archive link: https://archive.is/H0FZY from [Talia Lavin](https://bsky.app/profile/swordsjew.bsky.social), who's high on my list of "anything she writes is worth reading" journalists. an excerpt from her upcoming book [Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America](https://bookshop.org/p/books/wild-faith-how-the-christian-right-is-taking-over-america-talia-lavin/21057649). hopefully the title made it obvious, but a big ol' content warning for explicit and heartbreaking details about child abuse and endangerment.