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Study shows similarities between cult and trafficking survivors.
"While high-control groups and sex trafficking are usually treated as distinct social and legal problems, this comparative framework establishes that their underlying mechanisms of coercive control are functionally equivalent. Identifying these deep structural similarities addresses a historical gap in academic literature, providing a foundation for cross-disciplinary intervention models, updated legal definitions of psychological captivity, and unified trauma treatment strategies for survivors of both settings."
Via the ICSA.
#AbuseCulture #CoerciveControl #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #ICSA
https://icsatoday.substack.com/p/study-shows-psychological-similarities
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Study shows similarities between cult and trafficking survivors.
"While high-control groups and sex trafficking are usually treated as distinct social and legal problems, this comparative framework establishes that their underlying mechanisms of coercive control are functionally equivalent. Identifying these deep structural similarities addresses a historical gap in academic literature, providing a foundation for cross-disciplinary intervention models, updated legal definitions of psychological captivity, and unified trauma treatment strategies for survivors of both settings."
Via the ICSA.
#AbuseCulture #CoerciveControl #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #ICSA
https://icsatoday.substack.com/p/study-shows-psychological-similarities
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Study shows similarities between cult and trafficking survivors.
"While high-control groups and sex trafficking are usually treated as distinct social and legal problems, this comparative framework establishes that their underlying mechanisms of coercive control are functionally equivalent. Identifying these deep structural similarities addresses a historical gap in academic literature, providing a foundation for cross-disciplinary intervention models, updated legal definitions of psychological captivity, and unified trauma treatment strategies for survivors of both settings."
Via the ICSA.
#AbuseCulture #CoerciveControl #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #ICSA
https://icsatoday.substack.com/p/study-shows-psychological-similarities
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Study shows similarities between cult and trafficking survivors.
"While high-control groups and sex trafficking are usually treated as distinct social and legal problems, this comparative framework establishes that their underlying mechanisms of coercive control are functionally equivalent. Identifying these deep structural similarities addresses a historical gap in academic literature, providing a foundation for cross-disciplinary intervention models, updated legal definitions of psychological captivity, and unified trauma treatment strategies for survivors of both settings."
Via the ICSA.
#AbuseCulture #CoerciveControl #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #ICSA
https://icsatoday.substack.com/p/study-shows-psychological-similarities
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Study shows similarities between cult and trafficking survivors.
"While high-control groups and sex trafficking are usually treated as distinct social and legal problems, this comparative framework establishes that their underlying mechanisms of coercive control are functionally equivalent. Identifying these deep structural similarities addresses a historical gap in academic literature, providing a foundation for cross-disciplinary intervention models, updated legal definitions of psychological captivity, and unified trauma treatment strategies for survivors of both settings."
Via the ICSA.
#AbuseCulture #CoerciveControl #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #ICSA
https://icsatoday.substack.com/p/study-shows-psychological-similarities
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HONEST caller #deconverts after reading only two #Bibleverses! Reality bites hard sometimes. This caller finds out the hard way.
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Do #Bible #Scholars Just Make Stuff Up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYkiQkF0ds
#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #HistoricalEvidence #AncientBooks #Exvangelical #Skeptic #Atheist #Agnostic
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#PromiseBacklund:
#NoFear. #NoShame.TheThinkingAtheist
Promise is best known for her "#EveWasFramed" videos, and for co-hosting "Chewed Gum" on #TheLine. She escaped #fundamentalism and today helps others to do the same.
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@jmagi828 This whole thread.
https://mastodon.social/@KydiaMusic/114372331256974482
[email protected] - Happy Easter!I gots so many Jesus memes.
PREPARE THYSELF. 🧵
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#13
Ok last one for now. Not really a meme, but an important reminder about what Jesus was really about.
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#7
This one is possibly my favorite, b/c wow does it hit
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Happy Easter!
I gots so many Jesus memes.
PREPARE THYSELF. 🧵
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#holyweek #humour #humornegro
#HumourNoir #funny #cartoon
#viernesdememes #memercredi
#easter #jesus #jesusmemes #exvangelical
ALT-TEXT: Line ink drawing. Three figures rest at the foot of a hill after shooting a scene, as suggested by a film camera in the background. The Father rests on a tree wearing a long robe. He resembles the artist (bald bearded old man) and holds a bottle to his mouth. The Son sits at his feet. He is Jesus Christ in a crown of thorns, carelessly smoking a cigarrete. Bottom figure (The Holy Ghost), most likely the filmaker, wears a baseball cap and sunglasses. Papers hang from his right hand, above a holy bible full of page markings. The scene has a burned-out heavy feel, as if having been played too many times. It is signed as Diaz/79. Hugo Diaz Jimenez was known for decades of prolific heavy political satire in #CostaRica Central America. -
Many of us understand that there is one side of the US political spectrum that has turned truly awful, but what a lot of people don't seem to understand is how that got that way and why they are so adament about their beliefs. Of course there are pragmatic reasons (people who are wealthy and in charge of things want to stay that way) but still it is truly astounding that so many people who are not among the category of "rich white men" will still cling to those who probably despise them, or if not them then people they know and maybe even love. There is a person I know who is employed at a public agency and his direct boss is probably the biggest Trump supporter in the building - oh, and she also happens to be a lesbian. How does that make any sense at all, given what Trump and his followers have said they want to do to #lbgtq people?
Well, a big part of it is religion, and in particular the Christian religion. So many of those people have somehow been convinced that to oppose Trump would be to oppose "God's annointed" even though it is obvious to most of us on the outside of their bubble that Trump is not a God-fearing man, and would probably be among the first to have Jesus shot to death if he ever came back.
But step back a bit - where did this idea of just unconditionally obeying a "man of god" come from in the first place? Well, that is certainly nothing new, after all the early church required its followers to obey the Pope and all the bishops and cardinals and priests and so on. But where did that ever come from? After all, Jesus for the most part condemned organized religion, especially the scribes and the Pharisees of his day, according to the Bible.
So where did #Christianity go off the rails? Well, for years I have been saying that it's because Christians, and especially modern #evangelicals, stopped following the teachings of Jesus a long time ago. Sure, they pay lip service to him and pray to him, but for the most part they follow the instructions found in the writings of the "apostle" Paul. And that is a real problem, because Paul was probably just as deluded ans any guy who's ever started his own cult or sect that is loosely based on Christianity. There are many cults that use the Bible AND other writings (but mostly the "other" writings) as the basis of their religion, the only difference is that the extra writings of Paul (and possibly others who used his name) got included in Biblical canon by the early church. But that doesn't mean they are writings that Jesus would have in any way approved of. In fact, there are cases where Paul's writings directly contradict the teachings of Jesus. Here's a good video on the topic:
7 Times Paul Contradicted Jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNDsaPoeuzkWhy is this important? Because most of the hate you see coming from the so-called "religious right" is not a part of their religion if you leave out Paul (and also the old testament, but that's another discussion). I have said before, they seem to love conspiracy theories, and you could make a great conspiracy theory that the early church included Paul's writings in the Bible even though they knew he was a "false christ" because if you wanted to control the masses and make them subserviant to the church hierarchy, teaching only the words of Jesus simply would not do. But if you wanted to replace the Christian religion with something that was in many ways the polar opposite of what Jesus taught, then Paul was your guy. And that is as true today as it was hundreds of years ago, and it is the reason so many Christians are deluded about who God has chosen to lead them (and yes, I realize they are to some degree deluded because they want to be, because the delusion reinforces their prejudices and their hatred of those who are not like them). But when they try to stand on their religion as justification for what they believe or do, maybe it is worth asking which religion they are talking about, the one taught by Jesus or the probably totally fabricated version made up by Paul?
EDIT: Here's one more (this reminds me of some dishonest preachers):
The Dishonest Apostle | Was Paul Caught in a Lie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wGNsRCiTTY#biblecontradictions #deconstructionism #exvangelical #counterapologetics #USpol #ReligiousTrauma #ptsd #ChristianNationalism #Christofascism #deconstructing #evangelicalism #postchristian #postchristianity #exchristian #EmptyThePews #exvie #AbuseCulture #politics #mysogyny #homophobia #racism
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#Christian #apologist #FrankTurek likes to quote renowned #Bible #scholar Dr #BartEhrman to back up his points... the trouble is that seemingly every time he's misrepresenting the professor's points. #DrEhrman joins me to review his actual positions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwcZ4vHmp-I
#christianity #counterapologetics #biblehistory #scholars #NT #newtestament #extrabiblical #deconstructionism #exvangelical #biblicalstudies -
Also today is the last day of #PrideMonth but that doesn't mean we have to stop posting Pride memes or encouraging, supporting, or standing up for our #LGBTQIA peeps.
Also one day I'll post ALL my #JesusMemes, b/c as a former #WorshipPastor and current #Exvangelical, I have a plethora of Jesus Memes.
#Memes #Humor #Funny #FridayFunny #FridayFeeling #ADHDMemes #AuDHD #ADHDers #NeuroDivergent #NeuroDiverse #NDMemes #Jesus #ReligiousMemes
#SelfCare #SelfCareMemes #YouAreWorthy #IAmWorthy -
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