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1. 🦀🦍≢ (carcinopithecus@x0r.be)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jun-2022 10:18:11 UTC 🦀🦍≢

   • Sean Tilley
   • Dr. Quadragon ❌

   @sean as someone who basically grew straight from That kind of evangelical fundie xianity to That kind of atheism i've been pretty much double-vaxxed against any sort of spirituality - the angel on one shoulder screams i'm associating w/demons & going to hell, the other angel shames me for wasting my life on empty ritual+nonsense

   2014-21 really helped fight the latter but that Fear in the former never really left

   what @drq describes has been the most comforting option i've got

   • Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jun-2022 10:18:10 UTC Sean Tilley

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     @carcinopithecus Yeah, 100% same. My girlfriend, who is trans, has expressed some interest in finding a liberal-leaning church to go to, for community, spiritual connection, and a sense of belonging. Doesn't even have to necessarily be a Christian denomination.
     
     I'm supportive of the idea on paper, but want nothing to do with the kind of people that require rigid conformity and use shame as a weapon. Being that we're both pretty queer, neither of us want to be anywhere near that shit.
     
     I don't know, I guess she and I both are dealing with existential crisises from different angles, and feel restless and frustrated.
     Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 likes this.
   • 🦀🦍≢ (carcinopithecus@x0r.be)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jun-2022 10:18:11 UTC 🦀🦍≢

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     • Sean Tilley

     @sean on that note, it occurs to me that this same megastructure of ideas, w/its specific way (whether Evangelical or Orthodox) of understanding how christians can believe the gospel to be objectively true, also leaves me effectively "double-vaxxed" against any denomination of xianity that does *not* actively teach being queer is a sin that must be repented of & abhorred

     i respect xians from better denoms but will never understand them