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I used to volunteer for a Christian homeless outreach program. Giving out food donations, gently used clothes, prepping and giving out hot meals, such and such. The leader would also preach to the people waiting in lines for their next meal, before they were allowed to get it. Some people would come later when the sermons were basically over. And, I remember him essentially shaming them for it, bc how could you just come for your physical nourishment and not your spiritual nourishment?

That’s manipulation. That’s guilt tripping. No one should be forced to listen to your drawn out babble about God when they and their children are starving.

humankind created god, not the other way around

you are god

In my personal experience, i’ve heard of women around me with undiagnosed disorders get called “possessed” and sent to priests and other religious figures, meanwhile men get the luxury of mental healthcare more often.

"No one cares about men's mental health" is such a lie when women are massively underdiagnosed with just about everything else except "hysteric" cluster B disorders and everyone's up in arms when men go rape kids in war and come back with PTSD but no one has cared about prostituted and abused women's trauma since the beginning of time and there's so many girls and women with ADHD and autism who never get diagnosed because they don't fit into the male-centric diagnostic traits

Hearing the story of Abraham & Issac really fucked me up as a kid. The actions of the adults around me made it clear that they'd kill me if God told them to.

Happy Tears

it’s so isolating being an ex muslim, i left islam for my liberal values and trauma only for a lot of people on the left to coddle islam and defend it from any criticism while ex muslims are still being killed, tortured, honour killed by their own family, it was very disheartening to see that the side that says that they are “here” for the people who are suffering to constantly demonize ex muslims and their trauma and suffering and actively create a hostile environment against them and then they wonder why some ex muslims turn to the right, cause they listen to them even though they may know that they are probably nothing but a token they still will be there cause they think that the right hears their criticisms and suffering.

I can understand that a lot of fellow leftists don’t want muslim folks to get attacked for simply having their faith or wearing hijab, but apparently for most of them, it ended up being translated to “we’re not allowed to criticize islam as a religion.”

I wish we can separate attacks with criticism because the latter is very necessary. I can absolutely talk about how islam, like other abrahamic religions, can teach some very harmful things and become a tool for the justification of violence, without attacking people who happen to only hold some parts of the faith that doesn’t include the bigotry. (Or without attacking people in general)

it’s so isolating being an ex muslim, i left islam for my liberal values and trauma only for a lot of people on the left to coddle islam and defend it from any criticism while ex muslims are still being killed, tortured, honour killed by their own family, it was very disheartening to see that the side that says that they are “here” for the people who are suffering to constantly demonize ex muslims and their trauma and suffering and actively create a hostile environment against them and then they wonder why some ex muslims turn to the right, cause they listen to them even though they may know that they are probably nothing but a token they still will be there cause they think that the right hears their criticisms and suffering.

it’s so isolating being an ex muslim, i left islam for my liberal values and trauma only for a lot of people on the left to coddle islam and defend it from any criticism while ex muslims are still being killed, tortured, honour killed by their own family, it was very disheartening to see that the side that says that they are “here” for the people who are suffering to constantly demonize ex muslims and their trauma and suffering and actively create a hostile environment against them and then they wonder why some ex muslims turn to the right, cause they listen to them even though they may know that they are probably nothing but a token they still will be there cause they think that the right hears their criticisms and suffering.

"If God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job." -- Carl Sagan

photography by AJ Hamilton ✧

Christians hate when a gay man goes “fuck it, I’ll gladly go to Hell if you want me to so bad” because it takes the edge away from their tools of fear. If they can’t scare you with threats of eternal damnation then one of their main weapons is taken away.

most of the time I think my religious trauma doesn't bother me anymore

last year I took a creative writing class

I had my narrator take the lord's name in vain once or twice

(I like to do it, now. now that I can.)

I didn't think altogether too much of it because my story wasn't about god at all

it was just about guilt guilt guilt

but my professor called attention to the way my narrator said god when they were angry

"almost like prayer," he said

almost like prayer.

christians love saying people have victim mentalities but the second u push back they become martyred and crucified on the cross itself, you're the meanest worstest eviliest awfullest person and they are but a poor persecuted most villified christian

i feel like having religious trauma from mormonism is so fucking lame. like at least other branches of christianity have cool imagery like rosaries and stained glass windows. wtf am i supposed to romanticize, Joseph Smith? Family home evening? That one very specific painting of Jesus that every mormon knows?

Socializing with non-apostates is odd. Like they're just chilling and meanwhile your internal monologue is like

I need to tell you immediately it'll never come up please ask more questions it doesn't matter you think I'm a freak you don't even care I need you to understand it's impossible to explain I was raised in a cult I'm literally so normal.

thinking about it, part of the reason the "you were never a christian" accusation hurts is because of how much i wish it was true

Jeanie Tomanek, Assumptions

im literally forever obsessed with this because it implies the following:

The Rapture, as described by Christian Evangelicals, has happened

Parents witnessed their son disappear during The Rapture, but remained atheists anyway (based)

Instead of sinners and nonbelievers going to hell or getting killed, they just... stay on Earth.

In the country i live in, christianity is not the dominant religion, and it’s pretty crazy how the christians always mention religious freedom when another religion tries to convert them, yet the same people would then go around harassing non-christians and trying to convert them.

The worst part is they always target people who are at a low point in their life where they’re desperate and vulnerable. Not surprised though, the bible basically told them to force others to convert under the belief that they’re “saving” people from the eternal abyss of hell or whatever.

I also find it weird how hypocritical they are in general and not just on this specific manner, like how they cherry pick which rules to follow on the bible, like not getting tattoos for example and then they go off wearing mixed fabric (which is apparently forbidden.)

I think it’s weird how there’s a double standard when it comes to atheists. So if i tell a religious person that i’m atheist, they’ll start interrogating me about my life. They would just assume that my atheism is because of some trauma that happened to me.

And then they would assume that atheists know everything about the universe. They would show you a phenomenon or whatever and tell you to explain it. And if you don’t know, they’ll think it’s a “gotcha” moment. Yet they allow it when people who identify with their religion barely know anything about it.

Like you can’t expect an atheist to debate with you anytime. We’re not omnipotent. We don’t know every single thing about the world, just like they don’t know every single thing about their religion. They’re holding us on a higher standard. And the reason is obvious.

At that moment, your mom almost had a moral conscience. Sadly, the religious brainwashing was way stronger. Sorry you had to go through that.

Religious conservatives love talking about trans people “mutilating their genitals” and then go off to circumcise their children without their consent 😇

For me it was moral perfectionism, i would constantly feel like i'm evil and immoral. I would sometimes become a doormat and let others push me around for the sake of that sweet, sweet, moral high ground. And back when i was religious, i would cope with others pushing me around by thinking "they'll be going to hell anyways".

Open discussion: has anyone dealt with perfectionism that most likely came from years of religious trauma?

catholics be like “don’t be horny kids” and then bombard you with images of half naked men tied up to things 

Religious conservatives love talking about trans people “mutilating their genitals” and then go off to circumcise their children without their consent 😇

apple bottom jeans — this is a reference to the apple that was eaten from the forbidden tree of Eden

boots with the fur — this references the way Adam and Eve had to clothe their nakedness once they had eaten from the Tree

the whole club was lookin’ at her — traditionally it is Eve’s fault for succumbing to the temptation, and most scholars blame her and future women for original sin

she hit the floor — this is a reference to the snake, who was cursed to crawl in the dust

next thing you know — the Lord immediately responded to kick them out of the Garden of Eden

shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low — this represents the way humanity fell from grace and gave in to temptation, and was repelled from the garden

I’m really coming to loathe these “you don’t hate religion, you hate Christianity” posts. 90% of the time whatever bad practice is under discussion is at least substantially prevalent in large parts of Islam, and often in Hinduism and some of the more reactionary strains of Buddhism and Judaism as well.

Misogyny and homophobia are not unique to Christianity, nor are blind dogmatism or violent intolerance of other faiths. Christianity is certainly responsible for the lion’s share of religious oppression in America, but as it turns out there are places in the world that are not America.

Private celebration in my bedroom during a voice call with friends ended when i got forced to attend church for the new years. How memorable. What a terrific way to start the new years. Please do keep preaching about eternal torture while everyone else is having the time of their lives.