Everyone Knows That Televisions Are Portals To Hell, Right?
Just ask Candace Cameron
This article was originally published on Medium.
In another example of people who shouldn’t have podcasts, Variety reported this:
On a recent episode of “The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast,” the “Full House” star explained that her family will sometimes “make fun of her” whenever she talks about “spiritual things” happening in her home. One topic that makes her husband and kids start “rolling their eyes” is the TV, or as Bure calls it, “the portal.”
“Like if you’re watching this, or you’re playing this video game, or whatever, that’s a portal that could let stuff inside our home,” Bure said. “I don’t even want someone watching a scary movie in our house on the TV, because to me, that’s just a portal.”
The article goes on to say…
“Listen, I’m in the film industry,” Bure added. “I understand how it all works. I know that movie has a crew of 200 people, and they’re lighting it, and they’re adding the sound effects, and it’s makeup, and the camera, people, and actors. However, there’s still something that can be incredibly demonic while they’ve made it.”
It never fails to horrify me how much Candace Cameron sounds like my mother.
She acts like it’s some quirky, harmless thing. Hahaha. How funny and cute it is that she thinks televisions are portals to hell. It’s so silly and adorable that her family teases her about it.
What could be wrong with that?
Meanwhile, I would bet that her family doesn’t tease her about it as much as beg her to stop torturing them. That she probably emotionally abuses them all with this shit and never lets them relax and enjoy their life.
Christians are always telling me that it’s not a systemic thing. Their religion is good. It’s just a few weirdos I’ve met that made the whole thing bad to me.
Then tell me, please, how the fuck my Mom and Candace Cameron think the exact same garbage as each other? If my Mom just randomly, on her own, twisted the religion, then how come it extends so far that two people who have never met, who don’t go to the same church, and don’t follow each other in any way, think the same crazy ass thing, if there isn’t something systemic in Christianity that causes this?
And it’s not fucking quirky. It’s not cute. It’s not fun.
It absolutely tortured me as a child. Because while other kids were scared of the boogey man, they had parents reassuring them the boogey man wasn’t real. But my Mom was telling me tales of how if the wrong television show appeared on TV, demons would crawl out and attack me.
One day, I was being babysat and my babysitter turned on Nickelodeon to entertain us. A nice family friendly channel, right?
But it was the 90’s and “The Secret World of Alex Mack” was playing on television. Because of Alex Mack’s powers, my Mom had taught me that this was a demon filled show.
I told my babysitter that I wasn’t allowed to watch this show, that it was evil, and that I needed her to turn it off. She was a teenage girl, so she accused me of lying when I said my Mom had banned it in my house and said she was forcing me to watch it any way.
I was so terrified from my Mom’s talks with me that I curled into a ball, shut my eyes, covered my ears, and rocked myself until it was over, hoping if I didn’t hear or see the show, that the demons couldn’t actually get me.
Really quirky. Really funny when an adult does that to their child right? So cute like Candace Cameron says?
While most teenagers and children from the 90’s and early 2000’s remember the Miss Cleo commercials fondly (Click here if you don’t know what I’m talking about), I’ve never actually seen any of the commercials until today because my Mom told me she was shooting demons through the television to read my mind and possess me whenever she showed up on screen.
I’d literally run across the room whenever Miss Cleo came on and turn off the television in a hysterical panic. I’d count for awhile just to make sure the commercial was over by the time I turned the television back on and get even more hysterical if I accidentally turned it on again too quick.
It didn’t matter if I missed part of the TV Show as long as Miss Cleo wasn’t allowed to attack me with her demons.
It was so bad that I did it when my neighbor friend and I were watching television. I shut off the TV as soon as Miss Cleo’s face showed up.
My neighbor friend was confused about why I did that, so I explained to her all the things my Mom had told me about mind reading demons that possessed you. And I fervently insisted that she needed to turn off the TV when this stuff came on as well or she would be attacked, too, even if I wasn’t around.
I scared the shit out of her, so she told her Mom and her Mom said I was insane and making stuff up. But I was literally just repeating what my own Mom had taught me.
All because certain Christian Moms are so bad at parenting and have such low intelligence that all they can think to do is pretend that the television is a portal to hell as a way of controlling how their kids behave.
And we are supposed to think this kind of belief is funny, cute, and harmless?
No, Candace Cameron. Absolutely not.
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?" ~ Mark Twain
Thank you for calling out this behavior as abusive - that is what it is is. Brain washing a child to instill fear so that they follow your orders is not parenting. It isn’t instilling morals or ethics. It is abuse! Christians are so blind to their delusions and repeated abuse that they accept all the pedo men as normal.