True, I didn't mean to imply intentional abuse or intent to harm on the dad's (or your) part, but it is a little cruel to keep a kid in a sauna so long they risk heat stroke. Just to follow the cult's teachings. It seems you recognized that even then in some way.
I didn't think you did, but I thought it was worth clarifying.
I've seen true believers do some amazo things!
There is a scientology technique called a "contact assist" that is done to relieve the immediate effects of a minor injury. For example, if on banged their elbow on a door, they would do a contact assist by touching it back to the place they banged it, trying to duplicate the circumstances of the injury as accurately as possible to make the psychic component vanish. (A memory and an exact duplicate of the memory are like matter and antimatter, or so says the theory)
Sooooooo, I was at a party, and went into the kitchen for a soda or something, and there was a scientology chick touching the frying pan and saying "OUCH! OUCH! OUCH!"
I watched a couple cycles of this performance and finally said, "Ummmm, Peggy? What are you doing?"
"I burned myself making popcorn and I'm doing a contact assist."
I said, "That's nice, don't you think you should turn the burner off and let it cool first?"
"You can DO that???"