![]() Too many in this struggle assume they must go it alone. ![]() ![]() The passage out of fundamentalism tends to feel like an unexampled excruciation. Self-exiled from their community, and unable to fit into the secular world, they get stuck in anomic limbo, strangers to all. Their knowledge of it, though, is so second-hand and distorted that, should they seek to cross-over, they run a high chance of getting beat back down and cast off as damaged goods. Kids growing up in isolated subcultures are aware of the outside world. ![]() I’m exaggerating, of course, but only slightly. The kind of fundamentalist school I went to churns out two kinds of individuals: super-Christians-with gleaming smiles surgically implanted on their faces-and drug addicts. ![]()
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