This article examines how high-control religious groups use religious freedom claims to bypass State child-protection laws, often leaving children vulnerable to systemic physical abuse.
@canadaduane It doesn't really take a great approach though. God inflicts the suffering, suffering and obedience in this life are the answer to ending suffering after *death*, and suffering is the central sacrament.
Buddhism says suffering is an unfortunate but unavoidable fact, suffering isn't the same thing as pain, and that suffering comes from attachment. This gives us some answers for reducing suffering for ourselves and others.
Christianity (via Mormonism)
never taught me *how* to be companionate. In fact, its examples of how to be compassionate were actually just lessons on how to be sales force for the church. So it centered the goal of ending of suffering around getting people into the religion that worships suffering.
My first inklings of *how* to feel compassion came from a single Buddhist meditation where he walked me through finding a helpless animal in an alley way and caring for it. It centered care, not suffering. I don't see a lot of Buddhists actually seeking out suffering or telling people they deserve it. They know it's already there, and move on to better pursuits.
I've learned more about how to be a healer from a couple of hours per year of listening to Buddhists than I learned in 20+ years of 20+ hours a week I gave to that church.
Anyway, time to stop making fun of Easter and get back to suffering in terrible guilt that Jesus suffered in terrible pain so that anyone who obeys the father won't have to suffer but everyone else is a terrible bad person who gets to suffer for eternity! Yippie! What a joyous, wonderful time of the year!
Gay dad has a forceful response to a 7-year-old who called gay people ‘the devil’
"Iran did not need to blockade the Strait of Hormuz; capitalism did it for them. The market looked at the risk, did the math, & shut the door using actuarial science - The Devil's Math"
I've missed Step Back. Today's history/CE lesson :
https://nebula.tv/videos/stepback-whats-happening-in-iran-is-so-much-worse-than-you-think/
Also on shite site youtube, if you must
#Nebula #Iran #warcrimes #DeadBirds #TrumpWar #CapitalismKills #capitalism #religiousTrauma
The CIA coined "blowback" about Iran in 1954. 72 years later, a peace deal was on the table and the president chose bombs instead. The history, the economics, the money trail, and who actually benefits from a war that didn't need to happen.
#Immaculate is one of those #movies that you should watch this #EasterWeek.
Nice practical effects (like the old times) and good #BodyHorror.
IDK how it does to capture the essence of the #CatholicChurch in a so #exquisite way.
Easily a 10 of 10.
#movie #streaming #cinema #HBO #HBOMAX #Horror #HolyWeek #ReligiousTrauma
Christianity primed white people to feel guilty when certain Pavlovian bells ring.
Accused? Wrongdoing even subtly implied? Guilt! Shame!
Then, if it's a respected authority doing the implying (be it parent or priest), we're primed to submit.
If we don't respect the authority of the "accuser," well, were primed to see them as the enemy in the all-or-nothing good vs evil war. "My authorities haven't called that a sin so who is this person anyway??" And we lash out. At women, POC, queers, disabled, and often, even ourselves.
What, you're white but never were Christian? Sorry, but you were programmed this way, too. (If you feel mad at me, that's the programming.)
Christianity's way out from guilt and shame is impossible. It doesn't work. It's designed to make you feel forever ashamed and in debt to Jesus — or rather, the religious authorities who represent him. That's how they get you.
We aren't allowed to emotionally mature to know how to handle our own feelings when we've done wrong. We're forever dependent children on the religion. We go to confession, do the penitence, feel a few days of relief, then go back to feeling guilty. No matter how well-meaning any particular clergy, this is by design.
Now suddenly here's these people I don't respect out of unexamined implicit bias dumping more crap on me.
Aren't I bad enough? Haven't I submitted enough? What am I supposed to do about it?
I'm hamstringed. My white brain has been lobotomized wrt how to handle this. But also, I've been told by trusted authorities that I'm not a racist, so I'm not!!! Out comes the Karen.
Colonialism=Christianity=Corporatism
It's all the same system.
Freeing ourselves from this system means freeing those whose oppression we enable.
Because it's all the same thing.
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #antiracism #antifa
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
🎶 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
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
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸
Front Page
Lady Artemis
Daniel Retana