Fuck Evangelicalism. Fucking hate the way it destroyed my childhood and continues to poison my family.

I'm sick and tired of the way they continue to ignore my transition even two years in. I don't know if I can continue to be in contact with them anymore and it breaks my heart. I don't know if I can deal with another goddamn holiday season of Christian bullshit.

Fucking hate that my dad is a pastor. Took so much shit away from me because of a mass delusion.

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Yeah that kind of religious programming makes their disciples believe that science, medicine, and even very basic logic is evil. It's how the religious and their texts can have lots of conflicting information and change their minds about things when it profits them.

Deprogramming that level of religious belief when they have no ability to think logically is difficult. It always surprised me in college that basic logic was a class and that so many people had trouble with it even though it's just proving without a doubt that if a then b,. Then distracting the flow of thought a bit so there's not a carryover of thought inertia Then proving to them that a is true and having them agree and asking if b is true without providing direct evidence of that.

And they can't use that connection that we just talked about to understand it in real world situations. Even if they just agreed on every other part.

It's infuriating and why I no longer try to convince people of anything if they aren't capable of logic.

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