Couple that with the active attempts of modern kings trying to destroy education, intellectualism, and independent thought, and here we are.

A bunch of racist kings needed their people to fall in line so they used the church and took the gods of the uneducated masses to control them and suppress revolt. We're looking at generations of people who have been told to never question anything in a book that was heavily revised by these kings.

It's a rabbit hole. It's a blend of good ol' divine rights and just white colonizer shit. The important thing to remember when it comes to evangelical culture and subsequently christian nationalism is that religion and faith is explicitly exploited by systems of power.

I'd sooner equate the man to being a Mexican Junji Ito. Able to portray deeply artistic expressions of the human experience while retaining an unfathomable humanity that is expressly approachable.

🫠 That was my mom's favorite book and boy it explains so much of our generational trauma now that I've stepped out of that place

Yeah. There was some of that, but it was emphasized for us how much of a big fat liar God is because we are all horrible heathens whose faith needs to be tested at every corner in order to be worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven.

And, like... Yo, in that case, God is an abusive dad and I want out thx

(Anyway. Been seeing a lot of young earth creationism shit crop up as a point of discussion and have gotten very annoyed with people trying to use science to convince a bunch of crazy people they're wrong when they need to be asking why the fuck god is a fat fucking liar. Phoenix Wright, save me.)

It won't change their minds overnight. But it will weigh on them. It will keep them up at night. And it will give them pause long enough to ask the questions they have been told to lock away.

Rather than get frustrated with the lack of humanity and basic intelligence of these nutjobs, question what's so good about their god.

As a species, we are hard-wired to want sensible answers. Again, the worst of them won't budge. But most of them need to be confronted about the contradictions.

Ask why they're okay with a god that lies. Ask them why they're okay with a god that claims to love his creation unconditionally but then places conditions on the affection they receive, punishing them when they don't. Ask them why blind faith is more important than virtues.

Empathy and reason don't exist in fundie culture. You're never going to win over the worst of them. But you can start planting the seed of doubt in the masses by emphasizing the cognitive dissonance these cults insist are just "tests of faith."

Fucking hate Christianity dude. Medieval death cult we gave respect to instead of chasing out of refined society similar to ideas like witchcraft and bodily humors.

Trad wives are actresses selling non-nude fetish pornography to sexist men. Far be it from me to shit on a woman's hustle, though. I wish I could pretend to pick berries and get thousands of dollars from losers but I can't do the dead-inside face good enough.

Yep