Ex Christian - Blog Posts
Jeanie Tomanek, Assumptions
im literally forever obsessed with this because it implies the following:
The Rapture, as described by Christian Evangelicals, has happened
Parents witnessed their son disappear during The Rapture, but remained atheists anyway (based)
Instead of sinners and nonbelievers going to hell or getting killed, they just... stay on Earth.
In the country i live in, christianity is not the dominant religion, and it’s pretty crazy how the christians always mention religious freedom when another religion tries to convert them, yet the same people would then go around harassing non-christians and trying to convert them.
The worst part is they always target people who are at a low point in their life where they’re desperate and vulnerable. Not surprised though, the bible basically told them to force others to convert under the belief that they’re “saving” people from the eternal abyss of hell or whatever.
I also find it weird how hypocritical they are in general and not just on this specific manner, like how they cherry pick which rules to follow on the bible, like not getting tattoos for example and then they go off wearing mixed fabric (which is apparently forbidden.)
I think it’s weird how there’s a double standard when it comes to atheists. So if i tell a religious person that i’m atheist, they’ll start interrogating me about my life. They would just assume that my atheism is because of some trauma that happened to me.
And then they would assume that atheists know everything about the universe. They would show you a phenomenon or whatever and tell you to explain it. And if you don’t know, they’ll think it’s a “gotcha” moment. Yet they allow it when people who identify with their religion barely know anything about it.
Like you can’t expect an atheist to debate with you anytime. We’re not omnipotent. We don’t know every single thing about the world, just like they don’t know every single thing about their religion. They’re holding us on a higher standard. And the reason is obvious.
For me it was moral perfectionism, i would constantly feel like i'm evil and immoral. I would sometimes become a doormat and let others push me around for the sake of that sweet, sweet, moral high ground. And back when i was religious, i would cope with others pushing me around by thinking "they'll be going to hell anyways".
Open discussion: has anyone dealt with perfectionism that most likely came from years of religious trauma?
Religious conservatives love talking about trans people “mutilating their genitals” and then go off to circumcise their children without their consent 😇
Private celebration in my bedroom during a voice call with friends ended when i got forced to attend church for the new years. How memorable. What a terrific way to start the new years. Please do keep preaching about eternal torture while everyone else is having the time of their lives.
*dips my balls in the holy water font*
Yes, the mythology fandom won’t wish death or eternal torture upon someone because of their mythology, unlike christians.
It's a lot easier to deal with Christians around Christmas when you start thinking about the religion as mythology.
Treat the stories the same way we treat Greek or Roman mythology.
Christians are just all part of the Jesus fandom.
one of the most fucked up things i remember learning was that g*d straight up KILLED all of job’s children. he murdered them. he also took everything else from him and made him ill and all… but he killed his family, the people job loved the most out of everything.
and then after he resolved his immature whose-dick-is-longer contest with satan he was like “here you have more children, no need to thank me”. like…. that’s not how it fucking works you fucking sociopath.
This blog is a space for apostates/ex-religious, self-proclaimed heretics/heathens, secular/irreligious celibates.
With this blog, i post and reblog topics related to severing my ties with god and religion.
Growing up as religious, I was taught that my purpose is to get married, reproduce, and increase the population of believers, which i reject.
I’m on a journey to find meaning through philosophy and celibacy, without needing to depend on relationships or religion to have purpose in life and find individuality.
I love how the bible basically implied that knowing “what’s right and what’s wrong” is apparently forbidden.
Which also reflects on how religious people who blindly follow their faith without questioning it, because questioning is said to be wrong.
Also because questioning it would mean people would leave once they realize all the morally wrong things being preached.
Thankfully, some people still stopped to question.
Questioning what you know shouldn’t be forbidden.
hi all, this is oddly specific but a friendly reminder to check up on your queer/trans friends with catholic backgrounds today!
the pope is dead. there are varying feelings going around this, but many of us are scared because pope franics was honestly relatively considerate of the lgbtq+ community (for a pope), and the next pope is not super likely to be, which affects way more than you'd think in some religious communities and households.
sending love to all 🤍
¡¡TW: Sexual Topics/My dad being creepy/evangelical Christianity!!
No bc one of the worst things ab growing up evangelical is realizing that everyone saw you as nothing but sexual from the age of like 12 onwards. Like my dad wouldn’t let me downstairs w/o a bra *even when he was the only guy in the house*, and I just had to be ok with that??
Like my dad and stepmom offered to put me on birth control when I got a bf in high school and when I said I didn’t want to sleep with my bf my stepmom went “Then why do you hold hands?” Like every person you hold hands with you wanna fuck. (If that’s the case call me a whore-)
And it doesn’t help that I was overdeveloped from a young age (C cups at 12 now a E at 19) and I started binding early on in my teenage years bc of the dysphoria, then KEPT binding bc it stopped my dad’s friends from looking at me and my dad commenting about my chest being “out all the time”
And he thought this way about me since I was a kid. He KEPT thinking about me like that and probably still does today. He never touched me or said anything outright (I mean he did tell my older sister and I that if we weren’t his kids he would date us) but it’s still so unsettling knowing those thoughts were there.