You know why Christians think being gay is wrong? They have a framework. Men and women are meant to reflect a symbolic structure of responsibility and union, as seen in the church and god's relationship to man. Procreation is very important. Gay relationships are a perversion 1/
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The parallels between my cultish, evangelical homeschooled upbringing and the discourse I'm seeing going on in public mediums right now is chillingly similar. I am freaked the absolute fuck out. We're descending right back into the judgmental, intolerant shithole we came from. 4/
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And guess what - judgmental, intolerant shitholes *do not feel like that from the inside*. They feel good and virtuous. If you think 'no, this isn't a descent into a judgmental ignorant shithole because it's good and virtuous' then this only INCREASES HOW FREAKED OUT I FEEL
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And to be clear - there's lots of other discourse out there around topics I vehemently disagree with or find absolutely harmful, that are *not* engaging in this terrifying religiosity. This religiosity is a new, viral beast and it's taking over like early Christianity.
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Well you never said what group feels like the cultish Christians so which group is it?
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One parallel that is particularly concerning to me is how most of this new religions truth claims are unfalsifiable, like many religions before them. You cannot refute their claims because the phenomena they base their ideology around is shrouded in a priori mysticism.
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I'll guess - people who believe in equally regardless of race or gender? Oh those dastardly egalitarians!
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I think this is a good way to put it. And the puritanical insistence that you MUST accept the symbolic framework without question makes it difficult even to have a civil discussion about it.
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