let's talk about deconstruction

Jenn. 26. queer. agnostic atheist. deconstructing evangelical christianity.

[letsdeconstructreligion]

A little introduction

Hello! My name is Jenn (formerly alias Jay). Welcome to my page!

A little about me:

She/her

26

Queer

Atheist

Former missionary and evangelical Christian

Home schooled

Pro-Palestine

Safe space for all!

Please refrain from proselytizing on my page. You will be promptly removed.

Updated May 2024

[animentality]

[theshoesofatiredman]

Idk I think Job's wife really went off when she told him to curse God and die. It's interesting how there's no oxygen for her suffering in the narrative. She lost her children too. She lost her home too. Her health was taken from her too. Everything she had was stripped away by God. And yet there's no compassion for her. Not in the narrative nor in the commentaries or the sermons. She isn't even named.

[yenvengerberg]

CHAPPELL ROAN Attends the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards September 11, 2024

[audreyrosepromise28]

I wouldn't be so pissed at Christianity if it wasn't for indoctrination. Religion should be something that you choose and when you're literally a two-year-old sitting in church you can't possibly choose it, you can't possibly understand the gravity of the cult that you have entered. You'll listen to the sermons you'll read your Bible you'll sing the songs you might never question what you're doing or you might only question it 30 years later, either way it's a big deal and you should be able to make it informed choice instead of having your choice taken away when you're a child.

[necropolis144]

i think one of the funniest and most annoying things i was taught as a christian is that we have free will wow so cool! but also predestination is a thing and basically that means that before you’re born god decides whether you’ll come to him or not. so you should try to convert as many people as possible but also god already knows which’ll get into heaven. and you have the freedom to choose to follow him except he’s already decided where you’re going after you die.

the predestination shit basically strips you bare of any agency in your own life, it’s confusing and contradictory and probably my least favorite part of the belief system i grew up in because of how fucking stupid it is.

[pipsqueakevie]

i'm not religious anymore, but there's some things that still linger in my mind about adam and eve.

how was eve supposed to know she was being lied too? having never been lied too before, always around people she trusts, alongside her god, her creator, someone she could've potentially considered a father; never having known a parental figure.

how did adam feel when he and his wife, the only other human he'd ever known and loved, was cast out with him because she'd never been lied too? never been tricked like that before?

how did they feel when eve had her first menstruation? when she started bleeding, experiencing an unexplainable pain in her stomach?

how did they feel knowing their god, their creator, wouldn't help them? wouldn't explain it as anything else besides as a punishment for being lied too and being deceived so easily.

how did adam feel knowing he couldn't help his wife, couldn't find anything to help her with the pain and the bleeding she was putting up with?

how did they both feel knowing that they were the first parents, knowing they'd never fully grasp the concept because they themselves never had anything of the sort?

knowing that now, their children were likely to suffer because god's sacrifice and payment was blood.

they'd both witness it first hand, and they were helpless to stop it.

[winged-thinged]

Look, we joke a lot, but really, "you were born evil, wretched, worse than the scum of the earth, and it took killing a god to make you salvageable, so now you'd better be grateful to that god and thank him 10,000 times a day for it and fill your thoughts with him 24/7 and abide by the letter of his every word, lest you suffer unimaginable torture for all of eternity" is a truly horrendous thing to believe about yourself and other people

[winged-thinged]

Christian moral teaching feels very immature to me, and maybe that's because it's something I believed when I was younger and have since grown out of, but I think it's also a product of the apocalyptic view of it all. Your moral reasoning is just going to be very limited if you perpetually think the world is about to end. Why bother saving the environment? Why plan for the future? Get martyred. Sell all your possessions and live with the poor. Some things sound good on the surface, but then you have to live with the choices you made, and the world isn't ending, and suddenly you actually have to deal with all the nuances of a conversation that can't be summed up in a pithy scripture quotation.

[winged-thinged]

It just lends itself very nicely to simplistic, black-and-white views, and doesn't handle practical strategizing very well. And while there is a time and a place for decisive action, you need to be able to live in the world, too.

[jwapostate]

atheist not in the sense that I don't believe in god (I don't) but in the sense that even if there was evidence that a higher power existed, I'd be so opposed to the idea of worshipping it I'd rather die

[phoenix-reburned]

Hey other people raised by young earth creationists who want to learn actual science and be taught the real facts behind scientific theories should check out Forrest Valkai's YouTube channel. He teaches the fundamentals using videos from YECs to disprove the common talking points and does so in such a fun and easy way to understand! Even now in college I'm still working to learn a lot of the stuff I was lied to about as a child and he's been a big help in answering my questions.

[rachelleacomics]

[annasinthewalls]

I will never seek the approval of a god. If a sentient godlike force exists, their sins infinitely outnumber mine.

[an-shu]

For a person who has religious trauma I sure do love religious imagery

[audreyrosepromise28]

IF GOD REALLY WANTED TO FORGIVE US THAT BADLY THEN HE WOULD JUST FORGIVE US.

You're telling me this Almighty being created everything in the universe and created us and knows our hearts and our souls every detail of our lives and he wants to be with us for eternity more than anything else, and yet there are rules and conditions to his forgiveness? He's an unlimited unknowable being, he's everywhere and sees everything, he tells us to forgive people around us, (above all we need to forgive everyone no matter what) we're supposed to give forgiveness out freely, completely unrestricted, and you're telling me, HE cannot-

GOD, cannot extend that same forgiveness to humans?

What kind of immensely powerful God endlessly loves us but makes it such a conditional love?

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

[hopesanddreams15]

"I was raised Catholic," he began. "But you're not now?" the judge asked, frowning. "No," he said. He had worked for years to keep the apology out of his voice when he said this.

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life