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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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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jun 14, 2020

of the good order of things. Christians believe in this framework, complete with terms and concepts that make no actual sense if you pay really close attention but are culturally discussed like real actual things, so much that it feels like an obvious, default way of life. 2/

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Guess what other group is developing a big symbolic framework with a bunch of terms and concepts that feel obvious (that they expect you to educate yourself to the 'correct' way) and default (that it's intensively normalized in the culture)? 3/

2:05 AM · Jun 14, 2020

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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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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jun 14, 2020

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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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jun 14, 2020

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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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.