If God is love, why did so many people from my former church community end up needing psychological healing from religious trauma?
If God is love, why did so many people from my former church community end up needing psychological healing from religious trauma?
I grew up in one of the largest Pentecostal churches in Europe.
Around the year 2000, there was what I would have called a revival. People flooded the church. On Sunday mornings, traffic would be blocked because so many people were coming. The public bus would stop directly in front of the church instead of continuing to the bus station, because almost everyone on the bus was getting off there anyway.
My family joined the church when I was 7 years old. I left when I was 17.
When I was 12, I spent one year in the church school. Many others were not as fortunate. Some started there at the age of 6 and stayed until graduation at 18. Years later, many of them needed psychological healing from religious trauma.
I am searching for answers.
If the church was truly the Body of Christ,
if the pastor was presented as God’s representative,
if Christianity, faith, or religion was meant to bring us closer to God,
and if God is love —
how could this happen?
The first episode of my podcast, THE ANSWER?, will air on 19 September 2026.
Stay tuned.
Do you have similar experiences?
Can you offer meaningful insight on this topic?
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