#religious-trauma — Public Fediverse posts
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Surely no man knoweth the hour, but The Second Coming of Jesus Christ™ will be scheduled to align with the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints IPO. Get in early!
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📝 On Wednesday, there will be a powerful workshop on addressing #SpiritualViolence and healing from #ReligiousTrauma and a new book. Register below: https://purl.im/sv
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On Wednesday, there will be a powerful workshop on addressing #SpiritualViolence and healing from #ReligiousTrauma and a new book. Register below: https://purl.im/sv
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I'm not religious, but I used to be a VERY committed evangelical christian. I went to Moore and got my PTC, and had plans to go into ministry.
I'm no longer a christian.
But I can't help but think of verses like 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4, and discussions of the man of lawlessness, when I see this happening...
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To give you an idea how sheltered I was from much of popular media growing up, even though I was born in the mid-70s, the first time I ever heard Bohemian Rhapsody was in Wayne's World.
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[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
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I find the names interesting. They're way cooler than the names men gave to us when I was coming up.
'The group of girls turning 12 or 13 will now be called “Builders of Faith,” those turning 14 or 15 will be “Messengers of Hope,” and those 16 or older will be “Gatherers of Light.'
I did notice an interesting tier-structure, which mirrors the levels of heaven.
You've got your low-level laborers at the bottom, building shit. Then there's the Messengers, middle-managers who get a bit more pay for far less work. Then there's the Gatherers who are just gathering light, which is the lightest work of all, enlightened youngsters ruling over their younger, less-equal sisters in Zion.
I'd love to see the men's youth group counterpart names to represent the eternally opposing gender roles.
I suggest:
Foot Soldiers of Faith
Prophetic Preachers of Hope
Big Game Hunters of Lighthttps://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/04/25/lds-young-women-president-emily/
(Clearly this one's lit a blog post in me.)
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Wow, big changes in the LDS Church. They're giving women so much leeway over their own organizations!
Clearly, Mormon leadership has come to respect women and expects big things from them! They've put a tremendous amount of trust in them for this monumental job! How inspired! Has any human organization ever been so progressive towards women's liberation?
It'll be difficult, but I know you can do it girls!
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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
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Natasha Helfer on developments in Utah with the LDS church supporting rollbacks of discrimination protections for transgender people. 10 minutes.
#ReligiousTrauma #UTPol #exmo #exmormon #LGBTQ #Sexcommunicated
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Christians and defenders of Christianity who haven't thought it through like to point to the New Testament as where God finally decided to be a nice guy. (Which is antisemitic, btw. But that aside.)
Sometimes I revisit various stories from the New Testament and realize what an asshole Jesus was.
Today my feed reminded me of the walking on water story, in which Jesus was particularly dickish. It goes like this:
Jesus sends his pals out in a boat and he's like, "You go on boys I'll catch you up later." And he goes on a mountain to pray for the rest of the day because he's SO HOLY. When he's done, he heads back to the ship, which by now is way out to sea. So he just walks out there as if states of matter are nothing to him.
The dudes on the ship, they're like holy shit boys, there's a ghooost! (idk why but everybody was always mistaking The Christ for a ghost back then.)
Jesus is like "hey guys, lol naw it's just me, walking on water!! Check this out!"
Peter is like "I don't fucking believe you, SCARY GHOST! If it IS you, then tell me to come out there and get you!" (wtf Pete??)
So The Christ is like, "ok bru, come on out here."
Peter is like "boys, hold my beer, don't you go drinking it Judas, it's my last one!" and he jumps out of the boat and is walking on water, just like his buddy Jesus!!
But it's a bit windy and this one huge wave is like "ooooohhh I'm the ghost now! Boo!" and Peter is thinking "Shit this was really stupid, I'm way too drunk for this." So Peter starts sinking, right?
Then Jesus, god what a dick, he goes, "Pete you motherfucker, you didn't have enough faith and now I've got to save your ass AGAIN!" And he saved Peter from drowning, even though this whole thing was a setup from the beginning to make him look like some sort of savior.
And just to prove it, the weather calms right back down when Jesus gets into the boat, and they all has a good laugh.
Just kidding. What really happened is, in fact, everyone started worshiping him then and there with his smug-ass grin.
The version they tell in Sunday school has all of these same beats, but is told in a different tone, where Jesus is awesome and Peter should be ashamed of himself for not believing hard enough that he could only walk *a little way* on stormy water.
That, my friends, is what I call #AbuseCulture and why you should decolonize your mind.
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The scientist in this video, at the end, asks why scientists are so quick to assume animals don't have language, and my immediate answer was, "colonization."
My ancestors knew animals could speak. They used a spiritual model to convey this idea, that animals and humans aren't different, and that everything has a spirit. They told stories about things animals had said to them and others.
This type of religious view is known as "animism," which is shared by many pre-colonized societies, including my own European pre-colonized ancestors.
But both Christian and scientific colonizers labeled these people "primitives" and their ways as "backward." Then they systematically obliterated these cultures wherever they found them until this idea became a religious element, taken on faith, within science.
Strict categorization is a tool of colonizers. These researchers concluded that language exists on a spectrum. Spectrum-thinking is decolonization. As the scientific method decolonizes, the scientific model becomes closer to understanding reality.
And if you want some tears, read some of the animal interaction stories in the comments. I've been learning to talk to animals and it is incredibly rewarding.
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@canadaduane It doesn't really take a great approach though. God inflicts the suffering, suffering and obedience in this life are the answer to ending suffering after *death*, and suffering is the central sacrament.
Buddhism says suffering is an unfortunate but unavoidable fact, suffering isn't the same thing as pain, and that suffering comes from attachment. This gives us some answers for reducing suffering for ourselves and others.
Christianity (via Mormonism)
never taught me *how* to be companionate. In fact, its examples of how to be compassionate were actually just lessons on how to be sales force for the church. So it centered the goal of ending of suffering around getting people into the religion that worships suffering.My first inklings of *how* to feel compassion came from a single Buddhist meditation where he walked me through finding a helpless animal in an alley way and caring for it. It centered care, not suffering. I don't see a lot of Buddhists actually seeking out suffering or telling people they deserve it. They know it's already there, and move on to better pursuits.
I've learned more about how to be a healer from a couple of hours per year of listening to Buddhists than I learned in 20+ years of 20+ hours a week I gave to that church.
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Anyway, time to stop making fun of Easter and get back to suffering in terrible guilt that Jesus suffered in terrible pain so that anyone who obeys the father won't have to suffer but everyone else is a terrible bad person who gets to suffer for eternity! Yippie! What a joyous, wonderful time of the year!
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Gay dad has a forceful response to a 7-year-old who called gay people ‘the devil’
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"Iran did not need to blockade the Strait of Hormuz; capitalism did it for them. The market looked at the risk, did the math, & shut the door using actuarial science - The Devil's Math"
I've missed Step Back. Today's history/CE lesson :
https://nebula.tv/videos/stepback-whats-happening-in-iran-is-so-much-worse-than-you-think/Also on shite site youtube, if you must
#Nebula #Iran #warcrimes #DeadBirds #TrumpWar #CapitalismKills #capitalism #religiousTrauma
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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
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I saw a white evangelical basically screaming at the camera yesterday on YouTube about patriarchy, racism, capitalism, and SA, ready to split from every Christian, even the progressive ones, and while I disagreed with some of her minor points and her shouting gave me a headache, I'm emotionally so with her.
Would that even 25% of white women had even a portion of her intensity and self-awareness.
#exmo
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#ReligiousTrauma
#antiracism
#deconstruction
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🎶 Genealogy: Are you "doing" it? 🎶
Or are you just listing names and dates so you can nonconsensually force your dead relatives to conform to some arbitrary standard of perfection in the afterlife?
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#ReligiousTrauma
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#deconstruction
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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
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It's weird. I had a feeling I was going to win. Just this little joking voice inside me.
I figure the odds were in my favor. There probably weren't too many tickets in there.
I think I spent $5 on two tickets.
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So you'll never believe this. I won the raffle. I entered for the $50 gift basket. So a really great investment for me! And I hope those kids have fun on their mission trip and learn more than the people they're going to teach.
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I accidentally enthusiastically gave money for a mission trip to Costa Rica today.
I thought it was a school thing. Outside the hardware store, kids selling hot dogs and raffle tickets. What else was it going to be for?
But I'm in Idaho, sigh.
I love being in Idaho, and I've gotten comfortable here. Being white, a cheerful smile goes a long way. People here are very friendly.
They are also very Christian of the unexamined supremacist type, and I sometimes forget that. I've learned to safely navigate the culture here, but they're still trying to impose it elsewhere.
I hope they have fun on their trip, and I hope they learn more about the wide world than they manage to teach about their narrow one.
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There were the lies of Christianity, which infected western culture with the lies of colonization, which infected naturalists' minds with the lies of intellectual superiority, which infected modern scientists with the lies of scientific colonialism, all of which hid the fact that all along, many, if not most, of the tribes of the Americas were far more rationalist and empirical than Europe.
My experience of Buddhism is the same. At its core, Buddhism values truth based on empirical evidence. These are not ideas that were invented in the west, and the western scientific method is only one such method among many.
What is hopeful here is that after millennia of trying using all their technological might, western colonialists have failed to completely stamp these cultures out.
Ideas are alive, and they do not die so easily.
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TIL about the Piraha people of the Amazon, whose language makes it impossible to convert them to Christianity.
In fact, a missionary attempting to convert them in the 1970s ended up deconverting after experiencing their culture.
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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
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A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy "Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming Maybe it was up to me to save me" Sale: $30 to $2.99 by Tia Levings Rating: 4.5/5 (3,777 Reviews) #Memoir #ReligiousTrauma #Survivor #Christianity #Patriarchy #DomesticAbuse #Healing #Feminism #BookSky
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