Trigger warning: Intellectual and emotional abuse of children. Video shows schoolchildren forced to participate in a horrifying & bizarre Christian ritual.

Watch the following video, entitled “Children forced to submit to horrifying & bizarre Christian evangelical revival” –

Apparently the video is from Chris Harvey Ministries, and takes place in Corning, New York, at some unspecified time.

The following is a longer video version of what seems to be the same event, and is entitled: “Chris Harvey – Children Under the Anointing – Revival In Corning, New York” –

Clearly, forcing children to accept the religious superstitions of their parents can be a form of child abuse, and forcing a child to participate in the kind of emotional and intellectual abuse portrayed in the video is obnoxious to reason and human decency.

Only perverse religious superstition could make parents and other adults believe that subjecting children to this sort of emotional drama is a healthy or wise course of action.

The harm this sort of gross and abusive religious indoctrination can do to the mind and mental health of a child cannot be overestimated, and only reinforces the notion that religious indoctrination can be, and often is, a subtle and not so subtle form of child abuse.

(H/T Christian Nightmares)