#Fundamentalism

[crazycatsiren]

"I don't have a religion therefore you can't either" isn't any less colonialist than "my religion is valid and yours is not", by the way, people.

#witches of color #people of color #religious people of color #religions #antitheists dni #antitheists are fucking stupid #colonialism #fundamentalism

[redditreceipts]

how about the men who are apparently weak enough to "stumble" when seeing an underage girl's developing breasts are just not fit for Christian heaven and by constantly accomodating them, you are actually getting in the way of God's plan to send only the righteous to heaven? Because a guy who puts his own comfort over the safety of another person isn't that righteous after all and won't get into heaven either way.

(I don't really believe in Christianity btw, I am just trying to follow the argument of not cause men to "stumble" instead of teaching them how to be a righteous person. in my opinion, the latter would get them into heaven at a much higher rate than just making girls vulnerable to car accidents)

#ex fundamentalist #misogyny #feminism #christianity #religious trauma #religion #fundamentalism #fundamentalist christianity #women's rights #radfem #radfem safe #radical feminism #feminist #women's safety #women's liberation #women's lib #radblr #radical feminists do interact #radical feminists please touch

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was playing a VR rail shooter about the War on Christmas made by fundamentalist Christians. While playing it, I remembered they had made another similar game called Wizard Jesus.

#dream #text #game #gaming #shooter game #war on christmas #war tw #christmas #fundamentalism #christian #jesus #wizard #queueueueueueueueueueueueueue

[animatejournal]

Persepolis Directors: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud France/Iran, 2007

#Persepolis #Marjane Satrapi #Animation #Iran #Iranian Revolution #Islam #Women #War #Black and White #Fundamentalism #Iran–Iraq War #Muslim

[iftadwascool]

whos letting these talking christian babies go skydiving with strangers?

#religion #right wing extremism #fundamentalism #internet #questions

[gramarobin]

#protect kids from religion #religious trauma #religious abuse #religion #christianity #fundamentalism #ex fundamentalist #exvangelical #exchristian #shiny happy people #grooming #culty #cults

[powerlineprincess]

Jesus Camp 2006 screenshots.

#jesus camp #jesus camp 2006 #religious deconstruction #religion #christianity #southern baptist #ex fundamentalist #fundamentalism #ex fundie #religious trauma #americana #american gothic #southern gothic #regional gothic #country #rural america #rural south #midwest gothic

[in-sufficientdata]

Ho ho, hey hey

In absolutely no fucking universe is this okay

Incidentally, the original tweet now includes a follow-up that points out the weakest of weaksauce justifications for his rhetoric

It's so weaksauce he sounds sarcastic

Which is actually hilarious but in a sad, angering way

#mine #twitter #antisemitism #religion #judaism #christianity #evangelicals #fundamentalism #exvangelical #this account is gone so i'm not going to make a tag for it #this guy sucks and he should feel bad in an fundamentally existential way #reposting everything from my twitter feed #i'm about to delete everything so get it while it's hot #tweet: 2022 #evangelism

[hussyknee]

Yo, wanna thank you for your support for us. Unfortunately racists are everywhere, and I honestly try and cut that shit out of people, but can't stop everywhere on the internet.

You don't have to thank me, you shouldn't be going through any of this shit in the first place. Lmao if our entire race of people had to stop being problematic in order to deserve help and human rights, we would all be toast. The brainrotted should pretend that other people and places are also like the USA – made up of diverse individuals and communities instead of a hivemind.

Real talk – I fully expected Ukraine politics by and large to shift to the right, because that's literally what happens when there's a war. It's why the Global South is mess – colonization is traumatic and destabilising, which breeds fundamentalist violence and paranoia. The US became hypernationalist af and spent 20 years attacking an entire population because of just one attack. If you call yourself anti-colonial, it's a fucking requirement to understand that people under threat become reactive, militaristic and hypernationalist. It's not human to expect otherwise, and it's fundamental to understanding the creation of the Global South, and the internal violence of minority communities in the Global North. That's why I was pretty disturbed last year by the "Ukraine army has to disavow its white supremacist battalion first" and its counter that the Ukrainian army is unproblematic really. It's so fuckin out of touch with the reality of war. Bro, the country is getting blitzed to hell, people are dying, its all hands on deck, literally anybody that shows up to help is your new best friend, anybody that gets in the way is an enemy. I grew up in a war, we have Aryan supremacists running the country right the fuck now thanks to the Easter Sunday bomb blasts, I have bloody lived this reality my entire life. That doesn't mean my country is only full of Aryan supremacists, it means it's full of their victims, and it means my people, all my people, even the shit ones, need help. If you're only gonna show up for us if we're pure as driven snow, you're an oppressive piece of shit contributing to the colonial power matrix. The right to live free is not contingent on being "deserving", it's intrinsic to being human.

You want racists and fascists to not get a foothold in a country? Then help make it safe to live in.

#asks #war in Ukraine #imperialism #colonialism #fundamentalism #fascism #colonization #global South #Tankies #racism #russian propaganda #militarism #social justice #geo-politics #knee of huss

[titleknown]

So, this is scary.

If you're unaware, NCOSE is a fundie org that used to be called Morality in Media that literally wants to wipe all porn from the internet and they're coming after Reddit.

Which is scary, because they've succeeded in very recent history. They were a major part of the push for FOSTA/SESTA that started the current wave of internet censorship, and they were very likely behind the crackdown on NSFW Steam games from a while ago.

So they've been successful, and they're trying to do it again, and we need to stop them somehow. I just... am not sure how.

I mean, aside from setting fire to their headquarters, but that's probably not particularly viable, so I welcome better ideas.

#ncose #fundies #fundamentalism #censorship #internet censorship

[barrydeutsch]

Shoving It Down Our Throats

A #PoliCartoon by R. E. Ryan and I.

Transcript and commentary at https://www.patreon.com/posts/shoving-it-down-86981160

If you like this cartoon and would like us to keep making them, and can spare it, a $2 pledge at patreon.com/barry is a big help!

#policartoon #political cartoon #political cartoons #evangelicals #fundamentalism #transphobes #transphobia

[admiral-arelami]

The Bonfire of the Thrawnities

When Thrawn critics go all medieval on your ass.

#thrawn #thrawn critical #thrawn police #an historical example of what happens when people police what others read or how they should interpret literature or what they should like #morality police #remind you something? #religious fanatics #fundamentalism #dare I say *fascism*?? #Bonfire of the Vanities #15th-century Florence #Girolamo Savonarola #bad Dominican friars #I wouldn't call Savonarola's Florence a *fascist* city-state or anything #we have all studied more recent and more horrifying examples of fascist states or fundamentalist theocracies burning books #so when people--however well meaning--tell you how you should interpret literature #you may remind them that this kind policing can have devastating consequences when taken to the extreme #and is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes #and religious extremists #sorry not sorry for my horrendous photoshopping skills

[greater-than-the-sword]

What is fundamentalism? I’ve gotten answers that range from ‘its sexism masked as Christianity’ to ‘its the opposite of modern liberal Christianity’

The term "fundamentalism" originated in a faith statement made by a Presbyterian denomination in 1910, wherein the "Five Fundamentals" were listed approximately as follows:

1.      The Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:1; John 20:28; Hebrews 1:8-9).

2.      The Virgin Birth (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23; Luke 1:27).

3.      The Blood Atonement (Acts 20:28; Romans 3:25, 5:9; Ephesians 1:7; Hebrews 9:12-14).

4.      The Bodily Resurrection (Luke 24:36-46; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 15:14-15).

5.      The inerrancy of the scriptures themselves (Psalms 12:6-7; Romans 15:4; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20).

"Fundamentalist" was then soon after considered a test of Christian orthodoxy and a positive descriptor. However, by the 70's the term was so sought after that it became the subject of sectarian disputes.

Interestingly, in the 1970s, some fundamentalists debated with each other over who had the right to use the term. The “pseudo-fundamentalists” debated the ��neo-fundamentalists,” and vice-versa. It also became popular to categorize fundamentalist leaders and ministries as to whether they were militant, or moderate, or modified fundamentalists. I remember writing an article during that time entitled, “Will the Real Fundamentalist Please Stand Up.” (Pettigrew)

Eventually, due to the hot blooded infighting and the narrowing of the meaning and definition of "fundamentalism", the term became synonymous with rigid and sectarian positions, synonymous somewhat with a person who thinks that only those of their specific denomination are true Christians and everybody at every other church is going to hell.

The term caught on with non-Christians and currently is used as a pejorative. Today hardly anybody would identify themselves as a fundamentalist, unless they are able to explain that they hold an originalist position on its meaning, referring back to some older variation of the 5 fundamentals.

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#fundamentalism #christianity #asks

[cookinguptales]

I know that I've mentioned several times how I had to go through a period of relearning once I got out of the religious environment in which I'd been raised, and like... A lot of the things I had to research and learn about all over again were fairly obvious, like climate change. My parents and teachers told me that man-made climate change wasn't real, so I believed them. Once I got to college, I realized that I'd been misled, and I had to relearn the whole topic.

But not all of these things were obvious! I went through this period where I didn't even know what part of my education I should be questioning. Like... what do I even research?? Do I actually understand weather? What about history?

One of the reasons I bring up history is because one of the things my parents told me wasn't real was radiocarbon dating. And I don't just mean "well, these are estimations, can't be used for precise dates, and might be somewhat off due to atmospheric conditions." I got the whole "well, this is unprovable* and goes against the history the Bible gives us so you shouldn't trust carbon dating at all."

(*I was taught that anything that wasn't like... observable in real-time was not provable.)

Let's just say... a lot of my childhood was adults around me hedging their bets like "I'm not saying this is fake, I'm just saying it can't be proven and they're asking us to take this hypothesis as fact! I'm just saying you should question things! And not believe those liberal scientists!"

(carbon dating, evolution, the big bang/quantum physics, whether humans and dinosaurs coexisted, climate change, how hiv works, etc.)

And uhhh I went into archaeology (among other things) when I first started college, so you can imagine how this impeded my studies. lmao

idk, I guess I'm not going anywhere in particular with this. I was just listening to a podcast that's currently talking about the paleolithic period and I still had a gut instinctual reaction of "well, you don't know these things are that old" that I had to squash like a fucking bug.

I definitely understand exactly how the "it's good to be curious and read sources critically" to "question everyone, especially experts" to "those liberal scientists are trying to trick you" to "fake news!!" pipeline comes about. ;;

#at least my parents weren't anti-vaxxers tho! they were never that #the whole rest of the family is now but my parents are very pro-vaccine #cw: #religion #fundamentalism #I guess we can never know anything in this world for sure but all we can do is our best #and build off of the knowledge that we do have #rather than ignoring it #we'll always be refining our ideas as we gain new information #but that's a good thing not evidence that scientists everywhere are trying to trick you ;;

[phroyd]

Fundamentalist Religion Is A Mental Illness

Phroyd

#christianity #fundamentalism #mental illness #religion

[knightingael]

One of my most cringey memories is standing with a group of girls, aged eight, explaining my take-away from the Fundamentalist culture we’d been raised in:

“Lots of girls want to be tomboys, but no boy wants to be like a girl. There isn’t even a word for that. So that must mean that being a boy is much better than being a girl.”

If any girl develops dysphoria after being raised in a culture like this, is it really a surprise?

#radfem #radical feminis #radblr #gender dysphoria #Fundamentalism #Fundie culture #gender critical #I had dysphoria until my early twenties