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Me: I forgot the word "sermon" last week. I was like there is a word for the lecture the pastor does in church, what is it?

Younger brother who has been an atheist since he was 15: That's how it starts get out of that mindset.

Me: Nah, it starts when you don't automatically pray when stressed.

Brother: Oh, yeah, I never did that.

Two types of ex-Christian

#ex fundamentalist #ex christian #religious trauma #ex fundie #ex religious #ex evangelical #apostasy #apostacy #apostate

Study On Religious Trauma in College Students

Hey. You might know me as someone who posted frequently in the religious trauma tags. Well now I'm conducting a study on religious trauma in college students, and I need help. The first part of this study is a survey on how religion influences different aspects of one's life. Questions range across different themes that are understood to coincide with religious trauma. Subjects are asked to rank the level of intensity and positivity/negativity of the influence of religion on different parts of their life. The survey is 100% anonymous unless you wish to provide contact information for a possible interview.

The survey will close by the second week of March. Any and all help and responses will be appreciated! Even if you can’t respond to the survey, please reblog if you can/want.

This survey is a part of a larger study on religious trauma syndrome in college students. However, this data is meant to primarily assess th

Today's religious trauma coping strategy:

When you are forced to study for the obligatory religion classes that you had no way of avoiding, put on circus music.

With this expert strategy you can:

Avoid some of the intense, dreadful seriousness that it is associated with.

Set the mood. If you're made to partake in this, you might as well have appropriate music.

Have something to remind you of the clowns that created all of this and also the ones forcing you to relive all of the trauma

It also comes with the added bonus of a sense of victory, provided by your tasteful and dignified mockery of the very thing that broke you in the first place.

Live on, fellow heathens. And don't forget! Therapy is a useful next step.

#religious trauma #kind of joking but kind of not #it actually helps #ex muslim #ex christian #ex religious #apostacy

Perhaps I shouldn’t take it so personally or pay much attention to it but I can’t quite shake the disgust I feel for the lengths Christians will go to utterly demonize atheists/apostates and strip us of our humanity and dignity. These people hate us and for what? For simply not believing? For questioning and putting their claims to task? For leaving religion? Apparently reducing people to caricatures and regarding them as subhuman is permissible so as long as it is done in Jesus’ name. Hate and abuse is permissible in Jesus’ name I guess.