#EVANGELICAL

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[longreads]

Creation of Woman: Evangelical and Transgender in the Bible Belt

"I opened his underwear drawer to put the laundry away and noticed a flash of color and lace toward the bottom. My stomach jolted." 

In our latest feature, Lane Scott Jones navigates gender identity against the backdrop of the Deep South.

Read it here. 

[actiwitch]

Hot take, apparently, but genuinely harassing or insulting anyone's religion is not ok.

Criticizing religious institutions, proselytizing, extremism, or horrible behaviors/beliefs done in the name of a religion? YES! Totally. That should be criticized.

Unpromptedly popping up on random posts by religious folks to say anything along the lines of "god isn't real", "the pagan gods are fake", "there is only one true religion", "[any religious group] are stupid/dangerous/barbaric" -- NO.

It's rude. It's unnecessary. And sometimes, especially in the case of minorities or oppressed groups, it's outright hateful. Theres nothing helpful, funny, or cool about randomly insulting one of the most personal aspects of a persons life. Unless it's invited or warranted, stfu.

[liberalsarecool]

Not drag. Not trans. Nope.

Religious white cis male. 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

[thejewitches]

Let’s build strong interfaith solidarity by refraining from appropriating Jewish rituals.

Here are a few more ‘arguments’ that we didn’t include, but feel we should head off… “But Judaism is the root of Christianity”. We are a living, breathing people and our traditions have continued to live and thrive despite Christian oppression. These traditions came after Jesus and are not for the taking. “But Jesus was the Passover Lamb!” That’s a Christian tradition and has nothing to do with us. There are many beautiful Christian traditions. Go celebrate them. Enjoy them. No need to take ours.

Make sure to share and if you see someone having a Christian seder, educate them!

[adayinjune]

I'm looking for more Christian blogs to follow, so if you post Christian content, please engage with this post!

[campgender]

So the revenge part is things like this, and things like — actually, like, having conversations with evangelicals, and not being polite, like, not playing by the rules of politeness.

Because I think a lot of us, when we deconstruct, we have this sense of, “this is just for me, I’m doing this and I’m not telling you what to do.” And I know I felt a weight for a long time of like, “I don’t wanna be — I don’t wanna ruin anyone else’s faith, I don’t wanna be responsible for that, I just don’t wanna do it.”

And now, in its simplest form, to be revengelical is to be like, “No, I do actually wanna ruin your faith. I do, actually. I’m fine with being partially responsible for your deconstruction. Because I think, like — once the fear of hell is gone, like, that just changes the game. That just changes your whole, like, outlook on things…

No, I know how you think. I speak your language. You don’t speak mine, you don’t understand where I’m at, but I know the tricks of the trade. We know how to trip these people up. We know where all the plot holes are. But, like, out of politeness, we don’t point them out. But I’m like, what am I afraid of? Like, I don’t believe in hell. So I can’t be sending you to hell — so why would I not disrupt this?

Because we think, like, “oh, that’s so rude” — no, the rude thing is that we were all just living our lives, and then at some point somebody came along and said, “Hey, you’re wicked. You are depraved. And you need a savior.” And you’re like, “I’m eight. What did I do?!” Like, that’s, that’s the mean thing! There’s nothing meaner than evangelicalism. But then we feel like, “It would be so mean to take that away from them.”

Janice Lagata’s Revengelicalism

as discussed on the Hello Deconstructionists podcast

[dclanisms]

losing my religion

[angelx1992]

[dg3zero]

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[thepersonalwords]

I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.

Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

[gramarobin]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman." -- H.L. Mencken

Example:

[thejewitches]

The Green family are notoriously against every one of our values and they put their money where their mouth is. CUFI is not the only massive corporation that is funding Christian zionism in the USA. Corporations like Hobby Lobby, which have philanthropic arms and are subsequently funding the ‘charities’ of those who reap the profits of the corporations are extremely present in our landscape.

For those of you who follow our Threads, you’ve already seen today’s discussion…But for many of you, this is brand new.

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