Spiritual abuse occurs when someone uses your religious or spiritual beliefs to manipulate, dominate, or control you.

Spiritual Abuse is:

• trying to prevent you from practicing your religious or spiritual beliefs
• making fun of your religious or spiritual beliefs
• forcing you to raise your children in another religion or spiritual choice
• using your beliefs to manipulate, dominate or control you
• creates fear and shame by using religious or spiritual quotes to point out his percieved weaknesses of you
• not allowing you to practice birth control in the name of religion