Broken Arrows: Abuse is not love
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Broken Arrows: Abuse is not love

CFC explicitly teaches that physical violence, emotional neglect, and isolation are necessary tools if loving parents want to make their children become faithful disciples of Jesus.

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Broken Arrows: Our Emotions
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Broken Arrows: Our Emotions

By “othering” personal thoughts, CFC trains children and adults to be constantly at odds with themselves in a state of passive indecision that looks for outside direction. CFC leadership then offers church-approved philosophies, practices, and opinions as though they are God-ordained truth, keeping members trapped in the vicious codependence of high-control authoritarian communities.

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Broken Arrows: Our Bodies
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Broken Arrows: Our Bodies

When parents deny children basic human rights of bodily autonomy, agency, and privacy, their children learn that their bodies are not their own but always under the authority of someone else. The practice of deliberately humiliating and breaking a child’s spirit lays harmful groundwork for their future relationships as adults, teaching them that love means submitting to abusers who claim authority over their bodies.

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Broken Arrows: Obedience
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Broken Arrows: Obedience

Training children to respond to instructions with nothing but immediate and cheerful obedience (under threat of physical and emotional harm) leaves no room for a child to question whether the instructed activity is safe for them. ⁠

Training children to obey adults without questioning the why behind the command prepares them to do the same with any authority figure in the future.⁠

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