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Gaslighting for (your own personal brand of) God

 Nothing can drive a person insane quicker than being raised in a cult in which daring to notice you're in a cult leads all of the cultists that surround you to treat you like you're either insane or duped by the devil for daring to ever think the religion you were raised in is simply an elaborate cult. 

Of course, those within the cult, who insist their cult is NOT a cult, are just as convinced that every other religion but their own brand is, in fact, a cult. 

Welcome to growing up in my Catholic family, where their Catholic "beliefs" are infallible and your observation that they are not infallible leads your "infallible" family members to need to convince you you're being driven insane by the devil.

Mention this to a "true" believer,  especially a few centuries ago, and they'd be sure to burn you alive as a witch or a heretic and be convinced that, for having done so, they deserve eternal pleasures for sending you to a God who is likely to send you to a place of eternal torment.

This is the true face of Catholic "love" in my Roman Catholic family. 

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