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Me and a friend of a friend *talking about religion*
Them: Yeah, I was thinking of becoming a messianic jew.
Me: That's a cult. And cultural appropriation.
Them: don't generalise! And what do you know?
Me: I was raised in it. Judaism is a closed practice and messianic Christianity appropriated from it. It's a cult, don't join it.
Them: Don't generalise
Me: Judiasm. Is. A. Closed. Practice. And I was literally raised in it. I know more about this cult than you.
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Bruh, overheard door-to-door missionaries for the first time today, and actually felt like throwing up. 😠You think you're doing good at this whole Not-Having-PTSD™ thing, and then somebody says, "Maybe you should read John Teen-Number!" and you get yeeted into the metaphorically stratosphere.
I was reading a thread from the subreddit r/exchristians, asking, "what was it like, psychologically, being a Christian?" And jeeeez louiseus.
I wasn't really convinced that the congregation I grew up in was a cult. We never lived on a commune, or gave our church money. We didn't even have a centralized authority. It was just a small group of right-wing, radicalized fundies.
But. most of those people's experiences they mentioned weren't sheer terror and dread. They had logical, thought out reasons to be Christian. They did theology, or apologetics, or whichever. They went to public school, did normal holidays, had normal non-religous food restrictions. (if any.)
I don't really know where I'm going with this. I just. Feel reminded that my congregation was more than a little fucked up.
And isn't it weird? Isn't it alienating? To be in a (digital) roomful of people, supposedly from the same background as you, and suddenly realized that in so many ways you're nothing alike?
Christians: trying to use the Old Testament in an argument
Me:
I've gotta fucking say-- Christians who hoot and holler, "Out of context!!!" "Context!!!!! Context!!!" When you're verbatim quoting the bible in a debate/discussion/whatever are shitty Christians.
And not like, they're shitty people. (Though often, they also are.) No. They're shitty Christians. Like, bro. Why the fuck are you arguing the about bible, if you don't know the context yourself already.
Go back and sit your ass down at the kiddy table. I want to argue with the adults, thank you.
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Not sure how to articulate it yet, but the (often adult instated) idea that isolated and traumatized kids are just, "quirky!!" boils my blood.
We're not strange because it's fun. You locked us away and stunted our lives.
"Loving god"
I hope I never lose myself so far into dogma, that I can't see human suffering before my own eyes.
Why would people put a book before their own children? How could you look your own flesh and blood in the eyes, and knowingly hurt them? What is loving, about forcibly breaking someone down until they fucking can't anymore, just so you can fit them into the neat little role you've given them.
The whole thing is alien to me in a way that I'm weirdly grateful for. Because goddamn, if I start understanding them, I'll be a worse-off human being.
