In Happily Abused: How to Use a Woman's Faith and Trust to Make Her a Willing Accomplice to Her Own Abuse, Vyckie Garrison responds to a religion-based victim-blaming article for women enduring emotional abuse. She clearly lays out the suffering caused by telling an abuse victim that God wants them to be in that position.
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[A]ll the old faith-based confusion crept back in to muddle my thinking and I found myself second-guessing everything I've discovered about reality, mutuality, boundaries, self-preservation, equality ... My brain momentarily reverted to its religiously-conditioned comfort zone of self-abnegation and the abdication of choice and positive action in favor of "spiritual" rationalizations for hand-wringing and overwrought inaction.
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