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life_she_wrote
For some of us, today never had the impact it was supposed to. As children we didn’t understand why we were supposed to reflect on a violent gruesome death, being
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Chrissy Stroop
C_Stroop
Growing up in a high-control religious group generally means being denied a proper education, having a warped understanding of sex and gender thrust upon you, and lacking protections against abuse.With
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Chrissy Stroop
C_Stroop
And speaking of hate mail, would you all mind helping me out by reporting the latest Amazon "review" of Empty the Pews for abuse?The "reviewer" (and I use the term
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Retired teacher: pro student rights = all students
Willow_B_Well
Don't discount manipulation, abuse just because someone is technically an adult or a male. #MenTooVulnerability, immaturity and powerful religious figures with friends in the highest office make saying no a
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Chrissy Stroop
C_Stroop
TBQH this is not super interesting, but I'll give Rev. Empsall this--he knows white evangelicals aren't worth trying to reachMaybe his group will be able to move a few white
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Chrissy Stroop
C_Stroop
Let me extend a friendly welcome to all you new followers who found me via my latest article, "Authoritarian Christians are Deliberately Undermining the Public Health Response to Coronavirus"https://conversationalist.org/2020/03/27/authorit
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Angie Jay
AngieJayHuman
"Die to yourself." They taught that in the church so fiercely.I guess I should have expected remnants of that message to carry over for those navigating the roads of #Exvangelical
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Chrissy Stroop
C_Stroop
1. So, everybody’s been reading @Peter_Wehner’s article “The Deepening Crisis in Christianity” in @TheAtlantic, and quite a few people have asked for my take. Taking it easy in Spokane the
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Hill Country Exvangelical
HC_Exvangelical
*Heavy Sigh* This chucklehead, Couy Griffin is from the town I was born in and grew up in. I know folks in his family. This is my roots. This is
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Chrissy Stroop
C_Stroop
Sobering analysis. Soviet and post-Soviet Kremlin policy has been made in conjunction with the notion that there’s no real democracy, only useful manipulated appearances.As with the Right at home, Putin
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Chrissy Stroop
C_Stroop
1. As yet more Jerry Falwell Jr. scandals come to light, I've decided to do a thread of everything I've ever written about him and Liberty University in the context
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Thirsty Librarian
thrstylibrarian
I've been thinking more on my childhood in evangelical churches and, specifically, on certain programs used by the Assemblies of God to program children according to a set of repressive
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🖖 Christian Janeway 🖖
XianJaneway
Grab your coffee, folks, bc we're about to have a LONG thread w/an object lesson in1) Cognitive Inflexibility2) Conservative propaganda3) Gender perception & attitude in conservative (esp southern conservative Evangelical)
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McJulie is writing the next book
mcjulie
Spoiler: the article questions whether this is a good thing.https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article250562629.html "the decline of religion in America has a huge downside.In a post-truth worl
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Chrissy Stroop
C_Stroop
1. Attention people of Twitter, ladies, dudes, and enbys, children of all ages (ok actually not for kids)! Embark with me on a journey into a bizarre parallel world often
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Chrissy Stroop
C_Stroop
Closely related to the evangelical taboo on “gossip” is the intense pressure evangelical authorities put on subordinates—incl. parents on children—to be “positive.”It’s common even among those who don’t embrace the
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