She is the daughter of an evangelical pastor and told the hell she lived: “Pedophilia, violence and manipulation”

“For the first 18 years of my life, I was immersed in a pastoral family.” So begins the blunt Twitter feed what the user wrote Karen Lasca and quickly swept the social network. In her shocking testimony, she shared details of what it was like to grow up in this context and pointed out the similarity between what he experienced as a child and what we see in the new Netflix series “The Kingdom”.

The young woman clarified that she is the daughter of a “charismatic” evangelical pastor and assured that the appearance of the series It helped him get out to tell a part of his childhood and teenage years.

He explained that he did not have the possibility to choose on the religious and spiritual question: “It’s not something that can be questioned and you even get to feel bad about it. so as not to understand what it means to live in God. “

At the same time, she added that she was very isolated and that she did not “conceive” that families were not like hers: “During those years, my weekends went to church every day. The whole family lived by and for the church. It was all about that. “

However, the church was never a place of refuge for her, on the contrary, everything was under pressure: “I have always been asked to be the oldest daughter, to have to be correct and to do what is expected of me. I was never allowed to be an ordinary teenager and cheat on myself like anyone else. The eyes of the whole church were on me. About my whole family. “

“They shaped my head with prejudices towards the outside, towards the way others lived. They were lost, we saw something they didn’t see. The music, the way to have fun, not to go to church, it was all the devil that manifested itself. And it could infect me. “

Affectionate on the outside, dark in the privacy

In her thread published on August 23, which already has 40,000 likes, Karen recounted what her family was like after the Church doors were closed: “To society, we were what everyone wanted to have. My parents were loving, understanding. I have often heard people’s admiration for the example of parents I had. But the reality was very different. “

“The situation of my father, the exemplary pastor, it was identical to that of the shepherd of the series “, he expressed of the character played by Diego Peretti. “A man who was exemplary for society, but The interior left a lot to be desired. Pedophilia, physical and verbal abuse, manipulation, some of the things I had to go through. “

“They forced me to lie and shut up and shut up all hell, because the Church and the congregation were not to blame, And my God, I used my dad even though he was a horrible person. They were whole years of moments totally inconsistent with what everyone else has seen. “

The break

Karen later said that, fed up with this life, she tried to escape as soon as she could.: “When I was 18, I had the opportunity to leave my home and move to another city. The rescue and recovery process started there”.

“There are still things that cost, memories of really painful times. And I can only say that I never believed in this God that they told me about, because I really didn’t understand how God could allow so much damage to a whole family. “

A monster that spoke of God

“I never bought false forgiveness and my father’s promises after every blow he gave us. He didn’t believe that God would use such a lost man. My mother asked me to pray for him to change, and for a long time I thought that I did not know how to pray because It never happened “, said the young woman in her viral dump.

“Politics, the thirst for power, to control, to manipulate, it was everyday. Take the stage and give testimonies and words that have made many people fall inconsolable to the ground asking for forgiveness from God. It was all real, ”he added, remembering his father.

Later, Karen assured her that fiction had marked her: “This series questions the image of a part of society that feels blameless and untouchable, just to believe in a God who they think is the only one. And I applaud it, because even if they put a lot of magic and fiction, they made me, at 30, be brave. “

“And in a haphazard and spontaneous way, share a tiny part of my story. Which was awful, but it taught me to choose at a very young age. And I thank myself for choosing me and giving me a chance to live in freedom. “

“Everything can happen”

“Regarding the reality that is lived in evangelical churches, the young woman assured that everything is a big lie:”Religion has nothing to do with spirituality. And in the churches the absolute truth is not there. Human beings are capable of terrible things, and in evangelical churches EVERYTHING happens. It is time that this work also fell. “

“Evangelical churches poison with their message of hatred towards gays, those who are different, those who choose to live differently. They discipline the heads of people with a sectarian lifestyle. They should have censorship.

Finally, he explained that he felt compelled to relate what he suffered in his childhood and adolescence: “I see myself in the responsibility of exposing what I have suffered in my own flesh, and because in the face of so much hate and ignorance, it is always good to rely on the experiences and experiences of someone you know. “

And he concluded with important details about what was going on inside the family: “I have not been the victim of sexual abuse. Yes, he was a close relative with whom we shared a roof. But the preference went to the male sex. 2- I neither want nor seek to be evangelized or compassionate by the love of God. “

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