CW: sexual abuse

When I was 7 and we made our annual visit 20 min up the road to see my grandfather/step-grandmother, my 6yr old half-aunt asked me what we did at my church.
I told her about the naked game where I had to take my clothes off and 1/2
then stuff happened. She asked how to play it and I said you had to take all your clothes off and so we did but then I got sad and my chest hurt so we got dressed again and I asked what she did at her church.

And that’s how I got a beating for learning to pray the rosary. 2/2
Venturing back near this thread - this is one reason why I'm completely for Dr. @C_Stroop's take on "There are no fake Christians."

My parents were believers in Jesus, were baptized, read the Bible daily, attended church 5-7x a wk, tithed - and definitely believed that 1/
Jesus was the only way to Heaven.

At some point, people need to get it through their heads that you can absolutely be a devout Christian - *and* that doesn't mean squat about what kind of human you are. 2/
Also, I'm all outta fucks, so anyone speaking in defence of their particular brand of Christianity will be redirected to whichever particular sordid abuse/rape/financial scandal their denomination is currently covering up. 3/
If you can believe that the head of the Southern Baptist denomination is a Christian, then you better not even TRY to use "fake Christian" in my presence. /fin

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11 Jan
Time to do this.

CW, y'all, this one is going to be dark.

Long, dark, painful - mentions abuse/rape/trauma/child & pet abuse/death.

Avoid if you can't deal w/that or severe religious descriptions in this moment - it's ok to skip and take care of you <3 1/
I want to talk about who I saw at the Capitol on the 6th. And by "who I saw" I don't mean "I literally saw him in the crowd" - as far as I know, I don't think he was there.

But I saw him there, over and over and over again, in the faces of so many people in the footage.2/
I'm talking about my Dad.

Depending on how you know him, he's different people.

To some, he's the nice nurse anesthetist, coming in to talk to you before your surgery, assuring that you're in good hands & you'll be safe. He'll put you to sleep & check in on you in recovery. 3/
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9 Jan
Fun fact: I spent my childhood years in a church influenced heavily by the Message.
For those not in the know - William Branham, giver of the Message, was the “prophet” who ordained Jim Jones and got his ministry going.

1/
I’m sitting here tonight with the fact that Rep. Speier was attacked twice - once by people who followed Jim Jones, and once by people heavily influenced by the pastor who was *too racist for Jim Jones*. 2/
I’m not overstating my case here.

Anyone you know who is any sort of Pentecostal, Charismatic, non-denominational has been influenced directly by Branham.

Some don’t believe it. At least 85% of them do, though. 3/
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ExFundie here.
All of this, plus:

Bedtime stories were Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Expectation that if we survived the "oncoming persecution" we'd go to hell because TrooChristians get killed for jeezus.

"Prayer Walks" around the city to "claim the territory for Jesus". 1/
Engaging in "spiritual warfare" on the regular - my exorcism survival rate is 100% out of 7, and I still have the "demon of rebellion" that makes me "think I have the right to speak out like a man." 2/
Repeated conferences and strategies for grassroots organizing to "take back the country for God".

Sermons on how "The New Israel" must "take the land" and "despoil the Egyptians."

3/
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Spent a blissful few moments this morning visualizing what I'd like to see happen to @senatemajldr - and even @SpeakerPelosi after her "$600 is a lot of money" comments - but mostly, honestly, to all the GOP who have enabled and caused this current crisis. 1/9
I don't want jail time for them. Not even a single day.

Instead, I'd love to see them stripped of all sources of income, and their bank accounts distributed equitably starting with the lowest-income tier first.

Then, 2/9
Their retirement funds should be taken away - ill-gotten gains while an entire nation got repeatedly forked over are certainly not theirs to keep. So those, too, should be distributed to those most in need. After that, 3/9
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#ILeftBecause of several reasons, actually.
*CW* ABUSE/TRAUMA

Reason One: My broken arm, broken neck, broken jaw (multiple times!), broken nose, ruptured eardrums (multiple times), burns, and scars from torn flesh were, in fact, NOT "what god says you deserve for being evil". 1/
Reason Two in the #ILeftBecause saga -
I was not damaged goods because my father raped me.
I was not a seductive Jezebel because the evangelist groped me.
I was not ever "the strong woman he needs to be in ministry so get back w/your attempted rapist". 2/
#ILeftBecause Reason Three:

I refused to believe that God required me to never use my brain, to never voice my opinions, and to never contradict a man because of my vagina.

I wouldn't marry a man I could manipulate nor one too stupid to listen to a woman. 3/
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This is me, 17 years ago almost to the minute.

I was being induced because of pre-eclampsia...after 16.5 weeks of increasingly problematic measures to keep me from delivering, thanks to going into pre-term labour at 20 weeks. (A thread) *CW:Abuse & pregnancy details*
Yes, I said 20 weeks. I was under a lot of stress at my job; they had a policy of firing pregnant women, and I'd been fighting that quite illegal discrimination.

So I wound up in hospital at 20 wks, contractions every 4-12 minutes, dilating, effacing, etc. 2/
I'd miscarried once before, and was finally pregnant after years of trying.
The first 20 wks had been spent continuously on antibiotics, with a permanent UTI, and breakthrough bleeding and repeat scares every couple of weeks. 3/
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