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Yes, that is the reasoning chain they were using. I am pretty sure I indicated awareness of this reasoning in my initial comment? Or at least, it was implicit. If I did not, this response is to question, "yes, and?"

So! I feel it is erroneous to wave away bs reasoning like this as the result of brainwashing. (Or the fault of religion in general if you swing toward atheism.) It's reductive and dismissive, and extremely unhelpful/annoying to the person who grew up dealing with this bullshit! (I may be overreacting to the word "brainwashing" a bit because my trump supporting little brother called me a lot of nasty names and among them was "brainwashed lemming NPC.")

Now, onto my initial comment. Yes, I am aware of the reasoning chain. I was in fact complaining about the reasoning chain. This reasoning chain is also used by any in group on any out group that makes them uncomfortable! Not just idiots like my family who happen to be some flavor of Christianity. I have seen otherwise creative, imaginative people freak out because someone's OCs were treated as imaginary friends that the writer interacted with. I have seen otherwise creative imaginary people freakout because of some other thing that was "too far outside of their comfort zone. Furries. Otherkin. All kinds of 'a step to far,' things. Saying that this reasoning chain is ONLY the result of Christian Brainwashing (tm) is therefore reductive.

(Also: They did not think I was possessed. They were goddamn hypocrites. They freaked out because of what I read/my special interests (esoteric supernatural magic bullshit, fantasy, sf, mythology, etc, etc) but also watched fantasy and science fiction movies/tv shows. And shows about ghosts/hauntings. And shows about cryptids.)