William Lindsey Aug 3, 2025

Samantha Hancox-Li and Talia Levin discuss the well-documented link between authoritarian patriarchal religion (and the Republican party) and sexual abuse of minors.

As Hancox-Li says, despite the overwhelming evidence for this link between sexual abuse of minors (and women) and authoritarian patriarchal religion (and the Republican party), people shy away from talking about this link.

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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberalism-37-the-authoritarian-logic-of-child-abuse/

Neon Liberalism #37: The Authoritarian Logic of Child Abuse

Join Samantha and guest Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords and Wild Faith, as they discuss Donald Trump's connections with Jeffrey Epstein, the broader problem of child sexual abuse among Republicans, and how this connects with their vision of a family and a nation dominated by authoritarian, unaccountable fathers. As

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 3, 2025

Talia Levin responds (I've edited out ums and verbal "fillers:):

"When you have a situation in which absolute unquestioning male authority over women and children is the only acceptable model, that is also a model of abuse. When obedience is considered the chief virtue in a child, that's a model of abuse."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"And what we're seeing across the country where educating kids about what sex is and should be and their own desires and their own boundaries is being so firmly squashed, that is a system that enables abuse."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 3, 2025

"When we see the homeschooling movement gaining strength, gaining power, isolating children from mandatory reporters, sort of entrapping them in a home environment, that renders them more or less the property of their parents with very little regulation or almost none, that is a system that enables and primes abuse."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 3, 2025

As the commentators go on to point out, Christian religious bodies in which it's now clear there have been shocking levels of abuse of minors and vulnerable people have nothing in common in their doctrines or polities — except for one important thing:

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 3, 2025

the Catholic church, Southern Baptists, and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are all intensely patriarchal, male-dominated religious groups that subordinate women to men.

And in each, it turns out, abuse has long been tolerated and covered up. Go figure.

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Show threadΩ 🌍 Gus PoseyAug 3, 2025
@wdlindsy All of the Abrahamic faiths are inherently misogynistic.