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"What kind of a demon-possessed mother would search through her child's things and take away his Halo Blood & Gore III video game and his Death Rock genre CDs and Satan Rock genre CDs and Mayhem & Violence genre CDs?"

You're exaggerating. Normal stuff was forbidden and he wa searched for that, not what you've claimed. The discussion at xpentacostals had someone noting that even Care Bears could result in kids being possessed by them, according to the preachers.

Nope. Reread the quote of his I put just above. I copy/pasted the entire quote. He doesn't say anything about Care Bears. He says his mother searched for CDs she didn't want him listening to. What would those types of CDs be like, I wonder? Based on the kind of music lyrics he was so fond of pasting into his posts, I think my educated guess is a reasonable one.

He also mentioned that she didn't like some video games. What would those be? Hmmm... What kinds of video games did the Columbine killers favor? Educated guess time again.

So no, I don't feel I was exaggerating.

Also, I think his words I quoted above do not support your "Normal stuff was forbidden" claim in another way as well.

Think about it, now. If "normal stuff" is forbidden, that would imply ALL video games and CDs and DVDs. Now, I can see it being possible to hide from Mom's view certain music CDs and certain video game CDs and certain movie DVDs, and only watching/listening/playing those banned items with the sound turned down low in your own room. But it's virtually impossible for a kid to hide for long a video game console, CD players, and DVD players. This implies that these pieces of electronics did exist in his home. This in turn implies that only items on the verboten list were banned in the home, and that music and video games and movies that the mother defined as "normal" were allowed.

For instance, I'll venture a wild guess that albums with lyrics like, "Satan lord, your throne among the flames of the abyss. Evil one, the mighty lord of hell... Satan" didn't make the cut in her home, into her "normal stuff" category.

Therefore, I am still awaiting a single example of this mother's alleged child abuse.

And no, I'm not a liberal or a libertarian. So quoting to me the atheists' currently favorite claim that "teaching any kind of religion to children is, in and of itself, child abuse" will not win me over.

The discussion at xpentacostals had someone noting that even Care Bears could result in kids being possessed by them, according to the preachers.

Seriously, even if that's the case, it is not "severely damaging." I've gone through worse "damage" than that if that is damage. Non-starter.