This was beautiful. While I do not have a first-hand experience growing up in a religious institution, I think you did an amazing job of communicating what it must have felt like. It’s wild how children will take what was written in the bible as a factual truth and have the correct emotional reactions to what’s being described, while so many adults act nonchalant about the horrors they believe to be true heading their way.
Some of the surreal visuals were haunting as well, and did a great job of illustrating the mind of a child.