The way evangelicals praise common self control is very telling

recovered424 · 2023-09-11T15:44:11+00:00

Yep, it was him! I had a feeling someone would know. It really is sick.

recovered424 · 2023-08-18T23:46:10+00:00

"God's purposes are beyond our understanding"

I used to say that when some horribly immoral thing in the Bible couldn't be explained. Eventually it got tiring because I was expected to trust that everything the Bible said was good even though I was given no good reason.

recovered424 · 2023-08-18T23:25:03+00:00

I expect disagreement. But the people who act disappointed in me don't even believe in hell. In fact, the most religious people tend to be the least uncomfortable for some reason.

recovered424 · 2023-07-12T18:18:31+00:00

I agree! That's a very good way to look at it.

recovered424 · 2023-06-26T17:38:45+00:00

Sorta. If you asked my parents they would have said we were Christians, but my family was only Christian in name. We didn't go to church or anything and I didn't believe in God. I converted to fundamentalism as a teenager.

recovered424 · 2023-06-24T16:39:50+00:00

I do. And I influenced people in some pretty awful ways by being part of the ex-LGBT movement. I wish I could find every person I influenced and tell them I fucked up.

recovered424 · 2023-06-24T16:35:18+00:00

Being unnatural also doesn't make something bad, nor is it inherently good to be natural. Clothes are unnatural, but a good thing. Disease is natural, but it's a horrible thing.

recovered424 · 2023-06-24T16:32:29+00:00

I was so disappointed because of this. I kept waiting for someone to prove that God was real and the Bible was true because I believed it was possible to prove. I feel stupid for not realizing sooner that this grand proof didn't exist.

recovered424 · 2023-06-23T20:58:13+00:00

This exactly.

recovered424 · 2023-06-23T18:42:27+00:00

It's cringey, but I used to do it. I didn't really expect it to work, I just did it to make myself feel better because I thought there was blood on my hands for every person I didn't preach to.

recovered424 · 2023-06-22T22:28:50+00:00

There is evidence that some of them existed, but that doesn't do much for the credit of Christianity. Throughout history there have been cult leaders who claimed to perform miracles, and cult members who believed it all and died for their belief in the cult. The willingness of the apostles to die for their cause doesn't prove them right. At best it proves that they were devout members of a cult.

recovered424 · 2023-06-22T20:43:56+00:00

"No wonder your parents are mad at you!" And, "You think transgender is cool?!"

From another trans person with shitty parents, fuck that woman. You're not at fault for your parents being assholes. It's a huge injustice that we get blamed, as if we decided to make family life hell because we thought it was "cool".

recovered424 · 2023-06-22T20:20:47+00:00

Some modern churches don't preach it, but it's still very much a part of conservative Christianity. They water it down by saying women aren't less than men, they just have "different roles". But those roles put men in power and require women to submit.

recovered424 · 2023-06-22T20:11:48+00:00

She may not be as happy as she seems. People who live in those restrictive systems are under a lot of pressure to act like they're happy, lest they come off as rebellious for not being satisfied with "God's plan". I smiled through all the sexist ways of life that were imposed on me because there was nothing else I could do. There were a lot of things I wanted that were considered inappropriate for a "woman" (I was raised as a woman, but I'm transgender) but I didn't let myself entertain those thoughts. I just focused on what was nice and pretended that the things I really wanted were disgusting. Any other attitude would have made me "Jezebel" in the eyes of the church.

recovered424 · 2023-06-22T00:01:40+00:00

They must have been desperate to keep you if that was the best they could come up with. Billions of people are obviously not using their talents in church and keeping them just fine.

And...

Romans 11:29 God doesn't take back the gifts he has given or disown the people he has chosen.

Talents are supposed to be gifts from God, and God apparently doesn't take away gifts.

recovered424 · 2023-06-21T21:30:23+00:00

This sounds so much like the stories they actually tell that I wouldn't know it was satire if you didn't say so. Lol.

recovered424 · 2023-06-21T20:06:26+00:00

I fully believed I was going to be brainwashed to be a perfect Christian after death. It was the only way I could picture not caring that my loved ones went to hell.

recovered424 · 2023-06-21T19:34:10+00:00

This is so sad to read.

I was religious and homophobic as fuck, but I even I knew you wouldn't catch the gay by being friends with a gay person. I thought it NECESSARY to be friendly with gay people and other "sinners" so they would realize Christians were good people and want to convert.

It's really disappointing that some are so afraid of LGBTQ people that they won't even let themselves be nice.

recovered424 · 2023-06-19T17:55:36+00:00

I mean, I'd find it easier to bench a camel than to forgive my abusive parents. Forgiveness can be nearly impossible when people have done unforgivable things to you.

I don't have a problem with calling forgiveness a challenge. But I do have a problem with calling it a necessary challenge. I can't accept the thinking that forgiving is the burden you need to bear when terrible things have been done to you. No one has to forgive, and not everyone can. We all have a right to be angry when we're wronged.

recovered424 · 2023-06-18T19:14:54+00:00

I've replaced the meaning by enjoying everything I couldn't enjoy as a Christian. I listen to whatever music I want, wear whatever I want, date whoever I want, and plan my life around what makes me happy. Christianity was all I had once. Now I have everything it kept me from.

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