baffling how much of this site is just conservative protestantism with a gay hat
you know what iâm in just enough of a bad mood that iâm ready to nail my grievances to the church door so letâs fucking go
black and white morality wherein anyone who doesnât believe/think/live exactly as I do is a dirty sinner Problematic and probably a predatory monster
everyone is a sinner Problematic but true believers people who activist the right way according to my worldview are still better than everyone else, and I will act in accordance to this belief in my own superiority to let everyone else know Iâm better than them because I found Jesus am the most woke
casual and fucking omnipresent equations of womanhood with softness/goodness/purity/nurturing to remind every woman who isnât/doesnât want to be any of those things that theyâre doing it wrong
aggressive desexualization (particularly of womenâs sexuality, to the point where it may as well not exist at all) accompanied by pastels [not a criticism directed ace ppl having a right to sex-free content and spaces but specifically targeted at a wider problem resulting from the previous point]
YOUâRE VALID AND JESUS LOVES YOU and neither of these platitudes achieves a goddamn thing
historical context is for people who care about nuance and we donât have time for either (see: black and white morality)
lots of slogans and quotes and nice little soundbites to memorize but does anybody actually study the source material with a critical eye to make their own informed analysis
the answer is no
Iâve been to bible study groups donât @ me I know what the fuck Iâm talking about
Good Christians⢠Nice Gays⢠donât fraternize with/let themselves be influenced by non-Christians those terrible queers
all the media one consumes must be ideologically pure or it will surely harm the children
it is Our Sacred Duty to protect the children from Everything, thus ensuring their innocence/purity/etc until such time as they are idk probably 25 years old
literally just âthink of the childrenâ moral panic yâall can fuckin miss me with that
people who donât conform to the dominant thinking WILL be excommunicated/driven from the social group, and any wrong treatment they suffer will be seen as a justified consequence of their wrong thinking
I Saw Goody Proctor With The Devil And She Had A Bad Steven Universe Headcanon
Thank you for breaking it down like that because so many of us have been saying it but to see a play by play breakdown comparison is justâŚThank you.
sipping tea and judging people as a group bonding activity
oh, man, speaking as a queer Christian who gets regular tumblr flashbacks to my childhood in the Bible Belt, YES
-belief that small snippets of text can be analyzed out context to understand the whole work/ judge the whole person -Desire for moral choices to be easy/ black-and-white leads to belief that it is possible to find a one-size-fits all answer to every situation -Literal, rather than literary analysis, with weird fixation on etymological roots that have nothing to do with source material -Belief that there is âone true interpretationâ that is self-evident and will be understood by everyone encountering the same material regardless of background -Overwhelming, internalized sense of culpability for other peopleâs actions/integrity/souls -Overwhelming, internalized sense of personal guilt -Pressure to evangelize aggressively -Tendency to value broad ideals before individual needs -Hostility towards coexistence/tolerance/neutrality -Hostility towards lack of consensus in viewpoint -Knowledge as contamination -Guilt/contamination by proximity -Fixation on the sexual as uniquely dirty/sinful -Belief in âthought crimesâ -Argumentation via appeal to higher authority/feelings of revulsion rather than internal, verbalizeable logic -âconversationsâ that are actually stealth soapboxes because one side isnât actually interested in listening -âpolite requestsâ that are actually commands because ânoâ is not considered an acceptable answer -in-group language -virtue-signaling and hostility towards the outgroup -gatekeeping -communities strongly built around the idea of being the worldâs underdog -appropriation of other peopleâs persecution/victimization -treating the concept of oppression like a trophy -glorification/fetishization of victimhood
It got better.
Bringing this back.

























