I don’t often celebrate a death…but in Dobson’s case, I’ll make an exception. This old white man, and others like him, are/were a scourge, filled with righteous hate for all those who aren’t exactly like them.

Wayne Besen, the director of Truth Wins Out - an LBGTQ+ advocacy organisation that often sparred with Dobson - said in a statement that he "used faith as a cudgel to bludgeon vulnerable communities, spread disinformation and inject toxic bigotry into the bloodstream of American culture". #evangelicals #christians #ConservativeChristianity #religion #hate #bigotry #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4kqy44djo

James Dobson, influential American evangelical leader, dies aged 89

Dobson was considered a key spokesperson for conservative causes in US politics over several decades.

Thinking about when the dorm supervisor at my conservative Christian university told me I needed to "remove the poster of the naked man" from my wall.

It was a poster of Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" that I'd picked up in Vatican City the previous summer. 🙄

me: he's not even sexy! 😫 😆

That was another life, for sure.

#exvangelical
#ConservativeChristianity
#ChurchOfChrist
#PurityCulture
#ArtAppreciation
#NudityIsNotPorn

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The Lost Art of Scripture - Karen Armstrong. need i say more? maybe about how we got so literal about faith? hopefully didn't bite off more than I can chew. I'm constantly wondering about my growing up in #conservativechristianity and what pushed me out and keeps others in. She and #Ehrman have really helped a lot.

#religioustrauma #exchurch

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As the United States prepares for the end of a nightmarish one-term presidency that seemed to drag on forever, Americans continue to unpack the January 6 insurrection that now even soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell admits was “provoked” by President Donald Trump. On January 16, NBC p

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