This self righteous preacher obviously had traumatized his own child, just as this idiot mother has abused her children with scarey stories of alarm and feeling helpless to stop catastrophe when it hit.
I think it is a small but atrocious side skirmish in the lefties' war against their own children.
You're right... very observant... It's also close to Munchausen by proxy - using a universal series of 'sky is falling' propaganda bits put out by fellow left-wingers to terrify children.