I think it says something about my religious trauma that not only did I already know all the terms here, I can probably write a version of this article without any further research
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Now *this* is good reporting.
Everything Samuel L. Perry is saying about the state of pop evangelicalism in the U.S. is spot on. I was smack dab in the middle of all of it ~10-15 years ago. I can still remember listening to *specific* Mark Driscoll podcasts in 2008. If you ever wonder to yourself…how can a man like Trump *still* be the darling of conservative Christians??! And why is a woman like Stormy Daniels so vilified?
This is your answer.
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Researching the #exvangelical movement and what happened to me in my crazy cultic youth. Reading The Exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon and watching #ShinyHappyPeople and ready to chew rails and spit nails. There are through lines in #ChristianNationalist brainwashing. What sticks out most is Exploitation for Money đź’° đź’° đź’° of frightened people who want to get God correct and fix family and country, and the terrible suffering of children.
#Exvangelical will exclude the first but defo not the 2nd.
Got a new book #Exvangelical
Got a new book #Exvangelical
Reading _The God Argument_ by A.C. Grayling. I got past the there-is/are-no-god/gods part and into the positive humanism section. He talks about ethics and Stoicism. One of the elements of a good and meaningful life he says is good relationships. This makes me sad because since deconstructing I have no friends. There are a couple who also lost their faith but they moved to the other side of the country. #Exvangelical
Reading “The God Argument” by A.C. Grayling. #atheism #Exvangelical
“Freedom to have a religion is not the same thing as freedom to impose it on anyone else.” —A.C. Grayling #ChristianNationalism #Exvangelical
11 years ago someone named Michael Beverly posted the following on Google+:
I'm convinced that deep down inside Christians know "in their heart" that it's all bullshit.
Proof:Â Â They don't live their lives anything close to what they claim their wonderful god asks of them.
They know that their real prayers, the deep heart felt longings, never come to pass (or very rarely and could be explained in other ways).
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I thought this was brilliant so I clipped it to Evernote. #Exvangelical
Growing up, humanism was a bad word. Self-esteem was bad too. But I needed self-esteem more than anything else. The idea that you are a sinner or an original sinner is a difficult one to get over. #Exvangelical
Growing up, humanism was a bad word. Self-esteem was bad too. But I needed self-esteem more than anything else. The idea that you are a sinner or an original sinner is a difficult one to get over. #Exvangelical
> The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right. Half–buried in the contradiction is the distressing idea that nobody is in charge, or nobody with any moral authority. The call to prayer is self-cancelling.
Christopher Hitchens, *Mortality*
#atheism #Exvangelical
Posted a blog I initially wrote 10 years ago in which I said, "I am an agnostic Jesus-follower." I don't think that description applies to me anymore but I wanted to preserve it for posterity and to help show my thought-evolution over the years. #Deconstruction #Exvangelical https://www.devlord.io/blog/2024/03/23/when-i-was-an-agnostic/
Interesting episode on escaping Mormonism from the great #podcast "Was I In a Cult" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mormonism-w-tal-bachman-hes-so-hiiiiigh-on-doctrine/id1582863762?i=1000649569717
The stories are good examples of how the more you learn about a religion, the harder it is to believe it.
Nice metaphor about being part of the "7 team" that believes 4+4=7. Then one day, you put 4 oranges and 4 oranges together, realize there are 8 oranges and can never again see it - but all your loved ones still believe 4+4=7. That's what becoming #Exvangelical is all about.