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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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Promise Backlund (@eve_wasframed) is a former worship leader turned counter-apologist. I first heard of her on Seth Andrews’s podcast. She wrote a book called Gospel of Lies (the title sounds harsher than it actually reads).
There’s one chapter where she discusses the impact that music, architecture, mood lighting, and large gatherings can have in producing feelings of transcendence and euphoria for the human “spirit.” She writes of going to her first secular rock concert and finding it just like church. “My belief that God was as involved with a rock concert as he was with a worship service turned out to be closer to the truth than I realized. It turns out God was equally uninvolved. But my confusion was by evangelical design, as there is little difference between their worship services and a live concert. Music is already manipulative by nature; that’s why we listen to it.”
She doesn’t mean that musical manipulation is necessarily a bad thing–we listen to music to help us feel good; it’s like art or literature, where the creator of the piece is trying to evoke certain thoughts or feelings to the audience or reader. But you need to be aware that it’s human-made. Otherwise, “these emotional moments can convince you that of course there’s a god…”
“Music’s ability to impact our emotions, physical state and behavior has been widely studied and universally recognized.” Look at the minor keys for the “Imperial March” in The Empire Strikes Back or the Emperor’s theme in Return of the Jedi and contrast that with the uplifting major key of the Rebel fanfare. That’s John Williams who did that, not God.
As a worship musician myself for many years, I have experienced the manipulation from both sides. If a pastor wanted to really turn on the tears during a prayer service, he would give me the nod and I’d gradually shape the improvisational droning of my violin into an upwelling theme that sounded like something out of the Braveheart soundtrack. I didn’t see myself as doing manipulation in that moment, though; I thought I was just being “used by God.”
Find her book here: https://medialabbooks.com/products/9781964487557_gospel-of-lies #atheism #exvangelical
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You Can't Solve ANYTHING Without Critiquing Religion
From the way we vote to the way we view labor, commodities, and each other — our society is built on #religious ideology, whether we realize it or not. Yet, so many leftist and #socialjustice movements avoid critiquing religion directly.
#exchristian #exvangelical #criticalthinking #religion #ideology #ATHEIST #ATHEISM
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Two leaders, one playbook: #Christian #nationalism on repeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f52eAi_bUro
This video explores the similarities between Trump and Brazil’s former president Bolsonaro, focusing on how they used #evangelicalism in their pursuit of power and control.
#exchristian #exvangelical #deconstruction #christiannationalism #politics
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The #Violent #Hypocrisy of #American #Christianity
#KayseMelone
#exchristian #exvangelical #christiannationalismChristianity has long been framed as the ultimate path to #morality, #familyvalues, and #goodliving. But #history tells a much darker story. From #missionaries who dismantled indigenous cultures to the role of Christianity in #colonization, #conquest, and modern Christian nationalism, the truth is clear:
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The "#ShinyHappyPeople" #sequel highlights the #Christian boot camp that traumatized a generation
The three episodes focus on #TeenMania, a Christian #ministry founded by #RonLuce, with a goal of getting children to turn to #Jesus and reject temptations like #sex, #drugs, and #alcohol.
But the #darkside of the ministry destroyed so many lives.
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#Antitheism, #atheism, and the REAL harm of #organizedreligion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQTpzeCj08Y
#Religion has been used to justify #slavery, #patriarchy, #queerphobia, and #colonization — but does that mean all #religious people are bad?
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#Deconstructing #Christianity As a #Woman
@KayseMelone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8QaLzSkcEI
" Being a woman in the #Christian #church was not always easy. Here, I talk about how much better life is now that I've left."
#deconstructingchristianity #womeninchurch #exchristian #exvangelical
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Why #Deconstructing From #Evangelical #Christianity Is SO Important and SO Difficult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltuEEsqgU08
#deconstructingchristianity #exvangelical #exchristianThis is a short clip from a full episode of The Kayse Melone Show. Here, I talk about why I think #Deconstruction from Evangelical #Fundamentalist Christianity is so important. Also, what happens after we go through Deconstruction?
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Could someone *please* tell the #theobros that #TotalDepravity is not supposed to be their life *goal*?!
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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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Reality Check: What Must Be the Case if #Christianity is True?
https://www.debunking-christianity.com/2023/11/reality-check-what-must-be-case-if.html
#debate #christian #atheism #atheist #counterapologetics #exvangelical #sundayschool #cults #badhistory -
#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 -
#Hillsong in the news again over a $50k salary-sacrifice pool.
So I thought I'd share a photo of me from my time there. This is me at my college graduation 25 years ago after Brian Houston handed me the microphone. God (lmao) I loved that peroxide hair. Do you think the hair and my regular Sunday morning floral ties ever screamed #QUEER at anyone? 🤣🤣
#exvangelical #Evangelical #Pentecostal #deconstructingchristianity #deconversion #deconstruction #agnostic -
#introduction #choir #choral #musician #composer #conductor #teacher #professor #educator #pianist #startrek #lowerdecks #StrangeNewWorlds #prodigy #tng #ToS #Voyager #newmusic #lgbtqiaplus #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nevertrump #travel #traveller #married #lovewins #deconstructingchristianity #exvangelical
