Okay but like, if your kid does tell you they're a christian, yeah, I'd be pretty weirded out if I were you? Because the methods Christians use to get converts are fundamentally founded in guilt they force on you, fear they create in you, gaslighting about whether you're *really* happy or have meaning in your life without god, and lies about philosophy, cosmology, etc. And most versions of the belief system has some really horrible brainworms and implications, lot of truly reprehensible scriptures floating around. So I would actually spend some time at least asking them why they converted and which branch of Christianity it was they're a part of now, and maybe hoping to stir some critical thinking if it turned out they got taken in by the "we're all sinners who deserve punishment but Jesus can forgive us" shit or whatever. Got in trouble for this on FMA because that's "bigoted against Christians" and "indoctrinating your children" or whatever but they can fuck the hell off with that bullshit. Yeah #NotAllChristians but 99% of people aren't gonna be converted by Quakers or christian anarchists. I'd be just as concerned if my hypothetical kid converted to any other dubious and usually-bad ideology — like Marxism-Leninism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YLzcNHfn38

This story got under my skin. That is a traumatic event and it happens to a lot of LGBTQ kids too. It is child abuse and should be regarded as a criminal act. Disinheriting a child because they don't believe your preferred superstition and won't go along with your right-wing ideology, educationally neglecting them to keep their ideas pure, is child abuse. It should be a crime.

Christianity is a destructive, evil ideology from the dark ages that should be abandoned and not embraced. It is a false belief. Your cool church where the pastor is a lesbian with a nose ring and a mohawk is not what #Christianity is to most people and bringing up #notallChristians in #leftists or #queer spaces is not welcome. American Christianity is full of fascists. It's not materialism. It's a lie.

Yeah, I know Martin Luther King Jr was a preacher. I don't care. Most Christians are fascists or scammers these days. Some of them are Black like Creflo Dollar. The Black church cannot be trusted either. They have molesters and homophobes too. They beg for private jets while their congregation lives in poverty.

Christianity should not be redeemed by radicals or liberation theologians. It must be destroyed.

Not everyone who believes in God is reactionary but believing in God is a reactionary belief. It's false. In practice, Christians are reactionary more often than they are not and not wanting Jesus shit in our spaces is completely valid given all the horrors they inflict on queer folks. Respectfully, for some of us God, Jesus, and the church being back horrific memories and present-day oppression. You shouldn't discount that as mere fedora tipping. Christianity is the boot on our neck and I'd see it die out than redeem it because of a tiny number of cool preachers.

I say this as someone who tried. I tried so hard to give it another chance not long after I came out. But the genocidal campaigns against us completely soured me as they are all rooted in the same false belief. When you look at who is behind these campaigns, it is always the church. During my phase of being a Christian, my Dad died and I wanted to visit a church down in Florida because it just happened to be Ash Wednesday. Down there, there were no "good" churches, it was all hellfire and homophobia.

Because that is true Christianity. That is why most Christians are fascists. It is a backward and reactionary belief system for traditionalists and authoritarians. To say otherwise is real revisionism, not liberation theology or other attempts to squeeze round pegs into square holes.

Also, where was God when Florida's laws drove me from the state? Hell, where was God during the Holocaust? There is no God, end of story. We live in a dark, vast, and uncaring universe. And I'll be glad when I'm dead. That's it. God is fake. It's false hope, false consciousness. We need a revolutionary consciousness, not distractions and lies. Those are the justifications for xenophobia, transphobia, and genocide.

@baruch @jewwhohasitall They do that for their Christmas, but #notallChristians. In Australia when I was a child we had pantomimes in our midsummer (your winter), which are Purim spiels that use fairy stories, and not the Megillat Esther.

@AnonymooseGuy @scottpaton so tired of #NotAllChristians. Were the crusades "anti-Christian"? The Spanish inquisition?
Antisemitism is quite literally FOUNDATIONAL to Christianity. Christianity is BY DEFINITION a supercessionist religion; this fact is encoded in the terms "Old Testament" vs. "New Testament".
If you practice a different kind of Christianity, great, glad to hear you're not a monster. That doesn't mean the monsters are any less Christian than you.

My own take on #transgender friendly #Christians is that in the world that we actually live in, irrespective of the text of the #Bible, the overwhelming bulk of hostility and political power opposed to us is coming from Christian nationalists and that while leftist Christians exist, they are a small minority who don't do much beyond saying #notallChristians when we complain about our oppression at the hands of the Christians with actual political power. Their presence legitimizes #Christianity.

@MinAdrianne

To be fair, Christianity isn't the cause of bigotry, it just provides cover.

Nobody's bigoted just because (their interpretation of) the Bible says to be. They're bigoted and they use (their interpretation of) the Bible as justification.

In the spirit of hating the sin, not the sinner, I say hate the bigotry, not the religion being used to excuse it. #NotAllChristians

#PaganSplainer r/pagan over on Reddit is a bit like a rambling, dimly lit occult shop full of crowded shelves and odd corners, where you might find something delightful or something that makes you go 'wait, WHAT?' or a Christian with a 'survey' and some talking points who wants to convert people (#NotAllChristians) but one phenomenon you undoubtedly will encounter is the Very New Pagan who wants to tell you about their hereditary powers.

@johndoepe @mstreiffer

Two fun facts:
1. #NotAllChristians! Some of them observe #Shabbat on the correct day.

2. According to #Christian #halacha, their days do actually start at the normal time. It’s how so many of them can go to football games and such on Shabbat, because they went to Christian Kabbalat Christian Shabbat services!

But yes, it’s a huge hassle for those who don’t know their own halacha.

#MedinatAmerica

Everyone constructively critiquing/destructively criticizing christianity and/or christofascism,

whether any kind of christian, ex-christian, or neither

is needed and can add something to the conversation,

though I also award personal bonus points to those who preface those critiques with specific language like "evangelical", "conservative", "liberal", "reactionary", and "fundamentalist".

This isn't a #notallchristians thing- as a christian I'm quite #yesallchristians about the problems most anarchists diagnose in christianity that are rooted in liberalism, yt supremacy culture, cisheteropatriarchy, colonialism, exploitation, and domination (and a lot of which originated from the Imperial Church or sprung up in tandem with it over the millennia in a chicken-and-egg sort of deal)

it's just a nerdy thing- and I'm very much for democratizing information about religious history and political theology

because for deconstructers like myself this shit goes so deep. And having that language can be really liberating. I can speak from experience on finding value in the term "purity culture" for example.

And just like how for white ppl today the whiteness deconstruction process is an ongoing thing,

religious trauma and the teachings of domination are really deeply embedded in those of us raised in the sociological entity called the church.

I'll do another post sometime about my thoughts on church,

but suffice it to say for now that I'm not necessarily against organized religion, but always want to ask *how* a religion is organized. Because articulation of mutually edifying relationships in a spiritual community is good, and domination is cancer.
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The goalposts kept moving: sure, I might have observed one person doing a thing, but that doesn't make it an established practice. Sure, this might be a widely recorded practice, but that doesn't make it an official position of the church. Sure, that might be written as an official position but that doesn't mean people actually do it. And which "church", exactly? #NotAllChristians