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🧵1/This thread is for anyone born/raised, indoctrinated into extreme Christianity.
Lying in bed last night, I checked in with myself and realized that I've been living in an intense, overwhelming desire to flee, to get the fuck out and away, not to a specific place, just away.
Lying in bed last night, I checked in with myself and realized that I've been living in an intense, overwhelming desire to flee, to get the fuck out and away, not to a specific place, just away.
2/ The last 6+ years have been intermittently like this for me - feeling rage and helplessness, reliving terror, knowing the inexorable conclusion, and trying to sound the alarm as I watched the Christian nationalists foothold in our government and our country steadily increase.
3/ Growing up in the same ultra fundamentalism that has brought us to this moment in history, I experienced everything that comes with literal biblical interpretation - the extreme misogyny, homophobia, racism, the utter disregard for anyone the church felt was less than.
