Religious teaching trauma. Did t happen to you?

Though I am not a Catholic as you are I have had traumatic experiences with religion as well. I think that what happens is that sometimes as children even as adults we are given only a snippet of the story of God. For example as a child I heard on may ocassions that if I did not get saved I would go to hell when I died. Yet I was not old or mature enough in Christ to understand what that meant and because I was such a impressionable child I grew up thinking that i would never get this salvation thing right. So I can imagine how that must have scared you to see that image of Jesus. Though it is an image of a real event it takes maturity patience and understanding to really be able to absorb such things. So when I talk with my nieces I use the same caution with talking with them about Christ as I would any other situation that is sensitive. I do not talk with them in specific detail about His crucifixion like the blood and the gore etc. Not because I am hiding anything from them but I just use common sense. I focus a lot on the love of Christ with them and the Beatitudes and The Ten commandments that they can grasp. Anyway as I got older and got to know more mature people in Christ and got to know Him for myself, I began to understand Him better and get revelation about Him. I have learned that children are God's most precious commodity and He would never ever want us to be afraid of Him He loves us. Jesus loves us all this I know. I hope my sharing helps.

Purgatory is never mentioned once in the Bible. It was an idea conceived by a Roman Catholic Pope to extort money out of ignorant and Innocent people. The 'Christ on the cross' in many Catholic Churches is enough to disturb anyone. This is idolatry, but they'll tell you otherwise. Please read Peter De Rosa's' book 'Vicars of Christ' for an honest account of where the Catholic Church is coming from.

I too have been disturbed by religious teachings. I was mortified when my mother told me that her own parents were going to go to Hell because they weren't Christian. They were, together, the most impressive and incredible and kind people I have ever met. I had related to my mother a conversation with Grandmother in which Grandmother told me that she didn't believe Adam and Eve were individuals. My mom was trying to help me 'understand' the seriousness of believing the Bible. I cried buckets.

The next was when I was first taught that when i took communion, I was drinking the 'blood of Christ'. Of course, my dad wasn't being literal, but I did NOT know that. 5 year olds don't recognize metaphors and allegory without being prodded. I was preparing to TAKE my first communion (not Catholic - Presby). I was so flippin terrified that I played sick so I didn't have to go to church. My mom caught on, and prodded 'till she found out what I was upset about. Then she brought be a glass of grape juice, and explained. Geez, talk about trauma!

Blessings!

I think I may have been scared of the cross growing up to. And I may be dealing with that now as I try to resolve my issues with Jesus. I want to sort through all that though so I can see Jesus as he is not how I may have saw him growing up.

Just something to think about also, Jesus in the gospels took a child to him and said the kingdom of heaven belongs to these (Mark 10:14). Kingdom of heaven doesn't sound like purgatory to me . What kind of God would keep babies in purgatory? Also babies aren't mature enough to make a conscious decision to follow Jesus for life, which is what he expects. So why would we baptize children or babies if they can't make that decision yet. It doesn't make sense they would be in purgatory if they cant comprehend what it means to be saved. Baptism in the NT, which is hopefully where the nun got her teaching from, was for adults and I dont ever remember seeing any children being baptized, which is a requiement to be saved (Acts 2:13) or have to make a commitment to follow Jesus.

And biblically as far as I know there is no mention of purgatory. The closest thing is hades which is the holding place for whoever dies. Paradise for the saved in hades and somewhere else for the not saved. I'm still not solid on the truth about hades and all that I said after it. But you can goto www.douglasjacoby.com and type in hades and baptism. there are things abot infant baptism you can check out.

And maybe you can find some comfort in the purpose of the cross and what Jesus did on the site and not having to be haunted by it.

I don't know your parents, but if they didn't, I'm sorry they didn't love and comfort you like you needed as a kid and help you to feel safe and loved so you didn't have to be scared.

I think maybe kids would be disturbed by the cross. But they're supposed to have loving parents and teachers at the school that you can go to to get comfort, love, and a real explaination of what things are.

As for the babies going to hell, yeah I can maybe see kids being disturbed. Teaching the truths of the bible is a serious thing. People have to be really careful that what they are teaching is true before they teach it. And I'm not so sure the grapic death of Jesus can really be handled by a kid, maybe when they are older. My mom was told the same thing as an adult in her church about babies or chldren a long time ago and we left that church.

But find out about religious teachings for yourself to see if they are true. Look at the historical reliabibly of the text, evidence stuff like that.

But I am sorry things were so terrifing for you. Try to find some friends that really love you that you can find comfort from and talk it out with.

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I had to be forced to go to my first confession, crying hysterically. It was a scary experience and I didn't want to confess all my sins.

I see that you was gave a adult choice. and your reactions was of coarse not the intent. rationally, you had blinders put on you. did it get you through to recognize the bs?

i was never traumatized by God. sorry yours wasnt so pleasant.

were you just as traumatized by Bambi getting shot? or snow white being hounded by the witch?