whenever i hear of someone talking about being raised in a strict religion, i notice my instant curiosity is "were you homeschooled for all of it tho". Homeschooling feels like the big dividing line between "annoying cultural experience" and "totalizing world brainwashing"
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some exceptions exist for extremely religious schools that are actually only populated by other very religious people; some subsections of mormonism hit this, for example.
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The good thing is that some people become Muslims, even if it's secret.
The psychological comfort that allah grants is the reason
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I was raised as a fundamentalist Orthodox Jew and attended private all boy yeshiva for 12 years….I wasn’t allowed to befriend anyone who wasn’t an Orthodox Jew or otherwise was exposed to them at all…the cult is real and none of us were homeschooled
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Yes, thank you for putting it so succinctly. I was home schooled and raised Jehovah's Witness. Very hard to disentangle as an adult.
Very hard to explain to people why I'm so strange.
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I think being homeschooled is actually less strictly religious than going to a super religious school, unless your parents are stricter than the strictest people at the school. Usually the strictness of religion in schools is determined by the max among its powerful members.
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