Purity Culture

Linda Kay Klein - Paraphrase "Evangelical Christian purity culture creates a kind of PTSD among survivors." 

 

 Elizabeth Smart - Kidnapped and rapped, yet is she still the chewed up peice of gum? 

 

 Religious Trauma Syndrome - Michelle Panchuk of the Center for Philosophy of Religion 

 

 Paraphrase "The couching of religion makes it difficult to determine that one is in fact being traumatized."