Discovering What Happened

Side blog about religious trauma and growing up in and out of one mennonite cult and a whole bunch on non cult churches (mennonite, baptist, nazarene, brethren, evangelical, pentacostal, and amish but like mixed with mennonite not straight up amish) my main blog is crykeepgoing

[whatshouldwecallchronicillness]

"But doesn't suffering make you a better person?"

[oldfatwarlock]

Say what you will, but Satan never threatened to burn me alive forever for not loving him.

[t-oriand]

being an ex christian is so stupid because the guilt follows u in such weird ways. screwed up at work today, guess i should be shot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[epicsause-official]

as a cis guy, when presented with the "99% you get a ton of money, 1% you turn into a girl" it honestly would be dumb to not hit that button until it breaks. like ok now i have 100 bajillion dollars and gender dysphoria. big deal. i have all the money in the world to turn me back into a guy. like with that kind of money i could have obama do me a phalloplasty. he wouldnt be able to do it as he isnt a surgeon but the point still stands

[go3dprinting]

So. What kind of soap do they use in brainwashing?

[findingmyowntruth]

Hogwash

[stuckinapril]

Have that pathetic crying session. It will save you

[godmechanic]

(tone of complete and utter exhaustion) this is the day that the Lord hath made

[floofshy]

Christ dying for our sins would be more impressive if he didn't require an explicit opt-in from the end user, instead leaving the default at "Go to hell". Like he is God, and yet he seemingly can't create good UX.

[explodingsilver]

#demanding praise for implementing a janky workaround to a bug that is his fault and that he left untouched for ages#sounds about right for a creator

[poetrylesbian]

obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"

[ritavonbees]

this totally scans for a swear intensifier btw. what in the gluten free christ is going on here, Julia

[baddywronglegs]

I Can't Believe It's Not Jesus

[winged-thinged]

Actually, I have a really complicated relationship with the word “love” because of how christians twist and redefine it. They say, “love isn’t a feeling, it’s an action,” and I might agree with them, except that what they actually mean is, “love is doing what I think is best for you, despite or even against your own wishes.” They mean, “love is coercion” and “love has no boundaries” and “love needs no consent.” They mean, “I know best,” they mean, “I won’t listen,” they mean, “I will hurt you if I think your behavior, your being, your nonconformity justifies it, and I will tell you it’s for your own good.” And everyone’s a sinner, so everyone, in a sense, is fair game. But most especially the heretic, the lapsed, the queer, the addict, the slut, the nonbeliever, the racialized & criminalized & poor. They say, “god is love,” and “god knows best,” and “I am god’s hands.” And they say, “god loves you, whether you want it or not.”

[sharkodactyl]

moment of unspeakable beauty today when one of my coworkers called another coworker "judas" for not splitting a can of white monster with her, and i got to watch the guy who sits next to me open a new google tab, type in "jeudis," and say quietly to himself "french thursday...?"

[anxeious]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Alexithymia is fun. I want to eat a burrito and go to sleep at 3pm so either I am suffering some sort of big emotional distress or I just didn't get enough sleep last night. One of those things.

[anarcho-smarmyism]

it's good that we're saying "i don't feel guilty about pleasure im not Catholic" but we also need to start saying "i don't feel self-righteous about being overworked I'm not Puritan"

[peppermintquartz]

[bitch-of-the-blade]

Sorry for being a complete slut lately, I think I'm making up for the years of my life being told that I would go to hell if I got off, which made me afraid that some omniscient being was watching me. So excuse me if I have a distrust of Christians and spend a lot of my free time thinking about personal pleasure and self-care. I'm being de-programmed.

[iamthetruestrepairman]

women’s bodies weren’t “made” to do anything, nature didn’t “intend” anything, no human action is “unnatural” and there is no inherent “purpose” to a human life

[iamthetruestrepairman]

people weren’t designed to do anything because they weren’t designed at all. Hope this helps 🤩

[ellegreenrat]

when anyone (usually a man) becomes obsessively religious later in life, I assume they've done something despicable and they're trying to avoid any accountability. My source is that religious men are the worst people I've ever met.