Samantha Field

Adjacent, my MIL is a bleeding heart liberal but still goes to a conservative church. When the little old ladies find out I go to a church "downtown," they whisper, scandalized "one of those LIBERAL churches??"

Yeah, and where do *your* kids go, Barbara? Nowhere? Yup. That's what I thought.

My MIL reminded me of the "liberal Christians just want their ears tickled" turn of phrase, and it occurred to me that I've felt more challenged ("convicted") by my UCC-trained lesbian minister in the last three years than I ever was in two decades of fundamentalism.

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omg it happened

a rando accused my statement "homo sapiens evolved in Africa" of being a "religious belief" (we were not debating origins, so I was surprised)

I'm the Big Scary Evolutionist now

I'm so proud

The recent #Rapture nonsense has me reliving my Pre-Trib days and I'm cringing so hard at teenaged me

I stopped reading Left Behind because a book's cliffhanger was "This character either dies or accepts the Mark!" and Option A was too depressing and Option B was theologically heinous. So I quit. 🤣

Reddit post by Beach Pellini: If some men have nothing else, they will always have the audacity

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Not a lawyer BUT I am an #exfundie so I didn't have to Google "plenary authority."

Silver lining to fundie theology being constructed largely by lawyers and preached by people who think using archaic terms makes them Very Correct, I suppose?

That really sucks, I'm sorry.

Prioritizing moving to a place where I could go to church again (not the only priority, but one of them), has been a huge bonus for me. I hope you find what you need in a faith community.

That sounds like so much fun

Me, but silently because the one year old is finally sleeping

We got Hutchinson, we'll be ok

This will eternally be my favorite Christian doctrine Hot Take:

Jesus was trans.

If you believe in the Virgin Birth, then Jesus had no Y chromosome, yet lived and was treated as a man. He is a "man born with no penis" he tells his followers to accept and love in Matthew 19:11-12.

I have an urgent need to see Billy Porter in this skirt by Miss Sohee:

This will eternally be my favorite Christian doctrine Hot Take:

Jesus was trans.

If you believe in the Virgin Birth, then Jesus had no Y chromosome, yet lived and was treated as a man. He is a "man born with no penis" he tells his followers to accept and love in Matthew 19:11-12.

My toddler: Biting is just the language of the unheard, mother

Thought we covered the concept of "AI girlfriends" in the Myth of Narcissus in 8 ACE, but ok

So what's the pianist's version of "anyway here's Wonderwall"

and why is it Solfeggietto

Applied to a job I'm absolutely perfect for.

I hope they feel the same.

mine also sometimes will hand me fuzzy socks 😅

Seriously though when I saw Reacher without his shirt I was *viscerally. repulsed.* I was watching it with my partner and he laughed when I uncontrollably gagged. I've never liked "beefcakes" but Reacher made me ill.

oh it's nothing

just me, an ex-fundie homeschool girl re-reading *The Tombs of Atuan* and crying

So some Southern Baptists want to address "willful childlessness" in their role as the morality police.

Interesting.

Yknow someone who was willfully childless?

Jesus.

It's included in a lot of homeschool curriculum catalogues, it's listed on ChristianBook(dot)com, etc. People are still profiting from it.

"Daddy's Little Toy* got a woman arrested for creating CSAM and the characters in the books behave *more ethically* than the men in Elsie Dinsmore! The MC that Woods wrote waits until she's a full ten years older than Elsie was.

Just.

Yikes on bikes all around.

In the Elsie books, her father's best friend falls in love with her when she is SEVEN YEARS OLD. When she's eight he starts "flirting" (grooming), tells her to sit on his lap, etc. Her own father forces her to marry the man later on.

Those graphic descriptions of the main character as a child is presumably why Woods has been arrested.

But honestly I'm just again somehow astonished by Christian hypocrisy, because most fundie girls had Elsie Dinsmore shoved down our throat and it's the same $#!+.

Woods/Tesolin-Mastrosa uses the wispiest veneer of an excuse by starting the relationship when she hits 18, but there's graphic, erotic, fetishization of her as a toddler.

For those not in a bunch of romance and erotica writers subreddits:

Lauren Tesolin-Mastrosa / Tori Woods wrote "Daddy's Little Toy" and marketed it as a "dark" age-gap romance.... where the attraction starts when the girl is 3.

Three.

so who else is having Elsie Dinsmore flashbacks due to a certain arrest of that Australian writer today?

But here's the thing:

They know that they're in Congress to preserve and protect their *economic* power; their economic interests align with an authoritarian executive.

The stratification of wealth is making the downward spiral faster, but Madison started it.