Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸20h ago

I saw a white evangelical basically screaming at the camera yesterday on YouTube about patriarchy, racism, capitalism, and SA, ready to split from every Christian, even the progressive ones, and while I disagreed with some of her minor points and her shouting gave me a headache, I'm emotionally so with her.

Would that even 25% of white women had even a portion of her intensity and self-awareness.

#exmo
#exmormon
#ReligiousTrauma
#antiracism
#deconstruction
#LDS
#Mormon

Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸21h ago

🎶 Genealogy: Are you "doing" it? 🎶

Or are you just listing names and dates so you can nonconsensually force your dead relatives to conform to some arbitrary standard of perfection in the afterlife?

#exmo
#exmormon
#ReligiousTrauma
#antiracism
#deconstruction
#BYU
#LDS
#Mormon

Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸21h ago

In Mormon news, BYU tried to make an indigenous student cut his braids. So fuck them.

Thankfully, they responded to pushback and now will not make him do that, but I'm sure they will continue to get away with all of their other attempts to control the hairstyles and harmless behaviors of literally everyone else.

(Which is why this issue is a "white" cause as much as it is anyone else's. My Celtic and Germanic ancestors wore long hair in all sorts of styles, and so did yours. Whiteness restricts all of our freedoms.)

#exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #exvie #exvangelical #antiracism #deconstruction #BYU #LDS #Mormon

Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸2d ago

It's weird. I had a feeling I was going to win. Just this little joking voice inside me.

I figure the odds were in my favor. There probably weren't too many tickets in there.

I think I spent $5 on two tickets.

#ReligiousTrauma #Idaho

Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸2d ago

So you'll never believe this. I won the raffle. I entered for the $50 gift basket. So a really great investment for me! And I hope those kids have fun on their mission trip and learn more than the people they're going to teach.

#ReligiousTrauma #Idaho

Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸Mar 13

I accidentally enthusiastically gave money for a mission trip to Costa Rica today.

I thought it was a school thing. Outside the hardware store, kids selling hot dogs and raffle tickets. What else was it going to be for?

But I'm in Idaho, sigh.

I love being in Idaho, and I've gotten comfortable here. Being white, a cheerful smile goes a long way. People here are very friendly.

They are also very Christian of the unexamined supremacist type, and I sometimes forget that. I've learned to safely navigate the culture here, but they're still trying to impose it elsewhere.

I hope they have fun on their trip, and I hope they learn more about the wide world than they manage to teach about their narrow one.

#ReligiousTrauma #Idaho

Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸Mar 13

There were the lies of Christianity, which infected western culture with the lies of colonization, which infected naturalists' minds with the lies of intellectual superiority, which infected modern scientists with the lies of scientific colonialism, all of which hid the fact that all along, many, if not most, of the tribes of the Americas were far more rationalist and empirical than Europe.

My experience of Buddhism is the same. At its core, Buddhism values truth based on empirical evidence. These are not ideas that were invented in the west, and the western scientific method is only one such method among many.

What is hopeful here is that after millennia of trying using all their technological might, western colonialists have failed to completely stamp these cultures out.

Ideas are alive, and they do not die so easily.

#ReligiousTrauma #decolonization

Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸Mar 13

TIL about the Piraha people of the Amazon, whose language makes it impossible to convert them to Christianity.

In fact, a missionary attempting to convert them in the 1970s ended up deconverting after experiencing their culture.

https://youtu.be/innTGsOCuJw

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Why Christianity Hates Indigenous People

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harriehqMar 12

Alone. Completely alone.

I wish I had someone I could really, actually talk to.

Sometimes I miss my therapist, but then I remember how she would get uncomfortable and respond, "well I'm a Christian" when I would start on MAGA and Christian Nationalism contributing to my existential depression…

And am I going to find a therapist in fuck-nowhere-Kansas with different views? Nope.


#adhd #autism #audhd #cptsd #religious-trauma #depression #isolation #exhaustion #grief #rejection #broken
Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸Mar 9

I'm watching a horror movie in a purity culture setting called Pure. It's fairly good, really liking how they're handling the themes. I feel like it's personal for the director, who's a woman.

It's not a perfect movie. Feels like the director doesn't have much experience with the horror genre. But there's strong talent, just a little raw on the skills, small things that would have made it better.

I still haven't seen the ending. There are some ways I want this to go, and some ways I really hope it doesn't go.

(Previous twoot is not a direct quote, but sums up a speech the pastor is giving.)

[edit: ok that ending was super powerful. We need what happened there to become a recurring motif.]

[Director is Hannah McPherson. She didn't experience purity culture, but is real mad about it. https://deadline.com/2019/09/pure-director-if-youre-not-pissed-off-you-may-be-a-lost-cause-1202742568/ ]

#movieReview #horror #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #feminism

‘Pure’ Director: If You’re Not “Pissed Off”, You Might Be A “Lost Cause”

Hannah Macpherson and Blumhouse Productions have a provocative new horror film, "Pure," that delves into father-daughter purity proms.

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