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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

Jun 14, 2020

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/

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jun 14, 2020

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

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

2:05 AM · Jun 14, 2020

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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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I feel the same. I keep reminding myself maybe it’s not as bad as it feels. That I’m just rubbing up against the extremes online

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I want to believe that but I don't think it's true. I really, really don't. I am on the internet a lot and I deliberately insert myself into a wide variety of far corners and this is alarming me more than other extremism I've seen.

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No, it's not, unless you define religion very broadly. I view religion as a self-sustaining cultural 'creature' with strong boundaries. It has to have a big distinction between them/us, it has to have a reproduction method (evangelizing, reproducing), and other things.

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Dear Aella, I read your posts, and started to agree, then realized that I might be entirely projecting and presuming, and didn’t actually know more specifics about what aspects you were feeling was so chillingly similar, so I thought I would ask for clarification. Thoughts?

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I don't claim to be good&virtuous but don't have tolerance for dishonest gaslighting. I'm tired of talking to gullible people who believe every lie they see on fox. It's not the bad opinions that bother me as much as the dishonesty that informs them. Reality isn't a cult.