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When I was 7 years old, and my brother was 9....we would go to Sunday school with our dad. We weren't exactly a religious family, but my dad would go because there was a woman he liked there. We'd tag along. Plus they had free donuts and juice in the morning.

Well, one day we were all singing Jesus songs and making crafts and stuff....and it was pretty harmless stuff. It was just nice kinda socializing with kids sorta the same age as me.

But then the teacher lady kinda started getting into some preachy boring stuff. Trying to integrate it into fun lessons and sandwich it between crafts and games so we didn't pick up on the indoctrination that was clearly taking place.

My brother was super intelligent for his age. He was in all the gifted programs and stuff. He was 9, but he was reading at a college level.

I remember he raised his hand and asked a question about the lesson. It was harmless. He was just pointing out how one thing she just said kinda contracted something she said earlier in the day. I don't even remember what it was. I just remember how defensive the teacher got. She took my brother out of the room, then came back a few minutes later. My brother was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of the day.

At the end of the day I saw my brother with my dad and his face was really pale. I asked him what happened, where did they take him?

He didn't want to talk about it for a while, but eventually I got it out of him:

He said the teacher took him to this side room where there were like 5 adult guys, he guessed priests, just kinda standing in the middle of this very blank and empty boring room. The teacher left him in there alone with these strange guys. He said they all got around him in a circle and all bowed and placed their hands on my brother's head. He said they started praying for him and repeating over and over, "God please end this boy's doubt" "God please end this boy's doubt" over and over.

He said it felt like an hour, but it might have only been like 10 minutes. But it was creepy as fuck.

Then they just sent him out to the main room where my dad was having "adult" mass with everyone else.

It traumatized my brother for years and made him hate religion.
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