i grew up conservative, evangelical, homeschooled, in SC. I was 16 when Obama was first elected. I was terrified. it never felt like this.
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I remember the conspiracy theories. The panic and the fear. I bought into them. I wasn't stupid...I was just like everyone around me.
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I thought I was right. I thought I was chosen. I remember the things I believed that dehumanized others enough to justify those beliefs.
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The thing was, I had a lot of excuses to not care about people who weren't like me. Everyone around me did. They looked like me.
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Caring about people who aren't like you? That's hard. It fucking hurts. Always.
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I never felt anything like the fear I feel right now for the other people in danger as a result of the new regime. It was never like this.
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the thing is - and I know not all christians are like this, but I was - what makes you care about other ppl when the world is going to end?
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why befriend people of other faiths when they're going to hell? why worry about climate change when Jesus is coming back any day?
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I was chosen. We all were. Anyone who didn't acknowledge that was wrong, and deserved to be proved wrong.
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the whole point, even with the scary fire and brimstone, is to let you cling to bedrock certainty that God's will is done
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