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- exvangelical- she/her terfs & bigots beware 34/married/bi this is a place to dump all my thoughts on religion, fundamentalism, and cults in popular culture. and complain. ✨ follow me on youtube & tiktok @cultbookclub✨

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Also shoutout to Olivia Plath for speaking up about this, I think it goes a long way coming from her since she's a very recognized public figure. She's such a breath of fresh air in this whole fundie shit show so often and never misses with her responses.

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It's come across my desk that Timcel is a fucking wife beater. I'm watching the Fundie Fridays video about it and literally shaking with anger.

First, I do also believe that David was abusive because of course he was, these fucking men always are, that's why they're attracted to this type of ideology in the first place. David you musty crusty gap tooth motherfucker if I ever catch you you better hope all I have is a baseball bat.

Second, Heidi's mom's response was well said but made me physically ill when she talked about those pictures. My heart is absolutely broken for Heidi, she is so young and a new mom and to think of her having to go through that at the hands of that corny ass bitch Timothy makes me feel insane. I know it's probably hard to think of being on her own with 2 kids but I really hope her family and friends can convince her that she has the support to get her through and to not go back.

Obviously many of us have assumed there's some kind of physical abuse going on in the Rodrigues household just because of everything about them, it's sickening to finally have confirmation of it though. Like always, if you think these motherfuckers are up to something, you're basically always right, these systems are only designed to uplift and protect disgusting abusive and controlling men.

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Jrod wearing a 2 piece full sequin outfit to Tessie’s graduation was…something. I give it 1-2 more graduations and Jill is just going to go up there in a wedding dress.

Jill seems to love the attention of a stage walk so much that in another timeline, I think she would’ve been a beauty pageant contestant and then a pageant mom living vicariously through her daughters

I'm catching up with fundie stuff at the moment and just seeing this fit in all its glory for the first time 💀

I'm speechless, it's just so fucking Jill 😭 tacky, attention seeking, unflattering. Just prime Jill Rodrigues.

I totally agree that in another life she's a toxic stage or pageant mom in Alabama lmao. One that her daughter eventually goes no contact with and has to talk about in therapy.

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Are u alive?

We all out here missing our fave tumblr girl!

I am alive ❤️ thank you for checking lol. work is kinda chilling out, slowly. Hopefully I'll be around more in the next few weeks

I'm catching up with fundies rn and this Instagram story from Jill that immediately begins with a loud phone notification is really sending me:

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Apparently Samuel Rodrigues is courting a girl named Evangaline. Jill just posted it all over her social media

Did Jill delete her posts with her already?? I don't see any recent ones

According to reddit, she's one of these girls and also IBLP:

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I just saw a post of Jill doing skin to skin with baby Jillie and I’m ready to call it a day at 8:45am because what the fuck? Parents doing skin to skin, absolutely! Siblings, I think less common but still acceptable! GRANDMA JILL??? Who has never (that we know of) done this with any of her other grandchildren? My skin is crawling

My conspiracy theory is she convinced Kaylee to be her surrogate and is going to claim New Jill as her 14th child 😭

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I'm watching Fundie Fridays May update video to catch up since I have a free-ish weekend, and she just mentioned that apparently the oldest Baird son has also come out and talked about how he was abused by someone within the Independent Baptist circles 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

PEDOPHILE FACTORY pedophile factory pedophile factory like I genuinely cannot express how much pent up anger I have about this shit. These systems were literally only created to benefit ABUSIVE MEN and it's so obvious but they still exist and are legal and ughhgswedcgok I just can't express my frustration accurately.

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I'm also seeing that Katie Clark confirmed that her therapy is directly responsible for confronting her family about the abuses she suffered as a kid (of unknown nature but I know what we're all thinking with these fucking people). I guess she's also said in a Q&A that she intends to stay with her therapist for a very long time 😭🙏🙌

That's the positive takeaway from the whole Travis and even Joseph situation for me tbh, I'm not sure obviously if the Joseph stuff is connected. But it feels impossible to me that seeing these men she probably trusted keep being revealed as abusers over and OVER and OVER didn't trigger something for Katie, regardless of the nature of her abuse. I'm glad she's distancing herself from the enablers, I wish her so much luck and you know what, if Travis is participating in the therapy situation and helping her with this, ok whatever go off Trav. Temporary forgiveness for me, don't push it.

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I'm watching Fundie Fridays May update video to catch up since I have a free-ish weekend, and she just mentioned that apparently the oldest Baird son has also come out and talked about how he was abused by someone within the Independent Baptist circles 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

PEDOPHILE FACTORY pedophile factory pedophile factory like I genuinely cannot express how much pent up anger I have about this shit. These systems were literally only created to benefit ABUSIVE MEN and it's so obvious but they still exist and are legal and ughhgswedcgok I just can't express my frustration accurately.

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JILLIE they named their baby JILLIE??? oh my god

I never understand why people think Kaylee is so different and is one of the more likely kids to get away from their cult, to me she's always seemed the most like Jill, or at least like the one who vibes with Jill the most (regardless of if Jill vibes back), idk. she's in so deep, imagine naming your daughter after an uber judgemental, hateful, raging narcissist.

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Unfortunately due to the proximity to the Duggars, I think a lot of her audience's minds will go the same direction when speculating.

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I am so behind, oh my god..........

This makes me genuinely sad for Katie, but of course the Bates are the "shove it down and don't talk about it" kind of fundies. Good reminder that despite the shinier exterior they are just as bad as the rest.

I wonder who the 10% is that she still has contact with ☹️

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did you guys see those emails Josh sent to Jim Bob and Michelle calling them out for being bad parents 😭

I'm trying desperately to find a video to share about it, I've always wanted to see a Duggar kid tell off Jim Bob, I'm just mad it was fuckin Josh

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I stare out across the fields waiting for spurgiecousin to return from the war

sorry y'all 😭 the crazy busy job lead to another crazy busy job and it's a very different vibe for me tbh, I actually enjoy doing the work *and* the work is basically endless so it's up to me to find a balance and I haven't yet. every single hobby has suffered and they makes me SAD so hopefully it will all settle down once I find a balance

I definitely still am interested in fundie stuff and have no intentions of ditching tumblr, just going thru some growing pains atm! Love y'all

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Damn Nurie really is becoming just like her mother. Kaylee’s baby shower was yesterday and today Nathan announced Nurie’s 4th pregnancy. She couldn’t wait another week and let Kaylee have some spotlight time?

One thing about fundies is when they get to the point that multiple families are just systematically popping out babies, there is no such thing as spotlight lol or care to give any particular person dedicated attention like most pregnant women would expect. It's just like, everyone gets their 30 seconds to announce and then you're expected to just go about your crazy life as you normally would until you're a few minutes from birth. that's all the spotlight you can hope to get especially once you're already married and have at least one kid.

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End of an era: reddit is forcing me to make an account and get the app if I want to do anything at all on reddit and not just lurk so I guess that’s it for me being nosy on fundies on there (and using reddit for anything else tbh) 🫡

Damn, I didn't even know it was possible to do that without an account lol RIP. but if it's anonymity you're worried about it is possible to keep your reddit account very anonymous, they're kinda designed like that by default.

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reddit has had a theory that Paul and Morgan are living apart at their respective parents' houses and it's kinda looking like that might be the case 👀 (the green cabinets are not from Porgan's house):

So these are screenshots from recent videos they've posted:

And these are the cabinets from their house:

Now I think they did say their lease was gonna be up soon so maybe this is because they just didn't find a place in time? But they've been talking about that for a long time so it feels crazy that they wouldn't have been able to find another rental property in their area.

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Speaking of AI Jesus Trump.

Have the rods said anything ?

I'm probably not the best person to ask, it's only been in like, the last 24 hours that I've felt like I can pay attention to Jill again LOL. I go through phases with the Rods where I'm either very very curious what they're up to or want nothing to do with them, and I'm just coming off a few months of wanting zero to do with Jill especially.

That being said though I scrolled pretty far down in the Rodrigues subreddit yesterday and didn't see anything, and that kinda tracks for Jill to just ignore all of his blasphemy for some reason. She's just that much of a bigot and a racist and a sexist I guess because if a democratic president even sneezed during a prayer she would write them off as heretics.

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I’m dead at Nathan just giving Nurie a high five after she blows out her candles. My brother in christ you’re married and reproduced with her 3 times, I think you’re allowed to kiss her at this point in the relationship

😂 I laughed at that too, that is SO fundie of them to have a "first date" vibe after they've created half a kindergarten together.

What's worse is he does kiss her later, after giving her a tiara (to which Jonathan says she should wear to church and everyone laughs way too hard) and it's the same kind of vibe. Very sterile.