though i have no problem with the bulk of this, chrishedges.substack.com/p/truโ€ฆ i felt stunned disbelief with the initial paragraph

These self-proclaimed pastors โ€” very few had any formal religious training โ€” preyed on the despair of their congregants. They were surrounded by sycophants and could not be questioned. They merged fact with fiction, peddled magical thinking and enriched themselves at the expense of their followers. They claimed their wealth and ostentatious lifestyle, including mansions and private jets, was a sign of being blessed. They insisted they were divinely inspired and anointed by God. They were, within their hermetic circles of their megachurches, omnipotent.


it is hilarious to me that the writer apparently seeks to differentiate "ordinary" religions from "cults", when his excoriating cult description is ofc entirely applicable also to ALL religions. what an unfunny joke it is for anyone to assert or imply otherwise ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ

#USPol #TuckFrump #FuckRWNJs #magamorons #FuckChristoFascists #FuckAllReligion #OrangeOaf #HeyFascistCatch

#Atheism #fsckALLreligion #FsckChristoFacists #FsckSkyfairyDelusionists #FsckRWNJs #FsckThePatriarchy ๐Ÿ–• #Feminism #FreedomFromReligion #RemoveALLReligiousTaxPreferencesFromALLAspectsOfSociety #religion

@PinkNews all rightwing &/or otherwise religious nutjobs who subscribe to this conversion bullshit, are dumber than a box of gravel, & actively doing evil upon innocent others. fuck them to their various hells. ๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ–•

#GenderDysphoria #Transmisia #Transphobia #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FsckThePatriarchy #fsckALLreligion #RWNJs #FsckRWNJs #FsckChristoFacists #ChangeTheSystem #FuckAroundAndFindOut #Misanthropy #TransRepresentation #transwoman #transwomen #transkids

@SecularLobby religions are never so happy as when they're siphoning up public funds, molesting children, & interfering in politics

FUCK SKYFAIRIES:
#Atheism #fsckALLreligion #FsckChristoFacists #FsckSkyfairyDelusionists #FsckRWNJs #FsckThePatriarchy ๐Ÿ–• #Feminism #FreedomFromReligion #RemoveALLReligiousTaxPreferencesFromALLAspectsOfSociety #religion

@abc_bot good on these ladies! ๐Ÿ’œ๏ธ that's what empathy, insight, & unconditional love looks like

otoh, my... someone who i thought loved me... reacted initially with surprise, then shock, then disgust, then anger, then... complete rejection. along that path were statements that i made her feel sick, & that i might be a paedophile & she'd report me to the cops if i'd done something to our kids ๐Ÿ˜ฒ ๐Ÿคฏ

i love it that there really are happy loving stories out there. they're just hard for me to endure, which i 'spose is selfishness & meanness by me, albeit unintended

go well, Kate and Marti ๐Ÿ’ƒ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ƒ๏ธ

#GenderDysphoria #Transmisia #Transphobia #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FsckThePatriarchy #fsckALLreligion #RWNJs #FsckRWNJs #FsckChristoFacists #ChangeTheSystem #FuckAroundAndFindOut #Misanthropy #TransRepresentation #transwoman #transwomen #transkids

@skedarwarrior it's ok, & thank you for admitting that. just fwiw, fyi, given you acknowledged unfamiliarity in this area, the reason i reacted with some vehemence is that the form of words you used happen to be a common line of attack wielded by despicable RWNJ christofascists as part of their non-stop war against peeps like me. they assert the lie that gender & sex are identical, that therefore by definition there is no such thing as a trans-peep, & that any who claim otherwise are merely making a choice, a "lifestyle-choice", analogous to choosing to eat an apple today or go to the beach tomorrow, a free-will choice. they deny [based on zero knowledge but maximum hatred] that we deserve any rights or protection, coz, again, they assert dishonestly that we are not simply just "us", like a left-hander is simply just being themselves, but instead that we simply make a fatuous disingenuous choice. ergo, many trans peeps react rather adversely when we encounter anyone talking about "choice", even if as in your case it was not done maliciously, coz we fear the commencement of yet another deranged RWNJ attack. fyi. @cstross

#GenderDysphoria #Transmisia #Transphobia #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FsckThePatriarchy #fsckALLreligion #RWNJs #FsckRWNJs #FsckChristoFacists #ChangeTheSystem #FuckAroundAndFindOut #Misanthropy #TransRepresentation #transwoman #transwomen #transkids

@sbs_bot

And also the importance of data - we need data. We need to know where trans and gender diverse people are

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not on your nellie. my home is my sole bastion of safety on this miserable rock, & i am not willingly gonna disclose such info, coz then... i have nothing

#GenderDysphoria #Transmisia #Transphobia #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FsckThePatriarchy #fsckALLreligion #RWNJs #FsckRWNJs #FsckChristoFacists #ChangeTheSystem #FuckAroundAndFindOut #Misanthropy #TransRepresentation #transwoman #transwomen #transkids

did / do the editors believe that pap like this actually helps we in the wider trans community, those of us who are not beautiful people, who visually do not pass, we whose physiognomy sadly entirely makes any dream of stealth impossible?

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/31/international-transgender-day-visibility-trans-tv-film/

if you think that #TheGreatUnwashed will be won over to stop hating & hurting trans peeps by misleading propaganda like this, how then do you expect them to react once faced with the inevitable reality of encountering "ordinary" trans peeps in daily life who do not look at all like these glamour pics?

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#GenderDysphoria #Transmisia #Transphobia #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FsckThePatriarchy #fsckALLreligion #RWNJs #FsckRWNJs #FsckChristoFacists #ChangeTheSystem #FuckAroundAndFindOut #Misanthropy #TransRepresentation #transwoman #transwomen #transkids

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