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Thank you. Even the Evangelical Christian's guy Paul said it wasn't necessary. It is about a deeply abusive culture rejecting the child's autonomy. It's roots was Egyptian Slave culture, and while I am marked as one of pharaoh's servants (or YHWH or Jesus's) I reject that position in the world.

Thank you for your stand against this wicked violation of a child's autonomy.

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There's a scene in Game of Thrones where the slavemaster makes a circular cut to rip off a slave's nipple. I hope people were smart enough to understand what this was a sanitized version of.

Making a person a "slave to Jesus" is a total perversion though. The New Testament is very clear about that sort of thing. On this, you can challenge Evangelicals in their own language on their own ground.

Please don't take HN threads further into religious flamewar. It's a particularly hellish direction for internet discussion to go, and also particularly avoidable, and we're certainly trying to avoid it here.

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I think I should be allowed to talk about the pain this culture caused me.

That's fine, as long as you do it within the site guidelines, which means eschewing flamebait, having curious conversation, and everything else described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Some topics are not easy to talk about in the key of curiosity, but it's still doable, if you set that intention.

I appreciate that you described a religious flamewar as hellish.

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