit has worked in these people..

DO FUCKING EVANGELICALS™ prevent the Abuse of others?

Or is their system one that absolutely supports grotesque Abuse of power and upholds the status quo?

It’s not a coincidence that churchgoers vote conservative.

Because their system is not liberal or liberating. It is a system that believes we are in chains and we have to suck it up joyfully because our rest will occur when we die and are scooped up to heaven and all those non-believing libruls and commies will go to hell to suffer… *checks notes*… Abuse.

Notice how children raised with Abusive parents end up in Abusive marriages?

Why is that?

What is that phenomenon?

The normalizing of Abuse is what’s at work here and it’s what the MAGA Oligarchs are exploiting in the Fucking Evangelicals™. Because these folk were raised in Abuse. They were drenched in it. Taught that Abuse is how the world works. When they made mistakes as kids… they were Abused.

When they cried out about that Abuse… they were gaslit by their churches and communities that this Abuse would make them better and stronger.

And so if there’s any group of people primed to be okay with Abuse, to embrace it as a political philosophy, to turn a blind eye and bend the knee to the most Abusive cunts in the history of the world… it is Fucking Evangelicals™.

Because their entire system celebrates and upholds systems of Abuse and says “It’s a Fallen World!!!” And when they say that they are saying they do not believe anything can possibly get better.

Because Satan and his demons own The World™ and they are the ones preventing anything good from ever happening. And therefor there’s no point in worrying about Climate Change or Homelessness or Hoarding of Wealth… that’s just how it is.

And nothing can or will get better until Jesus returns on clouds of cotton candy and rainbows.

And they mean this shit.

Their worldview is incentivized to make everything actively worse.

World Ends = Jesus Returns

So why would they want to make anything better?

They literally don’t believe anything CAN get better.

Which… that’s how someone thinks when they’ve been in an Abusive relationship their entire lives. Let’s look at some symptoms of people who have suffered Narcissist Abuse.

How many of you have had friends trapped in Abusive relationships and they are so beat down ideologically and psychologically that they literally don’t believe anything CAN get better?

Sometimes those people end up thinking it would just be better to end it all.

And isn’t that the same thing?

If people want the world to just end?

Isn’t that…. suicidal?

To vote for someone who intentionally botched a pandemic 4 years ago and the very first thing he did today was sign an order removing us from the World Health Organization… while there’s another pandemic on the horizon?

That’s suicidal as fuck.

And christians are cheering this shit on!

WHY?

Because these people are victims of Abuse.

So they are susceptible to and have normalized:

Gaslighting
Emotional Manipulation
Isolation
Destroyed Self Esteem (we’re all wretched sinners)
Love Bombing (this is what church does best)

And people who do this to Fucking Evangelicals™ are viewed positively and adored and defended.

Because this what people do when they’ve been Abused their whole lives.

They believe Abuse is Good.

They have a whole book that tells them to react joyfully to Abuse.

So while many of the Left of the political spectrum– who in my experience tend to be empathetic and educated– can’t fathom why Fucking Evangelicals™ would hitch their lives to someone who is clearly an Abuser

They see that Abuse as one step closer to The World Suiciding itself which means their Savior can return.

PRAISE JESUS!!!

And these people don’t give a fuck about you or me.

And I don’t mean the oligarchs.

I mean the Fucking Evangelicals™.

They do not care one bit about any of us who aren’t in their Abuse cult.

If we don’t believe in their bullshit and go to their churches and sing their songs about blood washing their inequities away… well then they’re gonna use the government to…

Abuse us.

Because that’s what good Christians

who have been Abused

their entire lives

do.

UPDATE 2/27/25

Here’s another example of Fucking Evangelicals™ belief about abuse/love.

Seriously fuck these people.

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-bible-defends-hitting-disabled-students-2036574

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4 responses to “Power of Abuse”

  1. Kim Avatar
    Kim

    Sadly reminding me of when my mom was in an abusive relationship while insisting she wasn’t and constantly doing things to get abused MORE.

    I don’t understand it, but this rings so true. Devastated for the world my kids are growing up into and that *this* is the president they’ll remember of their childhood.

  2. Karen Avatar
    Karen

    I found this blog 2 days ago. I spent all day Wednesday and Thursday and 3 hours today reading this blog. I COULD NOT STOP reading. I would read until I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I posted a few comments on a few post, but I was compelled to keep reading. I did all the homework. Hell I even checked that godawful book from the libary and read it. Such persecution porn to be putting in front of 8-10 year olds.

    2016 was my fucking wake up call to the evils of evangelicalism and I’ve been deconstructing my life and processing the trauma being in that world for my entire life caused. Hell I was in the camp that considered FOTF to be too liberal due to their associations. Fucking Fundamentalist. But as I said in another post, I do credit James Dobson with making me the liberal purple hair cat lady I am today. My ADHD doesn’t like hypocrites and when I am taught that Character Matters and then the person who taught me that Character Matters does a 180 with NO EXPLINATION I get angry and hyper focused on finding all the lies I was told. Spoiler: A LOT OF LIES.

    And Like you Dave I’m scared. I’m a Childless Cat Woman (Evangelicals don’t like married women who CAN’T have kids, because we are obviously such bad sinners to not be able to fulfill our one biological function) with ADHD and Major Depression living in Texas.

    I don’t know if you are still checking this. I know its winter and SAD sucks especially on top of MDD but I appreciate the time and effort you put in to telling your story. And I hope you continue to get your story out there. I hope you are doing ok in your personal life. I didn’t see anything about a Patrion or what not but I would like to help support this endeavor somehow.

    1. dave Avatar

      Karen,

      I have read every word you’ve written me and I keep meaning to sit down and respond and then another wonderful message comes in.

      Thank you so much for your enthusiastic diving into The Prodigal!

      One of my hopes as a content creator is that I’m hopefully writing this in such a way that it flows together and creates a valuable experience for readers. Your inability to stop reading is the greatest compliment a writer could ever get. I am so proud that this work hooked you so powerfully. *swoon*

      I will eventually respond to each of your messages– I’ve been really lagging at that for reasons which will become clear soon.

      I am currently in the process of setting up a Patreon and Discord server where folks can create a community where we can talk about all of these things. And where folks can financially support the project so I can keep making it. I hope to have that up and running and announcement out within the next week or two.

      I am so grateful for your feedback and the sharing of your details of your experience and life story. One of my goals is that by presenting my story it will help encourage others to find the courage to call these cults out by sharing all the awful that happened to us all.

      I’m grateful as well for your willingness to support this project and beg your patience while I get everything up and running… there’s so much more story to tell (about halfway there) and I hope to be dropping audio tracks in the Patreon where folk can actually hear what it sounds like in my actual voice for those who don’t have the internal fortitude to gut out a solid 2 1/2 days of reading the worlds most bloglicious blogject like you did.

      Welcome to the journey and our community, Karen! So wonderful to have you here and along for the ride ❤️

      -Dave

      1. Karen Avatar
        Karen

        Dave,
        thank you for the response. I understand how things get busy and how overwhelming life can be. Being neurodivergent already eats up so much bandwidth and than all the stressors of life can make simple things near impossible. I will be following this and I may go back and add comments to post that resonated with me. Don’t feel you have to respond to each one.

        Although I have one story to share with you at the moment about how evangelicals are trained to not listen to other view points. I’ve been telling my husband about this. Hell I started bawling the first night of my intense reading because I was so sad for you and so angry and fucking evangelicals for how they screw with people and woke my poor wonderful husband up.
        Anyways I’ve been giving him the cliff notes of this blog and I asked him if he listened to AIO growing up. He said he did until one day a character said something to the affect of “maybe God made a mistake” and his mom declared “God Doesn’t make mistakes” while turning off the radio and he was no longer allowed to listen. Because the bad character, in a evangelical, show, was setting up the lesson, on how “God doesn’t make mistakes” (Because I have no doubt that this character would have learned that lesson before the end of the episode) but even putting the idea out there, even if its going to be refuted was too much for her to take or allow her children to listen to. Fun times.

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