This reminds me -- I thought I already wrote a thread about this, but I couldn't find it. When we talk about the various threats to reproductive rights going on in this country --
We often talk about how we're going to BECOME the "Republic of Gilead" from The Handmaid's Tale. My thesis is that we ALREADY ARE the Republic of Gilead.
Similar to where we are on racial justice & equality, sexual justice & equality is a thing we never ACTUALLY ACHIEVED before the fascists started pushing us to go backward.
Yes, things can get worse, because they can always get worse, but we never actually became NOT a patriarchal dystopia.
Only a member of a patriarchal dystopia that regarded women as property would even THINK about instituting something like this PA thing.
Women are able to vote and drive cars and stuff, so we don't THINK of ourselves as being a patriarchal dystopia, like Saudi Arabia, but we are. It's just unequally distributed, which is how dystopias always work.

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26 May
I'm working on Book 4 & just typed something that made my own emotions go all kablooey, Abby's POV:
"When I think of it now, I’m tempted to tell it differently: to say I left because Father Wisdom was evil, because I wanted to get away from him.
"But that wasn’t the story I told myself at the time. And maybe I couldn’t. Maybe I just wasn’t ready to face the real story yet. It’s really hard to leave a cult you were raised in, but later on it seems ridiculous that it was so hard."
When I typed that last sentence I had a breakdown moment where I couldn't do anything other than sob for a while.
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24 May
This thread touches on most of the things I would want to mention, regarding that particular article, but I have one other observation --
There's a common framing to all of these evangelical "but have you considered NOT deconstructing your way into the exvangelical wilderness?" essays, which is that it is YOUR job -- the individual believer -- to work hard to hang onto your faith in spite of everything
A LOT of evangelical writing takes the form of self-help advice. "Here's how to hang onto your evangelical faith with all this deconstruction going on" comes off with the same energy as "here's how to keep up your exercise routine during the pandemic"
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15 May
Looks like the Christian Post is at it again, Starting with this headline that sounds like a joke, “Heckle Christ’s bride at your eternal peril”
This is a republish of an article that originally had a less attention-grabby but equally evangelical-centric headline: “How to Stay When the World Says Leave”
This is a very common framing for evangelicals, that “the world” somehow exists over THERE, while evangelicals are over HERE being “in the world but not of it”

I don’t buy it.
Read 145 tweets
12 May
Reading this, what you see is the inevitable evangelical urge to make sure leavers and critics never get to define themselves, give their own reasons, and have that stand as the narrative.
"They SAY they're leaving for [x] reasons but we don't like those reasons... what if they're just mad at God?"
"To publicly denounce a particular congregation, not to mention a particular denomination (not to mention an entire faith tradition), because of how people behaved is to misunderstand what Christianity is."

But what is Christianity, if it's not made up of Christians?
Read 19 tweets
12 May
I'd never heard of this particular dude before, but the overall outlines of this narrative, "I converted to Catholicism as an adult and now think the US should be run as a Catholic theocratic dictatorship" are oddly common thedailybeast.com/new-york-post-…
“My moral opinions were as interchangeable as my clothing styles and musical tastes,” the 36-year-old Ahmari [..] writes in his latest book, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos."
Well, guess what, dude, my moral opinions have been pretty solid since I was a little kid, and I'm older than you, and I say "traditional" patriarchal religions can suck it.
Read 9 tweets
11 May
Dudes like this always make people like me sound so badass.

I AM A PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS
I HATE CREATION ORDER
I HATE BIBLICAL MANHOOD
I AM HERE TO ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD
BEHOLD MY AWESOME POWER
I AM THE FLAME AND THE DARKNESS
ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR
He's not even wrong, I DO hate all those things, because I know that all those things are examples of patriarchy, and I hate patriarchy.
"Creation order" == patriarchy
"Biblical manhood" == patriarchy
"God-centered family" == patriarchy
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