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It’s tiring enough getting people to admit that “real” Christians can be bad people.
But the hard truth we really need to hear is this: for some versions of Christianity, being a GOOD Christian *means* being a BAD person (anti-pluralist, anti-democratic)
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So, I've never been this nervous to put anything on the internet before (and I'm not exactly known for my milquetoast takes), but happy Pride everyone!
#TuesdayMotivation
#PrideMonth
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Conservatism leads to abuse because conservatism *is* abuse. It is the protection of hierarchy and unearned privilege at the expense of those without power, and the protection of institutions at the expense of the people who inhabit them.
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Someone recently argued that we need a new Billy Graham; I wish Graham’s urgent public Evangelicalism had died with him.
America needs a new Fred Rogers. His Christianity I can approve of. It wasn’t a spectacle; Mr. Rogers just genuinely cared for people. We didn’t deserve him.
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You don’t defang the evangelical persecution complex by trying not to set it off. You defang the evangelical persecution complex by refusing to coddle evangelicals in their bad-faith claims of unfair treatment
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You are not a traitor to your family for:
- abandoning their religion
- not conforming re: gender and sexuality
- making your own political, lifestyle, and ethical choices
If your parents coerced you in the above matters, *they* betrayed *you.*
#Exvangelical
#EmptyThePews
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All I want for Christmas is for people to stop equating “Christian” with “good”
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“‘He... wouldn’t even cuss,’ the woman said. ‘He was big into religion.’”
Looks like externalization of self-hatred by a purity-culture-warped youth pastor’s son. Church taught him he had a sex addiction and to objectify and blame women who “tempted” him
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#ChristianPrivilege
is letting Catholic hospitals refuse to offer comprehensive women’s healthcare, endangering countless lives when they won’t even treat, e.g. an ectopic pregnancy. This is unconscionable and outrageous.
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"No religious test for public office," cry people who want to apply religious tests to literally everything
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I am once again asking Christians to acknowledge that Christianity can be harmful
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Where were the January 6 insurrectionists radicalized?
We must not neglect conservative Christian churches, schools, and homeschooling in addressing that question or we’ll never be able to craft effective counter-radicalization policies.
My latest:
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1. The generation of
#AltFacts
and post-truth conditions is a form of gaslighting on a large social scale endemic to authoritarian regimes.
The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
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The intolerance of the just vote crowd bewilders me. It doesn’t matter if you always vote Dem, as I do, to prioritize harm reduction.
The minute you criticize anything about the Democratic gerontocracy, they become all vitriol and condescension, berate you beyond all proportion
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Roe being overturned is the worst sort of “I told you so” moment. There was never a real question of why white evangelicals embraced Trump. He did what they wanted.
Will the press start treating the Christian Right like a serious threat to democracy and human rights now?
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You know, there’s a word for bigotry protected by sincerely held religious beliefs. And that word is “bigotry”
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We should stop treating Evangelicalism as a legit religion instead of a big cult that protects white supremacy.
#ConfessYourUnpopularOpinion
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I'm a writer, Russian history Ph.D., college instructor, and vocal ex-Evangelical, and I'm calling Trump a white supremacist. Who else?
I am a military veteran and a proud Texan, and I am calling Trump a white supremacist.
Keep it going.
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I just deleted Yelp from my phone. I will no longer be a party to the predatory bullshit that Yelp and GrubHub are pulling at the expense of small businesses:
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Are you also someone who attended Christian schools as a kid who wants the public to understand how extreme and authoritarian they are?
Please share your stories and memories using the hashtag
#ExposeChristianSchools
Pull them out of Christian school; where this and worse indoctrination are absolutely typical
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One thing we must find out is who issued the order to ICE to destroy records linking children to parents. That person is guilty of a crime against humanity, as are all who followed the order.
America is under fascist rule. This is not a drill.
#Resist
#TheResistance
So it seems more likely genocidal adoption was the plan all along. So many horrifying revelations today.
#Resist
#EmptyThePews
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This deleted tweet by
@marwilliamson
needs to be spread far and wide. No one who thinks that “power of the mind” kept a hurricane away from Florida is fit to be president. And it seems she thinks Bahamians didn’t pray enough? Racist much?
#WednesdayThoughts
#DemocraticParty
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Ron DeSantis was an admin for a racist Tea Party Facebook group that included posts calling
#BlackLivesMatter
“ghetto scum” and mocked Parkland massacre survivors.
I sure hope Florida proves better than to elect this garbage human.
#Resist
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.
@GSAEmily
is deservedly one of the most hated women in America at the moment, and we should continue to flood her with demands to release transition funds for President-elect Biden.
But can we do it without the fat shaming please? Thanks.
#DoYourJobEmily
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Baptist Pastor Robert Jeffress tells Lou Dobbs “The God we serve doesn’t rule according to popularity polls” and that Trump is “on the right side of history” and “the right side of God.”
Evangelicals are telling you they don’t support democracy or pluralism. Time to believe them
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Why does abuse keep happening in evangelical environments again, and again, and again?
Josh Duggar’s arrest for downloading and possessing child sex abuse material illustrates a broader pattern rooted in evangelical theology itself.
More details here:
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White Christian terrorists like Matt Walsh are going to get people killed. They know exactly what they're doing
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.
@Starbucks
, whoever called the police in this instance needs to be fired. Same for any manager who failed to intervene. I am a very regular (and vocal!) customer, but if you don’t take robust action to address this racist incident I will have to drop my Starbucks habit.
@missydepino
We’re reviewing the incident with our partners, law enforcement and customers to determine what took place and led to this unfortunate result.
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You have to believe this was not accidental.
I don’t see how an honest observer could avoid the conclusion that unreconstructed America is waging a cold civil war on the rest of us at this point
LA received 170 broken ventilators from the national stockpile. Rather than complaining, we put them on a truck, drove them up overnight, and had
@Bloom_Energy
get to work fixing them.
Monday they‘ll back in LA--fixed.
That’s the spirit of CA.
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I have evangelical vaccine refusers in my family, and I’ve covered the Christian Right beat for six years. I’m done sugarcoating things. Coddling Christian nationalists is a luxury Americans can no longer afford.
My latest, on evangelical vaccine refusal
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Wait till Voldemort finds out he was doing horcruxes completely the wrong way
Unpopular opinion: if no one is gonna say it i will! Sex before marriage is toxic & it can hurt our soul deeply. Every time we have sex with someone we’re giving away a piece of ourself & honestly that’s why we feel so empty b/c we have a bunch of our pieces scattered everywhere
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Some good news for a change!
#EmptyThePews
KENTUCKY: Governor's Office Says Kim Davis Must Pay $225,000 To Gay Plaintiffs For "Violating Civil Rights" -
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In my latest for
@Playboy
, I note that children separated from their parents at the border may end up de facto trafficked via mostly religious adoption agencies.
White supremacist theocracy is here.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
#Exvangelical
#EmptyThePews
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I just took my first dose of hormones. This is for real.
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If you left Evangelicalism over bigotry and intolerance or this election specifically, please share your story w/ the hashtag
#EmptyThePews
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The Christian Right will impose minority authoritarian rule for as long as it can, and it’s about goddam time we started acting like we’re fighting an anti-democratic force, a real threat to democracy and human rights, because we fucking are, and not by choice.
Get in the fight.
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The story of Christian nationalism is one of systematic harm done to members of minority religions, women, and secular, LGBTQ, and BIPOC folks.
It is NOT a story of moderate Christians being sad their coreligionists have tarnished their reputation. Stop telling it that way
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Never thought I'd see the day the Florida legislature turned on Disney, which is, you know, kind of the only major employer for non-snowbird residents of Orange and Osceola Counties in a state whose economy depends largely on tourism...
Anti-LGBTQ hatred is a hell of a drug
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My quality of life has gotten much better since I’ve learned to say this to people
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Clearly you didn't grow up evangelical Christian in the 80s. We already had the conspiracy theories then, and we're reaping the whirlwind now. The current iteration of the Christian Right has been a toxic force for a half century, and it brought us to this moment.
When I was a kid in the 80s, it seemed like Republican culture was all about working hard, believing in Jesus, staying married, going to church...Now, it seems like Republican culture is all about obsessing over conspiracy theories and race war.
What the heck happened, guys???
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1. Let's talk about some of the striking new data we have showing the extent to which white evangelicals are the single most racist and nativist demographic in America. No white Christian demographic is doing great. But evangelicals are the absolute worst.
#EmptyThePews
#Resist
"’Why do they stick with Trump?’ Wong asked during the panel. ‘Because Trump's immigration agenda is the white evangelical immigration agenda.’”
Not only, but this is a key factor. Racist white evangelicals are afraid of demographic change.
#Exvangelical
#EmptyThePews
#Resist
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1. A few brief comments. This is not speculation but is very well documented. In fact it's a long-term strategy rooted in the sixties.
The dominionist plan is to destroy public education and indoctrinate kids in Christian schools/homeschooling.
#YouDontKnowEvangelicals
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13. This is more or less how authoritarian psychology works. Very insecure people strive to dominate others to make themselves feel safe.
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A significant final message.
#RIPJohnMccain
CNN reporting John McCain requested that both George W Bush and Barack Obama deliver eulogies at his funeral.
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Mass murderer Aaron Long reportedly told police he sought to “eliminate temptation” by murdering sex workers. Yes, we’ve seen this movie before, but this time it’s got a very specifically evangelical inflection.
In evangelical churches, boys are taught they are “lust monsters.”
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Let’s call these “immigration policies” what they are: ethnic cleansing, brought to you by the fascist GOP and your friendly neighborhood Christian Right.
#WhereAreTheChildren
#EmptyThePews
#Resist
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“It turns out that self-reporting religious conservatives lie, even if in fairness they may also be lying to themselves.” There, fixed it for you.
If you don’t understand the constant pressure evangelicals are under to project happiness, you know nothing,
@nytimes
#EmptyThePews
It turns out that the happiest of all wives in America are religious conservatives, followed by their progressive counterparts
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Introducing bills like this serves a purpose even when they’re expected not to go anywhere.
That purpose is to make other legislative initiatives targeting human rights seem reasonable, and to pave the way for ever more radical authoritarianism.
Someday, this law could pass
This bill in Texas, SB1646, would remove trans kids from their homes if a parent affirms their gender. Truly barbaric.
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My entire seventh-grade class was pressured and manipulated into signing purity pledges.
We weren’t just given disinformation about condoms. We were also told that even kissing someone we didn’t end up marrying would be “cheating on our future spouses”
#ExposeChristianSchools
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Yeah, so I’m feeling pretty down on Christianity lately. I’d apologize if that’s offensive, except I won’t because I’m not sorry.
Those of you who don’t want to kill me seem mostly more concerned with saving your faith’s rep than stopping the Christians who do want to kill me
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I am among the many ex-evangelicals who were essentially coerced into signing “purity pledges” in the 1990s, which is just one of the many manipulative practices associated with purity culture.
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1. As yet more Jerry Falwell Jr. scandals come to light, I've decided to do a thread of everything I've ever written about him and Liberty University in the context of exposing evangelical authoritarianism. But let's start with the latest and a summary for those late to the party
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1. Certain anti-Nazi figures, esp. Corrie ten Boom and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, are held up as heroes in white Evangelical subculture. But.
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Here are the Twitter handles of many signers of the hateful anti-LGBTQ
#NashvilleStatement
. Let them know you intend to
#EmptyThePews
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12. If it weren't abortion, it'd be something else. The fetish lets them to justify their authoritarian rigidity and avoid personal growth.
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But honestly have they tried just not being evangelical. I mean, no one is born evangelical. It’s a destructive lifestyle choice they recruit children into
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Bernie bros trolling this tweet with "derp but Clarence Thomas" are being short-sighted at best. Biden is in the Dem Party, can be swayed by Dems to his left. Appointing a SCOTUS justice is not the same as agreeing to let a confirmation vote move forward. Biden voted no on Thomas
The Supreme Court point is key. However much you loathe Biden, allowing Trump a second term to pack the Supreme Court, 7-2 to the far right, means progressive politics is basically crippled for the next 40 to 50 years 👀
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A lot of you all see blackmail and kompromat everywhere so you can blame all our problems on Trump and the Russians. Sadly, the
@GOP
, radicalized by the Christian Right, has long since been headed toward fascism. Terrible people don’t need to be coerced to do terrible things.
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The
@GOP
has become a fascist party, a party of white Christian nationalism and stochastic terrorism.
@IlhanMN
, decent Americans who reject authoritarianism and value diversity and democracy have your back.
#IStandWithIlhan
#Exvangelical
#Resist
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The person who most often conveys this message is the youth pastor—Long’s dad in this case.
Long’s sex drive was likely normal, but he was taught it was evil and needed to be repressed until marriage. This leads many evangelical boys to think they have sex or porn “addictions.”
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Things evangelical relatives think it’s appropriate to write in birthday cards
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I was raised Christian and it was exactly like this, so
It’s apparent that Amy Comey Barrett hates women. These new Christians are the cruelest people I’ve ever encountered. I was raised a Christian it’s nothing like this.
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We were shown videos about “flood geology”—the belief that Noah’s flood, not geologic time and evolution, is responsible for various rock layers and the fossil record—in AP biology.
Yes, you read that right
#ExposeChristianSchools
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In short, this case has specifically evangelical toxic masculinity and purity culture written all over it.
The attitudes described above are pervasive in evangelical subculture, and misogynistic violence like the murders that took place yesterday is a logical result.
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Generally these “addictions”—aren’t. On this see the work of
@JoshuaGrubbsPhD
And yes, while this sometimes leads to self-hatred for boys and men, a lot of blame is placed on women and girls, whose “modesty” is policed and who are often blamed for their own molestation or rape.
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1. It’s easy to dismiss bills so extreme they won’t pass even in Ohio, but dismissal is the wrong approach. This bill, which prescribed the death penalty for the made up “crime” of “aggravated abortion murder,” has 19 co-sponsors in a state House of 99 members.
#EmptyThePews
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“Hookers for Jesus operates a safe house for female adult trafficking victims that, in 2010 and in 2018, maintained a policy of requiring guests to participate in religious activities.”
Your tax dollars at work supporting born again coercion
#EvangelicalsForTrump
#EmptyThePews
DOJ employees have asked the agency's Inspector General to look into a $530,000 anti-trafficking grant to a group called Hookers for Jesus.
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10. White Evangelicals are unable to face their actual fear and trauma, so they convince themselves they're heroic defenders of the unborn.
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I seem to have pissed off the entire Right with
#ExposeChristianSchools
. The hashtag is denounced in The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, National Review, a Haaretz op-ed, and, my personal favorite, by Tony Perkins on the website of Family Research Council, an SPLC-listed hate group
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15. Conservative white Evangelicals thus get to claim they support "a culture of life" while directly enabling harm, violence, death.
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Reminder that Pompeo is a Presbyterian who is on the record as both a rapture believer and an extreme Islamophobe. This very wrongheaded, destabilizing shift in policy is brought to you by white evangelicals.
#MondayMotivation
#EmptyThePews
via
@NYTimes
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1. Per
@ThePlumLineGS
, "Trump has crossed over into a form of autocratic disinformation that is designed to render fact-based deliberation and argument impossible."
He's right. This is a deliberate authoritarian strategy.
#SaturdayThoughts
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4. They are sure that they already are persecuted! That right there tells you how divorced their worldview is from reality. It gets worse.
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It is not the duty of survivors of abuse to make nice with our abusers. And there is no forgiveness without actual repentance. I appreciate the honesty of your thread,
@mattsheffield
, but you lose me here in this plea for cheap grace.
At the same time, the tens of millions of people who vote Republican are not deplorable. They are misled. And the mocking and tribalistic coverage that lefty media often engage in only makes things worse. Only love can defeat hate.
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Epstein should have been prevented from committing suicide. After the first attempt they knew he’d likely try again.
This is Epstein getting one final break from a system that coddles wealthy white men no matter how heinous, while devaluing the girls he raped and trafficked.
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I like and appreciate many Christians.
I fundamentally dislike Christianity.
I limit what I say about this because I strongly believe in pluralism and in supporting those religious adherents who are trying to make their religions the best versions of themselves they can be
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11. In Lacanian terms, abortion functions for them as a "defensive fetish." E.g. "Well, I would vote against the Neo-Nazis, but - abortion!"
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Heeeeey atheists! Did u know?
Fun fact!
Religions are not collections of empirically testable propositions waiting for us to come along, read them in the most uncharitable way possible, and save them for “Gotcha!” moments! 😱
They are lived cultural systems. Weird but true! 🤯
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“No parent should be forced to send their child to a failing government school.”
Most observers will miss this, but this rhetoric of “government schools” is from Christian Reconstructionism.
Big coded nod to the Christian Right on “school choice” here
#SOTU2020
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16. The convenient thing about "unborn babies," of course, is they're blank ciphers. They will never challenge the Evangelical worldview.
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Never listen to anyone who tells you that you are not your own. Even (and especially) the apostle Paul
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None of what I’ve written here is meant to “justify” Long’s heinous actions in any way.
He chose to murder members of a vulnerable population—Asian massage parlor workers. They are the victims.
Evangelical purity culture is toxic, but Long’s indoctrination does not absolve him.
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Republicans have been calling Democrats weak, communists, and godless since forever.
How is it that Democratic strategists have, after all this time, failed to learn that “No we’re not!” is extremely bad counter-messaging?
Stop accepting the fascists’ framing pleaseandthankyou
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The Lincoln Project was never on our side. It was run by bigoted, terrible people who are very good at PR, and willing not just to abuse NDAs, but also to go nuclear” on anyone who might harm their image.
Some of us have been telling you 🤷♀️
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So look what came in the mail—my first official ID under the name Christina Rhoda Stroop with my sex listed as female! Yeah, I should have done Social Security first, but Oregon doesn’t require real ID compliant drivers licenses till about a year from now so 🤷♀️
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24. Fundamentally, what needs to happen is for the American public to face the fact that white evangelical subculture is pervasively authoritarian, and that as such it represents the single greatest threat to democracy and human rights in this country today.
#EmptyThePews
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You know what would really piss off the Christian Right?
For my and
@laureneoneal
's Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church to sell so many copies they can't possibly ignore it.
Just sayin' 😉
#SaturdayMotivation
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20. At the end of the day, fundamentalism is a misdirected response to trauma, and hurt people hurt people. Then refuse to admit it .
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What is wrong with the flight crew not immediately putting a stop to this wildly inappropriate display?
Imagine you get on a plane and you have to listen to this
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For those insisting there’s “no source” showing that Chris Pratt supports conversion therapy, you don’t get to go to a notoriously homophobic and abuse-harboring church like Hillsong and then pretend that you’re not complicit. That’s not how anything works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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This bodes ill. If our cultural elite feels comfortable embracing Trump stooges, welcome to kleptocratic-theocratic dystopia.
#Resist
The degree to which Sean Spicer has faced no consequences is a glimpse into the post-Trump future.
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25. Conservative, authoritarian Christianity protects its adherents from facing hard truths, impedes self-reflection and systemic thinking.
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Yeah, I remember where I was and I what I was doing when I got the news on September 11, 2001, but honestly, I don’t really want to talk about it.
I do want to say this: stop rehabilitating the presidency of George W. Bush, a direct step by the GOP along the Trumpist trajectory.
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People of Twitter, this tweet of Rand Paul’s is what authoritarianism looks like. This is not a drill.
#Resist
#TheResistance
#TrumpismIsNotNormal
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A word of advice. Quit looking for white evangelicals’ breaking point with Trump. There isn’t one.
#EmptyThePews
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#ChristianPrivilege
is getting to discriminate against people who aren’t right-wing Christians and call it “religious freedom.”
#SaturdayThoughts
#EmptyThePews
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Worried that evangelical adoption agencies like Bethany Christian Services are handling children separated from their parents? You should be. Their record of manipulation exposed in
@kathrynajoyce
's The Child Catchers is shocking.
#EmptyThePews
#Resist
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I’m seeing a number of people, notably
@kurteichenwald
, saying they’re done with church as white evangelicals remain all-in for Trump.
Can we get
#EmptyThePews
trending again like it did in August 2017?
Tweet your story of leaving toxic Christianity:
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Floored by GOP denial of obvious facts?
To understand, you must scrutinize the Christian Right. I was them. We did "alternative facts" before it was cool.
Demand journalists call religious extremism by its name:
#TheyGotCaught
#EmptyThePews
#Resist
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