It is all very complicated. It is an unholy mess and we need to shine huge spotlights on every bit of it. And there has not been a day this week that some other aspect has not emerged. We are of course brainwashed. The church selects for ability to have either secret perverted sex or none whatsoever, and it also selects for a sort of either apathy toward child abuse or an ability to tolerate it somehow or else the awful problems caused by lack of family planning would not be tolerated. There is the problem of the church in the marital bed, with mother and father being sometimes estranged and overinvolvement of son and mother..the sainted mother syndrome. Many people are highly needy for religious approval. Many mentally ill people are drawn to sadistic aspects of religion...their sickness is sanctified. They can impose their sickness on others. There is enough good in religion that some people only see the rosy parts. There is enough fear that we think that perhaps.it is all true. Works for me.