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criminallyunconscious · 6 months ago

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damn that’s crazy lol

something that's really been bothering me lately is how the church i was a part of would like... repackage doctrine to make it sound nicer and more acceptable. like, the belief that all humans are evil by nature and deserve eternal torture for the crime of existing is inherently violent and cruel. but my church didn't frame it like that. they framed it as "yes we're ALL evil and wicked and we ALL deserve hell to atone for our sin (being human) BUT god loves you despite you not deserving love or happiness or anything good at all and all you have to do to avoid the pits of hell is accept jesus as your savior isn't that so amazing????" and they framed the crucifixion as this beautiful, selfless act of god by taking our place on the cross instead of "this all-powerful being who created all the rules decided that he required torture, death, and human sacrifice to be able to tolerate us". and it's not "women will be viewed as lesser than men" it's "women must submit to their husbands the same way we all must submit to god it's not dehumanizing it's holy and yes women have different roles but that doesn't make them lesser than and sure we don't have any women in leadership positions in the church and we would never even consider it, come on now that's ridiculous, but that's just because men are supposed to lead because men and women are different and created for different purposes it's just biology". and there are plenty others! i know that the reframing of everything is part of how they can even get people to accept the doctrine in the first place, but being on the outside of it is kind of horrifying. when you get down to the actual beliefs that are held without the distortions and manipulation, so many are violent, cruel, dehumanizing, abusive. but they distort and manipulate these beliefs to make them seem acceptable, morally correct, and redefine what love is and should look like.

#ok my church experience is fucking wild tho #cause like #I went to a fucking HOUSE CHURCH #for five years !!!!#the people that were the most controlling of it were all IFB and had come from a Baptist church #They claimed not to be IFB but totally still acted like it #we met in houses for like four years #And then when that went to shit and there were 17 people we met in a fucking HOTEL CONFERENCE ROOM #and then when COVID HIT all of us started going to another church #This church was primitive Baptist #as opposed to reformed Baptist which we kind of were #and anyway #after a year of that and the technical dispersal of us 17 #my family started going to a “”quote unquote community church #baptist but supposedly nondenominational #all that to say #I feel like a lot of nondenominational churches #at least in my area #are Baptist in theology but don’t want to be associated with the stodginess of baptists #and after two years of that Community Church(tm)#I finally gave the fuck up and left #shit hit the fan tho cause my family still goes there #in fact #last night #my family had fucking small group at our house and I didn’t know so I was stuck on my room for four hours listening to them it sucked ass #but I just played Nintendo and read a book so it worked out I just had to make a run for it if I wanted dinner #long ass rant in the tags babes #sorry

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