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Emily Joy Allison Profile picture
@emilyjoypoetry
Jun 13 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
If the words "purity culture" came out of Bart Barbers mouth I will yeet myself in to the sun lol 😂 #ChurchToo #SBCtoo #SBC23
I'm actually interested in this though because some moderate/conserv Christian spaces have started being like "we are NOT promoting purity culture, we're just teaching the biblical view that sex is for marriage between a cishet man & cishet woman" which is, ahem, purity culture
But if others are actively and gladly accepting the banner of "purity culture" by name, my innate morbid curiosity really wants to look at more of that. Similar to The G*spel C*alition saying a while back they want to promote a "positive culture of purity" which is almost that
Huh I guess he did

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Jun 14
Now, the "why" question here always haunts me. Like yeah power is a hell of a drug & men throughout history have done horrifying shit to hold onto it but in the SBC the power is so closely tied to being able to abuse women & children & protect those that do #ChurchToo #SBC23
I don't think that every denomination where anyone has ever been sexually abused is like this, but the more I study the SBC specifically the more that it looks less like a conglomeration of churches to me and more like a coverup ring for sexually violent men #ChurchToo #SBC23
I do not know why else you would be SO desperate to hold onto the power to sexually abuse others with impunity (or enable literally HUNDREDS of other men to do so) to the point that women pastors are your worst fear unless you had a very vested interest #ChurchToo #SBC23
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Jun 14
There will be some that call the #sbc23 decision to "disfellowship" a church for having women in pastoral leadership "hypocritical" given their rampant #churchtoo sexual abuse crisis perpetrated mainly by men in pastoral leadership against women & children, BUT. Here's the thing:
It's actually not hypocritical at all, and I think calling it hypocritical is generous and gives the vile, queerphobic, white supremacist, p*dophilia protecting leadership of the SBC WAYYY too much credit, as if it's simply a problem of ideological consistency. #SBC23 #ChurchToo
It's not hypocritical: it is both intentionally supremacist & perfectly in line with the SBC's theology of sexuality, gender, and ecclesial authority. Complementarianism is a sexually violent theology. Anti-LGBTQ+ theology is sexually violent theology. #ChurchToo #SBC23
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May 10, 2022
You know, shitty sex education is bad. Purity culture is bad. Lack of access to condoms/birth control/plan B is bad. Anti-choice laws are bad. Pressure to stay in abusive relationships is bad. Treating children like they don’t have rights is bad. But abortion? Abortion isn’t bad.
I see a lot of [progressive/moderate] Christians on here being like ABORTION IS BAD I WANT TO REDUCE IT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE THAT’S WHY I’M IN FAVOR OF X LAW/POLICY and I get it I used to do that too but all that does is further stigmatize abortions & those that get them.
The circumstances that lead someone to get an abortion may be bad/unjust/traumatic… or they may not. But that doesn’t have anything to do with the “goodness” or “badness” of the variety of medical procedures we call “abortion” & its better to listen to people who’ve had them
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Aug 30, 2021
As the sun's coming up where some of our family lives in New Orleans this morning the only thing I can think about is the weekend after the tornado hit me & Caitlin's house in March 2020. A team of 20-25 of our friends had assembled to quickly move us out of our unlivable house.
There were volunteer crews from every corner of TN going around helping people saw down tree branches & move heavy things out of their house & giving out food. Some of it was helpful. Some of it was ridiculous like coming home to tupperwares full of unsolicited soup on the porch.
But what I will always remember is the youth groups. The way they'd walk into houses uninvited, thinking that was okay because the doors had been blown off. The way they invited Caitlin to their evangelistic "block party" while she was sitting in a pile of our things on the lawn.
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Aug 12, 2021
Hi all. This is a thread about what is commonly referred to as "deconstruction," Joshua Harris' new "course," and the grifters of the post-evangelical internet. Buckle up. #purityculture #churchtoo #deconstruction
I've been holding my tongue and biding my time on the "deconstruction" movement for a while now. Language evolves and we needed a useful term for the process many of us have gone through that involves unlearning, deconverting, and/or reconfiguring the toxic faith we once had.
What I'm about to say is in no way meant to imply that one must have specific credentials or certifications to be an expert in one's own experience, nor is it meant to imply that credentialing orgs are free of white supremacy, queerphobia, classism, and general vileness.
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Apr 30, 2021
Sigh. So all I've really been focusing on the last couple of days is finishing up my semester & I'm fucking EXHAUSTED but the work of #ChurchToo does not care how many pages I had to write this week. I'm gonna tweet about Josh Duggar and Moody Bible Institute so buckle up & TW ⬇️
First of all, the news about Josh Duggar is traumatizing af for a lot of us especially those of us who come from fundamentalist homeschooling backgrounds (hi 🖐️) and one thing I'm gonna need every media outlet to stop doing immediately is treating purity culture like it's *cute.*
So much of the coverage of the last decade has been like "let's go look at these evangelical freaks with their purity balls & their weird church services! how unique!" It has felt like a field trip to the evangelical zoo but this shit is not cute. It's killing people. #ChurchToo
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