#exvangelical — Public Fediverse posts

Do you remember the book & Windows CD-ROM "The Bible Code" came out or was your family not as wildly evangelical pentecostal as mine?
:blobcatthink: 😅

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_Code_(book)

BTW, it was published by Simon & fucking Schuster. Not some niche Christian press.

#Evangelical #EXvangelical #bible #TheBibleCode #TTJ #Christian #ChristianNationalism

BLOOD MONEY GOSPEL wants * you* to rescue Jesus for Lucifer.

Limited time only: Three ways to live in the book forever! (Audio recordings & other alternative awards negotiable.) https://ko-fi.com/revcasey/shop

Read the full thread to preview the #exvangelical J-splatter #TTRPG fever dream coming soon!

Happy #BandcampFriday to all who observe it. I offer my latest album for your consideration. :) Digital downloads are $8, CDs are $15. And you can download this single, my little queer anthem, for free.

https://arendleejessurun.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-way-i-am-2

#folk #indie #queerMusic #exvangelical

RE: https://mstdn.party/@mcspocky/117011267732384614

Apparently this pastor paid less attention in Sunday school than I did. They really need to read the red letters & I think that's the perfect insult for #MAGA #Evangelicals

Signed,
An #EXvangelical that "got it"

@theogrin It has been my lived experience over decades.

I wish it was common knowledge, but I'm not sure of much of anything these days.

"The guilty dog barks the loudest" comes to mind, though.

#Evangelical #EXvangelical #Christianity #TTJ

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lnsy_dev/117011847340339614

Umm...I actually read the red words.

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full."
Matthew 6:5 NIV

#EXvangelical #Christian #evangelical

Everybody's excited to get to the torture scenes in the film version of this wholesome religious story.

(No shade on Mormon Land. They're just reporting, and their podcast is somewhat nuanced.)

#exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #ReligiousTrauma #DeathCult

Do you want to read about an ex-vangelical and his drag queen boyfriend solving a m*rder in space?

Of course you do.

M*rder on Donut Station is available now on my website!

https://whitehartfiction.co.uk/donuts

#exvangelical #queerbooks

@lnsy_dev @blogdiva 🎯

Both because it is absolutely necessary AND there is already a blueprint for it in the Judeo-Christian worldview. I use to hear about the "Year of Jubilee" growing up in #evangelical church.

This #EXvangelical supports #JubileeOrWar2028

#Jubilee #TTJ

“As children, we were held to this standard [1 Cor. 13] in order to receive love. If we were jealous, we were deemed unlovable. If we were rude, we were considered unlovable. We were required to love unconditionally, yet we were disqualified from being loved unconditionally. We were not allowed to keep a record of wrongs. However, you reminded us of our sins daily.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/thestrongwilledchild/p/no-contact-to-one-who-raised-us
#Exvangelical

Hello, exvangelicals.

I’m looking for book title suggestions for queer romance stories about people finding love after/while they deconstruct from the toxicity of evangelicalism and purity culture.

I’d love suggestions that play on common words/phrases/titles in the evangelical community. But, you know, flipping them on their heads.

Suggestions? Please and thanks.

#booktodon #exvangelical #askfedi

Book 19 was Gay the Pray Away, written and read by Natalie Naudus.

Queer teens deconstructing from evangelicalism ⛪️
Purity culture is toxic 🚮
Sapphic first love👭

On sale at Libro-fm: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798874727499-gay-the-pray-away

#bookstodon #exvangelical

Tonight I celebrated the solstice with friends.

It marks a point in the year that feels so much more right than the christian festivals I was brought up with.

I have had a good evening.

#Solstice #Midsummer #exvangelical

Oh, Christians are oppressed and persecuted all right.

By Christian leadership!

#ReligiousTrauma #AbuseCulture #exmo #exvangelical #exmormon #exvie

Do you want to read about an ex-vangelical and his drag queen boyfriend solving a m*rder in space?

Of course you do.

Pre-order M*rder at Donut Station now.

https://whitehartfiction.co.uk/donuts

#exvangelical #bookstodon #queerbooks

#evangelical
#exvangelical
#ContemporaryChristianMusic
#CCM
#PatriarchyHurtsEveryone

I was particularly offended at the funeral when the #evangelical preacher anticipated that some present would not share their belief. He actually said, "Some of you don't believe that, because you've never been quiet enough to hear what the still small voice of God is trying to say to you."

Fuck you, pastor, I spent twenty years of my adult life sincerely believing in Christianity, and it was proven to be false. I tried it; it failed. But pastor must slander to maintain "faith."
#exvangelical

Religious people often think that religion helps people grieve. But let me tell you that #evangelical funerals are god-awful! I just attended one of a more distant family member, whom I hadn't seen in probably ten years, and it was all about the necessity of submitting to God to go to heaven. Readers, I literally never heard this man mention God, not once, in decades.

If dead men tell to tales, it's amazing how many words can be put in their mouths!
#exvangelical

Book 2 was A Well Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy, written and read by Tia Levings.

After growing up in purity culture, Tia finds herself married to an abusive, controlling man. She has a whole quiver full of children before leaving him and restarting her life.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8637a616-92d3-4416-8e8c-7bd767258d10?redirect=true

#bookstodon #exvangelical

[Edit*]An older but ever-relevant of ICSA Today with articles on recovering from sexual abuse in cults, how to communicate with loved ones inside cults, the spread of conspiracy theories in France, and multi-generational cult survivors.

https://library.internationalculticstudies.org/24n7ceh/

[The issue is from 2021, but they emailed around an article from it recently.]

#ReligiousTrauma #cult #cults #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #ICSA

The ICSA has a journal article about how career counseling can help protect vulnerable kids from trafficking and cults.

Surprise! Poverty increases risk. Having a solid sense of identity helps prevent risk.

Abstract: 'Human trafficking is a rapidly expanding global criminal industry that frequently targets children and adolescents by preying on their vulnerabilities. This article presents research identifying seven categories of susceptibility in Generation Z, with a specific focus on how poverty and low personal achievement increase the risk of being trafficked. The authors propose that career counseling can serve as a vital preventive measure by building self-sufficiency, motivation, and a long-term “career self-concept” that helps youth reject the immediate gratification offered by predators.'

(Sorry, it's Substack.)

https://icsatoday.substack.com/p/could-career-counseling-help-protect

#ReligiousTrauma #cult #cults #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical

TFW you realize that your parents used "The Strong-Willed Child" by James Dobson as their primary parenting text.
😬

#CurrentMood #JamesDobson #EXvangelical #TTJ

The very evangelicals that have fallen for his bullshit warned my entire childhood about the #AntiChrist.

Is that irony or just incredibly fucking frustrating?

#EXvangelical #evangelicals #trump #TTJ

As an #exvangelical, it is a huge deal that not a single person has wished me happy Easter today (or tried to initiate the "He is risen / He is risen indeed" thing). Feeling really fucking happy and proud of my life choices. My nervous system is so much calmer today than it was 20 years ago.

Please don't ruin this by wishing me a happy Easter lol 😆

Christianity primed white people to feel guilty when certain Pavlovian bells ring.

Accused? Wrongdoing even subtly implied? Guilt! Shame!

Then, if it's a respected authority doing the implying (be it parent or priest), we're primed to submit.

If we don't respect the authority of the "accuser," well, were primed to see them as the enemy in the all-or-nothing good vs evil war. "My authorities haven't called that a sin so who is this person anyway??" And we lash out. At women, POC, queers, disabled, and often, even ourselves.

What, you're white but never were Christian? Sorry, but you were programmed this way, too. (If you feel mad at me, that's the programming.)

Christianity's way out from guilt and shame is impossible. It doesn't work. It's designed to make you feel forever ashamed and in debt to Jesus — or rather, the religious authorities who represent him. That's how they get you.

We aren't allowed to emotionally mature to know how to handle our own feelings when we've done wrong. We're forever dependent children on the religion. We go to confession, do the penitence, feel a few days of relief, then go back to feeling guilty. No matter how well-meaning any particular clergy, this is by design.

Now suddenly here's these people I don't respect out of unexamined implicit bias dumping more crap on me.

Aren't I bad enough? Haven't I submitted enough? What am I supposed to do about it?

I'm hamstringed. My white brain has been lobotomized wrt how to handle this. But also, I've been told by trusted authorities that I'm not a racist, so I'm not!!! Out comes the Karen.

Colonialism=Christianity=Corporatism

It's all the same system.

Freeing ourselves from this system means freeing those whose oppression we enable.

Because it's all the same thing.

#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #antiracism #antifa

In Mormon news, BYU tried to make an indigenous student cut his braids. So fuck them.

Thankfully, they responded to pushback and now will not make him do that, but I'm sure they will continue to get away with all of their other attempts to control the hairstyles and harmless behaviors of literally everyone else.

(Which is why this issue is a "white" cause as much as it is anyone else's. My Celtic and Germanic ancestors wore long hair in all sorts of styles, and so did yours. Whiteness restricts all of our freedoms.)

#exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #exvie #exvangelical #antiracism #deconstruction #BYU #LDS #Mormon

Book 18 was Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber.

As pastor in a progressive, affirming church, the author works with parishioners to help them unpack and recover from purity culture. In this book, she provides personal stories paired with biblical theory.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c733f530-8154-40e9-8a5c-e8037c88a91a

#bookstodon #exvangelical

#Exvangelical #Atheist #Atheism #Christianity #Christian #ExChristian #Faith #Fundamentalism #Religion #Belief #Agnosticism #Evangelical #Evangelicalism

I'm watching a horror movie in a purity culture setting called Pure. It's fairly good, really liking how they're handling the themes. I feel like it's personal for the director, who's a woman.

It's not a perfect movie. Feels like the director doesn't have much experience with the horror genre. But there's strong talent, just a little raw on the skills, small things that would have made it better.

I still haven't seen the ending. There are some ways I want this to go, and some ways I really hope it doesn't go.

(Previous twoot is not a direct quote, but sums up a speech the pastor is giving.)

[edit: ok that ending was super powerful. We need what happened there to become a recurring motif.]

[Director is Hannah McPherson. She didn't experience purity culture, but is real mad about it. https://deadline.com/2019/09/pure-director-if-youre-not-pissed-off-you-may-be-a-lost-cause-1202742568/ ]

#movieReview #horror #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #feminism