Justin Gentry
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Delightful pile of sentient stardust. Co-Host: @gohomebible + @revcoveryroom . Enthusiast. ADHD. He/Him. Probably a parody.
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Imagine putting a $10,000 bounty on the head of a pregnant woman and having the gall to call yourself a follower of Jesus.
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It is harder for me to get my ADHD meds than it is for me to get an AR-15.
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Repeat after me: The minimum wage was always meant to be a living wage and a living wage means affording rent, food, healthcare, and occasional pleasures.
If minimum wage was only meant for teenagers why is McDonalds open at 10am on a Wednesday?
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Walking to the bus stop:
Daddy, I kinda want to say the F-word.
Yeah sweetie, why is that?
Because it’s fucking cold.
💀
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When the Pulse shooting happened I was a quietly affirming pastor in a non-affirming denomination. I wasn't allowed to speak up beyond "thoughts and prayers."
That experience changed me because I realized being quietly affirming of the LGBTQIA community wasn't enough.
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It your religion tells you that your real life begins after you die you are in a cult.
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Messed up purity culture thoughts that hit me at 8am:
I was told so many times that men had uncontrollable sex drives that when I was with a girl and she set a boundary I thought something was wrong with me because I had the ability to not cross it.
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Raise your had if your faith deconstruction started with wanting to take the Bible/Jesus/whatever seriously and had very little to do with wanting to sin more.
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A lot of the things I was told I had to do to be a good Christian really just resulted in me having terrible boundaries.
Can anyone else relate?
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What is evangelicalism if not slaveholder religion persevering?
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Hi, *taps mic* Being called "gay" is not an insult.
When someone thinks I'm gay or bi it is usually because they have "caught" me being kind, empathetic, or simply enjoying something colorful about life.
It's used as a way to diminish my masculinity and frankly its telling. 🧵
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@ToriGlass
Can’t recall where I picked this one up but, thinking about your kids age by the number of given months they have experienced.
For example: My 5 year old has only experienced the month of April 5 times.
Something about that reframing helps me manage my expectations of them.
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Me to my 2yo:
Hey buddy can you eat your mac and cheese?
No.
Can you eat your broccoli?
No I’m drinking my dinosaur lemonade.
Ok…can you eat your dinosaur mac and cheese?
Sure!
What about your dinosaur broccoli?
Roar! Yummy!
I’m a parenting genius.
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If fully affirming my LGBTQ friends and family is sin; then yes I left the church to sin.
If advocating for the rights of BIPOC is sin; then yes I left the church to sin.
If making sure every mouth is fed, every child is warm, and the wealthy pay their fair share is sin…
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@rebeccamakkai
I used to live in this area and folks this is the view they paid 6 million for.
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Gents, if you are waiting for your crush to turn 18 you are likely doing something very, very wrong.
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Sometimes get hung up on what to call myself. Am I a Christian? Agnostic? Atheist? Pagan?
Then I remember the greatest gift of my faith deconstruction.
I don’t have to be anything. I can just be a human moving through this universe with other humans.
Ah, what a gift.
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Me, reading about attachment theory, realizing that being an “easygoing” kid was just me not being able to voice my needs.
Good morning to you too.
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I get it. If you are a minister you will probably lose your income for speaking up. I barely made a peep and it happened to me.
But I can say with confidence that the only thing I regret is that I didn't say something sooner.
People are dying. Now is the time.
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It’s the guns.
Other nations have mental health problems. Other nations have video games. Other nations don’t have compulsory prayer in schools. Other nations have declining participation in religious services.
The problem has always been the guns.
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Covenant Eyes but instead it sends a report every time you try to overthrow an election.
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Affirming the right of fellow humans to exist in public without fear isn't a quiet act. You can't "wrestle in the nuance" anymore because the result time and again is people losing their lives.
It isn't courageous to quietly work for others dignity.
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Hi, I’m gonna call in the straights for a second:
Hey, can we put a permanent moratorium on “coming out” as affirming?
Its not our thing to appropriate and publicly declaring you have decided another person’s experience matters to you isn’t a flex. 1/
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No one:
Tim Keller: Hey can I interest you in my sermon notes from the height of purity culture in the 90s?
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Today I learned that the phrase "blood is thicker than water" is short for "the blood of the covenant is thicker that the water of the womb."
Meaning chosen bonds are stronger than familial ones which is the opposite of the way that expression is used.
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Kids are suicidal because their parents are taught to "remove sin from the camp" and it goes unchallenged.
Unhealthy men are emboldened to "do something" about the "sin" of gay people just living their lives and it goes unchallenged.
When does your silence become evil?
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PSA to get your Astroglide out of the nightstand if you have 2 year olds. They will find it and cover themselves with it in a shockingly brief amount of time. Thankfully it is non toxic and edible; a thing I googled today.
I will not be taking further questions.
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I really hope the rapture is tonight cause student loans are coming due and we need fewer people in the world who oppose the forgiveness of debts.
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In one night we killed more Iraqi civilians than were killed in 9/11. The long chain of violence and retaliation still grows. My heart breaks for the things done to others in the name of "safety"
My deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11 💔
And my deepest condolences to the millions of innocent muslim civilians who have been displaced and lost their lives in Wars and hate crimes for a crime they did not commit.
#ImNotATerrorist
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Make your predictions:
What “scandal” during the halftime show is going to consume the evangelical mind for the next week?
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Love it when I defend a person on the internet and the anonymous trolls jump in with “she won’t have sex with you!”
First, how do you know?
Second, if your only reason to defend someone is because you hope they will have sex with you why do you defend M*tt W*alsh so hard?
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The longer I am out of evangelicalism the more I realize that conservative religions tend to get in the way of our development of positive ethical frameworks more than help.
Humans don’t actually need god, or the threat of hell, to be a good person.
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The current record for money spent to avoid therapy is 44 billion.
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As an evangelical what are some of the weirdest things you were told were satanic?
Go!
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Free faith deconstruction tip:
Part of deconstruction, for white men in particular, is learning to listen. If you were deep into conservative evangelicalism less than 5 years ago it is not your turn yet. You have barely started; it’s time to be quiet.
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10 years ago Love Wins was released.
How many of y'all can trace your faith deconstruction back to that moment?
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I’ve noticed some themes when it comes to disclosing abuse and evangelicals:
Disclosing abuse to an evangelical: “To what degree were you abused? That doesn’t seem so bad/that’s life.”
Disclosing abuse to literally anyone else: “OMG I’m so sorry. That is never ok.”
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I see your photo with a Bible and raise you a full on Christian soldier outfit.
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Teaching humans that desiring to have sex with someone is the exact same thing as having sex with them is damaging. It bears bad fruit and should be tossed out.
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Raise your hand if you know a pastor who secretly doesn't believe anymore but also can't bring themselves to leave their job?
✋
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The trend of evangelicals commenting to exvangelicals that they cannot comment on evangelicalism because they aren't evangelical is kinda hilarious when you think about it.
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Evangelicals talk about WAP by Cardi B so much that I am convinced Christians 2000 years from now will think they sing it during worship because it was an allegory between Christ and the church.
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@austinchanning
Now that I am out of ministry I am making more now than I ever have but after some quick math I realized that I in my late 30's with a masters am making roughly the same amount my mom was making in her early 20's with no degree.
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The axial tilt of the earth is the reason for the season.
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Me at the start of my deconstruction: I think Jesus is leading me out of the church.
Me now: I think Jesus is leading me into agnostic atheism.
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@ToriGlass
I am trying to give each of my kids at least 30 minutes of touch/snuggling/undivided attention for this reason.
My middle one got her feelings hurt yesterday by some friends and came inside yelling “I need attention!” 5 minutes of snuggles and she was back outside.
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But on another level what passes as "straight" masculinity in our culture is a very impoverished view of what it means to be a human man.
The current discourse has men questioning if buying a thoughtful gift for their wife ahead of time is "gay."
This is ridiculous.
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@ToriGlass
I grew up being taught that this kind of behavior it was “sinful” and that I should punish it. Now it seems pretty obvious to me that children (and grown adults for that matter) need a home base to get their shit together.
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If being a thoughtful partner is gay, I'm fine with being called gay.
If complimenting a friend's accomplishment makes me queer, I'm fine with the "man police" thinking I'm queer.
It's not an insult when insecure men in discount Gimli cosplay think that I'm not one of them.
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For one, masculinity isn't something you can take away from someone by calling them "gay." Being a member of the LGBTQIA community is an expression of masculinity that is just as valid as being straight.
Sorry these are facts and I hear facts don't care about your feelings.
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Whether you are gay, straight or just occasionally called "gay" you are welcome to the table if you want to sit here. We honestly need you here.
I am a better human and a better man because I have more than one source telling me what being a good human is. We all need this. /end
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In 100 years people from what used to be Texas will be like: “The second civil war was fought over states rights!”
Everyone else: “States rights to do what?”
Former Texans: “Um, states rights to cut up fellow humans with razor wire…but it was a different time back then.”
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Talking with
@ToriGlass
and we have decided our grand plan is to make up something called Critical Church Theory and tell people it is being taught in churches. Evangelicals will boycott themselves in a heartbeat.
It's our best shot yet to defund the church.
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Perhaps the most affirming thing you can do is simply to stand in solidarity with the queer community without asking for a pat on the back for recognizing they matter.
Being affirming should be the default, literally the least you can do, it’s time we treat it as such. End/
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Masculinity isn't something that an accusation of queerness can take away from you. If you are secure in yourself, "being a man" is not a limited resource that needs protected, strictly defined, or policed.
It is an ever changing and evolving thing that isn't set in stone.
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@masonmennenga
Actual footage of the hermeneutical gymnastics evangelicals use to get around anything involving a negative view of the wealthy.
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Something that was hard to accept but necessary for my mental health:
Evangelicals do not follow the teachings of Jesus. Period.
Showing them where they fall short is a bit like critiquing a Republican for not being a Democrat. They will laugh you out of the room for trying.
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@cleetus74
Except that quite a few women who seek abortions are married with children and simply can’t afford more.
Expand your understanding of what an unwanted pregnancy is or stop commenting on it my guy.
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@Nonat1s
“Everyone calls it Wokefinder”
Um you mean two people tops that have, at best, read something online and barely glanced at the CRB.
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6 months ago they were telling us that liberals were devils that ran secret child sex trafficking rings and deserved death. Now that one of their own has been caught red handed they pressure a judge to be lenient because anyone can stumble.
Make it make sense.
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The Venn diagram of people who think Song of Songs is only about marital love between one man and one woman and people who think Ruth just gave Boaz a foot massage is probably a circle.
That circle is also wrong on both counts. The Bible is saucy y’all.
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When someone gets in trouble for not baking a cake the freedom of religion folks are all over it.
When someone gets in trouble for sheltering the unhoused; silence.
The priority is power and bigotry in Jesus name, not a more Christlike society.
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Regardless of how a person contracted HIV, denying them care because of your “religious convictions” is evil and your religion is too.
Full stop. I said what I said.
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Faith deconstruction is a lot like being born. For the first few years you are an angry, crying, mess that barely understands itself.
This is ok. There is nothing wrong with you. Those who are further along remember to be kind. We are all trying to grow here.
#exvangelical
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If your theology leads you to abandon your child I think you should probably find yourself a milestone and an ocean.
And if you can’t be brave enough to put your name to that theology then don’t even say it in the first place.
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@seanfeucht
@HarperCollins
Well well well if it isn't the consequences of your actions.
Thoughts and prayers.
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A little 4/20 wisdom:
Just because the edible isn't working yet doesn't mean you need to take a little more.
Patience my friends, or accidentally go to outer space, your choice.
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Deciding you believe their story and cherish their expression of humanity isn’t an achievement. It’s clearing a bar that is on the floor.
If you must say something instead of a public declaration try a private confession, with consent, to an actual queer person you know. 2/
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I want to be a person who is consistent in character.
I do not want to be a person who is consistent in ideology.
These two things are confused too often and it’s killing us.
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@ToriGlass
Everyone says I look a lot like my uncle (dads brother). It’s honestly annoying how often it happens.
I joked with my mom once that maybe he’s my dad and she laughed and said “no you’re definitely mine”
THATS WASNT THE QUESTION MOM!
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Saying the Bible affirms straight marriage therefore it automatically condemns any other type of marriage isn’t good theology.
Get better frameworks or at least just admit you have no imagination beyond hatefulness and cruelty.
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COVID 19 has officially killed more Americans than any single war or pandemic before it. 707,000 people dead in a year and a half and it's still going.
It is, without exaggeration, the deadliest thing we have ever faced and at this point it is mostly self inflicted.
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Just as an FYI: A police officer has a higher chance of being struck by lightning on the job than they do of being killed at a routine traffic stop. (1 in 500,000 vs 1 in 6.5 million)
Perhaps we should not train them to anticipate death every time they pull someone over.
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I get that becoming affirming often comes at a personal cost and superficially can seem similar to a queer person coming out but it’s not even close to the same.
Besides, not every achievement, tradition, or phrase is ours to take and use as our own. 3/
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If you have made significant shifts in your beliefs and had to make a break with your past/family/community; you have done a brave thing.
It might even be the bravest thing you have ever done.
I’m proud of you and I want you to know it’s ok to be proud of yourself.
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Keanu Reeves, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Jackman, Stanley Tucci, Barak Obama, Jimmy Carter, Pedro Pascal, Lebrón James, Simu Liu, Jason Sudeikis, Brett Goldstein…
This is literally just off the top of my head. Try harder.
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"I'm not a leftist I just think there is more than enough for everyone's needs and we need to figure that shit out."
@ToriGlass
This also is my politics.
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I have found that thing I called Christ among the exvangelicals, atheists, and pagans out there doing the work of bringing good news to the oppressed.
I don’t need aa perfectly manicured theological statement. I don’t think anyone does. I need honest folk doing what needs doing
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American Christianity as it exists today is basically right wing political action group that uses Jesus as a meat puppet sometimes.
What’s your opinion on American Christianity that will put you in this position?
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The greatest thing about dropping the label “Christian” is that I don’t have to constantly say “I’m a Christian but not like…” and explain it for 5 minutes.
I can just say I’m agnostic and we all move on with life.
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Finished
#TheFamily
. It is basically all the implicit things I left evangelicalism for made explicit. If you think it is far fetched I would say you probably haven’t spent much time with evangelical leaders. This is what they want. Consequences be damned.
#exvangelical
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@JoLuehmann
Even subtle shifts in language help tremendously. Instead of Christians saying, “That thing you other faith experience is called Christ” it would be so much better to say, “We call that thing Christ, what do you call it?”
It barely requires a change in belief, just posture.
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then yep, you guessed it, I left the church to sin.
Because your definition of sin calls what is fair, foul and I could not stomach it anymore. I vomited it out of my mouth and haven’t looked back.
I might not pray to Jesus anymore but…
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@masonmennenga
Who is going to tell them that the Spartans ejaculated on each other all the time?
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Seriously, I got 2 degrees trying to make it make sense and over 10 in ministry trying to make it work for people. I’m proud of the work I did but I left because I realized ministry/church had little to nothing to do with “god.”
Why so many stay is a better question.
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@GovMikeDeWine
And there he is. I was wondering when partisan Mike would come back. She is a bad pick at a bad time. We all know it, don’t be like this.
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I am very much the kind of chef that puts olive oil, onions, and garlic in a pan and then decides what I’m making for dinner.
Anyone else?
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If that is sin then call me the worst of sinners. I wear that badge with pride.
I hope that one day we call can.
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How to prevent a “Twitter mob”:
1. Post something that you don’t realize is problematic, but is.
2. Someone says something about it, respectfully
3. You listen, apologize, and try to do better in the future.
Fin
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@StephTaitWrites
@seanfeucht
@HarperCollins
We all have a canceled book at Harper Collins in our hearts.
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@PerfInjust
I can appreciate that you aren’t denying he held racist views and that you are simply upset he experienced the logical consequences of his actions. Circle those wagons harder!
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