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Yes, she always was. In the real world, some people respond to that kind of treatment by losing their grip on sanity. In the Stephen King world, they gain terrifying psychic powers.

People in the media/movie industry have a history of attacking Christianity. Take a more recent example found in the show Revolution season 2 episode 8 in which a flashback is used to explain the motivations of a character with a brain tumor as being the result of abuse from his religious extremist father who blamed him for his mother's death.

In the flashback, the boy's father refuses to get medical attention for his ill wife because "it would be against God's will" but the boy does not share his father's faith, so he gets some pills from a doctor, who apparently prescribes them based on a boy's description alone, knowing no medical history, allergies, etc. But suspend your disbelief because it's only entertainment and believe that the boy was doing the right thing because the father is an extremist religious whacko. It's nothing more than manipulation of the audience, because the majority of people watching such a show abhor extremism and think that compromise is always the right thing to do.

An evangelical evangelizes. Anything else has more to do with individuals. If one individual who happens to be an evangelical abuses her daughter, then what does that have to do with the millions of other evangelicals who don't abuse their children? If you are going to stereotype based on a fictional character, why not stereotype all Atheists as the Frank Galaghers in life? See the show Shameless to know what I mean. The sardonic drunk who is always complaining how life gave him the shte end of the shtick.

I have the 1976 verion of Carrie on DVD and I hated Carrie's momnot because she's a Christian, but how sehe treats Carrie.

She wasn't a victim of her crazy mother. She had those evil powers that had nothing to do with crazy Christianity although she should have told her about her period before hand.

Not entirely. I think she would be a product of her genes making her vulnerable to her own mother's psychoses.

I know a brilliant scientist who was raised Mormon in Utah. She's no longer so and no longer lives there... she was adopted.

No. h she actually had Demon powers or whatever and she kills her mother with them. I think the mother was insane and I don't think religion was the cause of her insanity but who cares? It's a movie(and a stupid one) . That's like assuming ALL atheists are like Stalin because of the horrible things he did. Flawed reasoning.

There are three different Carrie files: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_(2013_film) , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_(2002_film) and the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_(1976_film) . The third version is closest to the novel by Steven King http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_(novel) .

Yes, she was. And her mother followed some off the wall apostate religion, too.

its a great film apart from dissing Christianity - the original - haven't seen the latest

a victim of a society of sin