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"Not all Christians are bad!" (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by SharkEatingBreakfast@lemmy.world to c/exchristian@lemmy.one

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Shut up. Shut up. Shut the fuck up.

Christian teachings led me into horrifying situations. It taught me the "correct" way to act. It taught me that questioning God is a sin. It taught me to trust in those who preach the word of God.

Those people abused me. Hurt me. Led me to become the broken person I am today. I'm still suffering. It finally led me to my PTSD diagnosis and I'm fucking struggling.

"Not all Christians are bad!" and "Well, they weren't real Christians!" are things I've been told. Shut the fuck up. If the wolves fit into your flock so well, YOU'RE ALL WOLVES.

Christian teachings led to this. Not """"fake Christians"""".

The church ain't paying for my fucking therapy or my bills that I struggle with since the PTSD has me struggling for steady employment. Fuck Christians and their shitty teachings.

EDIT: Did you know that in a lot of places, clergy are exempt from mandatory reporting laws? Most are also exempt from laws that keep vulnerable people safe from being preyed upon by people in positions of power. People like teachers and therapists have these laws applied to them. Clergy and church """"counselors"""" do not.

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[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 months ago

I've met a few decent evangelical christians. A dozen at most, and I spent the first 20 years of my life surrounded by evangelicals. I think they're people that managed to be decent in spite of their faith, not because of it. That's a hard trick to pull off.

The rest are banal, neurotic messes who simultaneously believe their all powerful god controls everything and will return any day now, and also that they have to police the world on his behalf because he's not doing anything, and also that their faith makes them paragons of morality, and also that they're literal worms with no redeeming value. And that's just the congregation. The pastors.... holy shit.