I started to interpret ‘‘love one another’’ as mutually exclusive to ‘‘fuck them kids’’. Also my kid isn’t heteronormative, and she still wanted to do youth activity stuff, the other kids were great to her, also a lot of them aren’t heteronormative either, but she’s old enough and out enough that it’s REALLY obvious to the adults, and she went to one activity and the local leader guy called us with just WILD ass accusations, but it’s a small town, and there’s less than 3 degrees of separation from any random person, so my mom found the kid this accusation was about, and that kid 1. Didn’t remember who my kid was the day after the thing and 2. Had no idea what the leader was saying, and we really realized that our kid can’t be around these fucking psychopaths that think ‘‘liars will be thrust to hell’’ is more a gentle suggestion than a commandment, and ‘‘fuck them kids’’ is an acceptable life motto to stitch onto a pillow.
I gotta tell you, as a guy who was deeply in this muck, they give ZERO shits what the Bible says. I wouldn’t bother with engaging in the theology.
What got you out of it?
Probably the same thing that got most of us out of it. Actually reading the bible.
I started to interpret ‘‘love one another’’ as mutually exclusive to ‘‘fuck them kids’’. Also my kid isn’t heteronormative, and she still wanted to do youth activity stuff, the other kids were great to her, also a lot of them aren’t heteronormative either, but she’s old enough and out enough that it’s REALLY obvious to the adults, and she went to one activity and the local leader guy called us with just WILD ass accusations, but it’s a small town, and there’s less than 3 degrees of separation from any random person, so my mom found the kid this accusation was about, and that kid 1. Didn’t remember who my kid was the day after the thing and 2. Had no idea what the leader was saying, and we really realized that our kid can’t be around these fucking psychopaths that think ‘‘liars will be thrust to hell’’ is more a gentle suggestion than a commandment, and ‘‘fuck them kids’’ is an acceptable life motto to stitch onto a pillow.