![]() I was never shamed about the way I dressed or told that I was “tempting” members of the opposite sex. No one ever tried to scare me with stories about being blown up by Muslims, nor was I ever asked any questions about my sexual habits. The worst things that happened to me at church was being bullied by some of my mean spirited classmates from school, and being bored as hell during church services. ![]() I grew up in the mainstream Presbyterian USA Church. ⚖️□□ May 30, 2022Īll of this stuff is mind blowing to me. For yeeeeears after that I was always vaguely anxious in darkened movie theatres, thinking this would be the time i would get judged, doing the wrong thing. ⚖️□□ May 30, 2022Īnd since I was having fun spending tickets on “worldly” things (that were tame as hell) I got sent to hell. In the end the lights shut off and a booming voice informed us we would be sorted into kingdoms by the amount of tickets we had left. I was raised Mormon, and at one teen activity we were given tickets to “spend” at a fair set up in the cultural hall. One woman on Twitter, responding to Nathan Ryan’s tweets, posted this about the Mormons and her experience being raised LDS… I’ve written a lot about things in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that I don’t like. Of course, it’s not just evangelicals who do this stuff. And we have a faith system where men who rape teenagers are given a pass, while their victims are told that they must forgive, be silent, and cover themselves up, so that their brothers in Christ don’t “fall” to temptation. So here, we have a belief system where children are taught that they will either be violently killed for their religious beliefs, or they will eventually go to Hell. If you say you don’t, you get to ‘live.’ If you say you do, they will ‘kill’ you and you’ll get to come back to the chapel, which is heaven in this game, and reunite with your fellow believers.” 9/- Nathan Ryan May 29, 2022 ![]() “If you’re found by a ‘gunman’ you need to decide if you believe in Jesus or not. The first of a shocking series of tweets by Nathan Ryan about his experience at a evangelical church camp… click the link to read the whole thing. It was summer 2002, right after 9/11, and Evangelical religious fervor was hot, hot, hot. □ Since we’re talking about guns and religion, buckle up and let me tell you the absolute most bananas thing that ever happened to me at church camp. This dude tweeted about how, as an object lesson, he and fellow campers did an activity in which they were accosted by men in ski masks, holding fake guns, and forcing them to choose between loving Jesus Christ and dying, or denouncing Christ and “living”. That was just after 9/11, right around the time when Al Qaeda and ISIS were ramping up in the United States. This morning, as I was eating breakfast with Bill, I ran across a Twitter feed posted by a guy named Nathan Ryan, who related the story of going to an evangelical church camp during the summer of 2002. Why are religious people in certain evangelical sects so quick to forgive the sins of the pervy men in their midsts? There are still people who claim Josh was “framed”, even though there is overwhelming evidence that he’s a sick predator. This is coming in the wake of Josh Duggar’s sentencing. ![]() Amazingly, they then yell, “We love you, pastor,” as the woman walks out, almost alone, while people gather around the pastor and “forgive” him. Then we hear a woman yell about how the woman was sixteen, and was complicit. And other men are yelling that they need to hear from their pastor. He calls it an “affair”.Īs the woman is trying to confront the pastor, people are telling her to sit down and be quiet. What gives? These people are Christians? Why don’t they care about the woman who was this man’s victim, when she was just a teenager? Why are they falling for the “pastor’s” line about how he’s a “victim”? In his mind, the teenager was a temptress, and it’s her fault he raped her… but he doesn’t admit to rape. The woman who was his victim left the church with only one or two people comforting her. And instead of comforting the victim, the people in the congregation are quick to “forgive” Pastor John Lowe. But here he was, “confessing to adultery”, minutes after the “flock” applauded when he introduced himself. She reminded him that he “took her virginity”, and did abusive things to her. The pastor’s victim, now a woman approaching middle age, bravely got up (at 9:33) and confronted the pastor. Pastor John Lowe says he committed adultery… but actually, he committed rape.
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