Thanks for sharing Jenna!!!! I think this is so so relatable for so many to some degree or another! I think we are all thinking through these same things when faced with what we’ve been taught and what we want to do with it! My faith has been super rocky since 2020 (maybe before too) and right now I’m at a good place but I have definitely wrestled with some of the things you hashed out (so eloquently)!!
I found this so so interesting!!!! I didn’t grow up religious but am surrounded by heavily conservative christians (the type we both despise) and JUST wrote a post about this subject last week. I find religion and people’s experience/feelings toward it so interesting — thank you for sharing 🩷
This was very refreshing and comforting to read. My boyfriend actually wrote a book about leaving Christianity and brings up some similar points to you (e.g. seemingly it's more important to believe in an afterlife instead of actually loving your neighbor). It's called "How To Fit In The Christian Society (and why I no longer choose to)" by Dylan Glenn - I feel like you would feel very seen by it. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I know how long it sometimes takes to finally say it!
Thank you as always for your words <3 I grew up Catholic, went to a protestant youth group for over ten years, and long story short, I couldn't be a part of a community that actively hurt my queer friends. I had that same feeling of looking around the pews or at the bible study and thinking, these "believers" out rightly denied love and acceptance to the people I loved most. I couldn't handle it anymore. Now I'm a queer writer and librarian and it truly feels like relief to believe my own thoughts and finally care for myself and my community hurting and fighting like hell.
ugh i hate that we have such similar experiences but i'm so so happy you were able to free yourself from that world! and WE NEED MORE QUEER LIBRARIANS I LOVE U
Thanks for sharing. I’ve had a similar trajectory in my life growing up in a conservative Islamic household, for similar reasons of hypocritical values about human life, and a punitive approach. I still value my beliefs and practice it and believe in it, but my perspective of what the “truth” is has significantly shifted and morphed into something that by conservative standards would be considered blasphemy. I think the truth exists somewhere in between, I think it floats beyond anything we can capture through human-constructed systems and interpretations and language. Because unfortunately it will always be filtered through the limitations of human bias and sadly exploited for politics, not dissimilar to what inevitably always happens with scientific endeavors.
that's what i feel too! like we're raised to believe in this spiritual entity and we're told that it's bigger than humanity and yet somehow the humans who created this religion refused to admit just how fallible the whole thing is - it's maddening! humans are biased and fallible and, according to the church SELFISH, so of course the religion we've spent years crafting is only as good as we are
Thanks for sharing Jenna!!!! I think this is so so relatable for so many to some degree or another! I think we are all thinking through these same things when faced with what we’ve been taught and what we want to do with it! My faith has been super rocky since 2020 (maybe before too) and right now I’m at a good place but I have definitely wrestled with some of the things you hashed out (so eloquently)!!
Came back to say “good” is relative to where I’ve been through the last 4 years but definitely doesn’t look or feel like it did teens/early 20’s!!!
I found this so so interesting!!!! I didn’t grow up religious but am surrounded by heavily conservative christians (the type we both despise) and JUST wrote a post about this subject last week. I find religion and people’s experience/feelings toward it so interesting — thank you for sharing 🩷
This was very refreshing and comforting to read. My boyfriend actually wrote a book about leaving Christianity and brings up some similar points to you (e.g. seemingly it's more important to believe in an afterlife instead of actually loving your neighbor). It's called "How To Fit In The Christian Society (and why I no longer choose to)" by Dylan Glenn - I feel like you would feel very seen by it. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I know how long it sometimes takes to finally say it!
Thank you as always for your words <3 I grew up Catholic, went to a protestant youth group for over ten years, and long story short, I couldn't be a part of a community that actively hurt my queer friends. I had that same feeling of looking around the pews or at the bible study and thinking, these "believers" out rightly denied love and acceptance to the people I loved most. I couldn't handle it anymore. Now I'm a queer writer and librarian and it truly feels like relief to believe my own thoughts and finally care for myself and my community hurting and fighting like hell.
ugh i hate that we have such similar experiences but i'm so so happy you were able to free yourself from that world! and WE NEED MORE QUEER LIBRARIANS I LOVE U
Thank you so much!!! much love
Thanks for sharing. I’ve had a similar trajectory in my life growing up in a conservative Islamic household, for similar reasons of hypocritical values about human life, and a punitive approach. I still value my beliefs and practice it and believe in it, but my perspective of what the “truth” is has significantly shifted and morphed into something that by conservative standards would be considered blasphemy. I think the truth exists somewhere in between, I think it floats beyond anything we can capture through human-constructed systems and interpretations and language. Because unfortunately it will always be filtered through the limitations of human bias and sadly exploited for politics, not dissimilar to what inevitably always happens with scientific endeavors.
that's what i feel too! like we're raised to believe in this spiritual entity and we're told that it's bigger than humanity and yet somehow the humans who created this religion refused to admit just how fallible the whole thing is - it's maddening! humans are biased and fallible and, according to the church SELFISH, so of course the religion we've spent years crafting is only as good as we are