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Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸Feb 12

🎶freedom's just another word
for nothing left to lose🎶

#solarpunk #exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #exvie #exvangelical #USPol #Antifa #resist #humanism #atheism

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Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸Feb 12

There definitely seems to be a vibe shift. From powerlessness and helplessness to empowerment and determination

I'm not the only one. And it's not just here on Mastodon.

Nothing is forever. No trend continues ever upward. We're learning the skills and fortitude we need. We're self-organizing against the shape that collective trauma has forced us into.

This too shall pass.

Then imagine the world we'll be able to build with the momentum.

#solarpunk

#exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #exvie #exvangelical #USPol #Antifa #resist #humanism #atheism

Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸Feb 12

Inspiring.

#exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma
#exvie #exvangelical #USPol #Antifa #resist #humanism #atheism

https://youtu.be/WfM_KhzxAwo

My Childhood Cult Took Over My Country

YouTube

David Cervera Feb 11

If you're journeying through a faith crisis or faith deconstruction - I'd love to connect. I offer specialist and relational therapy for this painful life transition and would love to connect. https://www.davidcerveratherapy.com/
#faithdeconstruction #faithcrisis #faith #christianity #exvangelical #church #therapy #uk #mentalhealth

David Cervera | Faith Deconstruction & Religious Trauma Therapist UK

Specialist online therapy for faith transitions, LGBTQIA+ identity, family boundaries, and parenting after religion.

David Cervera Therapeutic Counselling

Daedalous Eros Feb 11

I've decided to add "exvangelical" to my identity cocktail. I grew up as a Christian in the Assemblies of God. I'm fortunate that the church I grew up in specifically wasn't nearly as batshit insane as more mainline Evangelical branches, and to be fair I definitely benefited some.

But the Christianity I knew died with my childhood pastor. And the religion still caused me harm with nightmares of the Rapture, always neurotically looking for signs of the end, hearing some loud noise I couldn't identify and needing to check that my parents were still there; that I wasn't "left behind."

I wasn't quite as afraid of hell as I was fascinated with it, which tracks for me; I've always had a grotesque interest in Cosmic Horror. It felt more distant than the rapture which allowed for that detached fascination.

I was also a worse person for being a Christian. Of course it was wrapped up in Conservative politics too, so I was, for the longest time, a "concerned" transphobe (ironic that I now identify as nonbinary). I of course thought abortion was murder and I talked like a fucking idiot because I was propagandized from Day 1.

What finally broke me was learning I'm queer. From age 15, I struggled with the Christian stance on queerness, and tried to justify it with the mistranslation excuse or the fallibility of the men who wrote the Bible. But by the age of 19, I had to come to terms with the fact that no matter what the Bible says, CHRISTIANS overwhelmingly do not support queer people, and the majority of them are hostile to us.

Which lead me to question: did I even believe in God? What conviction did I have? And I recalled Revelations 3:15-16:

"I know your works; you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were either cold or hot. 16 So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth."

And that was the final straw, the passage that finally extinguished my dwindling faith. In my younger years, I was passionate and "on fire" as they'd say. I couldn't get enough, I wanted to know more, I wanted to know God, but despite my fervor, I had not a shred nor scrap of an experience that I could definitively say was God and could not be anything else. And so my conviction died, and to me, that passage told me it was Biblically correct to stand before God Almighty as an honest Atheist than a lukewarm Christian. And I left.

As the years went by, I began to realize all the ways that Christianity still colored my worldview. I began to dump everything I was ever told and reevaluate my every stance and opinion, piece by piece, brick by brick, deconstructing the worldview of my former religion. I felt like I was seeing upside down despite knowing that, for the very first time in my life, I was finally seeing clearly.

1/2 #exvangelical #deconstruction

MindTGap Jan 29

"Voter rolls and original ballots stolen.Why was the director of National Intelligence there?????"

#deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news #TulsiGabbard #dni #VoterRolls #Midterms #ballots #MonteMader #FBI #shorts #FBIraid
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jlKz-_-k1ts

Voter rolls and original ballots stolen.

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Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸Jan 28

And about a year, (I'll have to do some birthday math) I will have been out of the Mormon church for as long as I was in.

#exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #exvie #exvangelical

Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸Jan 28

I have finished my final draft of Sexcommunicated!

This is, oddly, within two days of my 25th anniversary of deciding to be done with the LDS Church for good, on Jan 26th 2001.

Natasha Helfer, my client, has lined up a publisher! Her and the publisher will do the final edits. It should be a printed book within a year or two. I will have co-byline.

That's about all the details I'm authorized to release.

Sexcommunicated tells the story of Natasha's life, her journey towards becoming a sex therapist, the splash she made in the Mormon world with her therapy blog in 2012, and the events that led to her excommunication in 2021.

I will keep you updated on publishing news as the manuscript rolls through the process.

#exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #exvie #exvangelical

MindTGap Jan 28

"There’s a reason that they are trying to put turning point USA chapters in every high school.
They're also trying for every college in the country. And it’s the same reason that the Clock app doesn’t mind shutting down some of its biggest creators and losing millions of followers. Because the adults in the room are not their target."
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EHAgiwzkcDk
#deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news
#MonteMader #tiktok #turningpoint #hitleryouth #ChristianNationalism #larryEllison