The Nightmare of Christianity: How Religious Indoctrination Led to Murder
The authoritarian culture of the Christian right pushed a deeply disturbed young man named Matthew Murray over the edge.
Murray's parents were not neglectful of their son, nor were they intentionally abusive. By all accounts, they raised him in faithful accordance with the teachings of the Christian right's leading self-help gurus. In their cloistered world, where home-schooling is viewed as an ideal alternative to "government schools," and where the rod is rarely spared, they were model parents. Murray's killing spree thus reflected less on his parents than on the ... Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
While I have my misgivings about authoritarian and dictatorial religious cultures, I don't believe that truth is well served by a hatchet job.