#introductions Hello everyone! I’m five years out of church, unable to take it seriously anymore, but missing the fact of community and not exactly stoked about the disenchanted life either. Have been on/off listener to L-ist podcast for a long time.
Married a Canadian, have 2 small kids, enjoy handcrafting websites, programming, & publishing little books. https://joeldueck.com
I also built my own house here in Minnesota, took me three years. I can maybe help with home maintenance-y Qs?
I think when you get out of a cult, you tend to have a distorted view of how unique the harms and lies were that you experienced there. The world inside it was small and has much bad; when you realize the world outside is large and has much good, you want to say Hey! I got out! You'd never believe how bad it is in there! What you don't yet realize is that the world is full of people who are hurting in the same ways for completely mundane, secular reasons.
Also jives with a theory that American “Christians“ are unconsciously something other than Christians in the same way the earliest Christians were Jews who didn’t realize they were something other than Jews
I think I love this phrase “Abrahamic fascists” for religious fundamentalist political tribalists in America. It lumps them in nicely with fundamentalist Muslims where they belong.
Source (reddit comment): https://reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/d79d73/_/f0ydc8y/?context=1
This is pretty cool: a hand-illustrated and -lettered tarot deck based on the periodic table of elements: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1244376122/materia-prima
This is an indie pagan art studio in northern Michigan. I have their “normal” tarot deck and it is gorgeous. Very tempted by this one.
The wedding is in Glencoe, Minnesota which apparently was the subject of a 1985 documentary called “God’s Country” by French filmmaker Louis Malle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_Country_(1985_film) (This fact did *not* come to me courtesy of anyone connected to the wedding)
“Chase Bank forgives all credit card debt for Canadian customers”
Now do it again for everybody.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/flabbergasted-chase-bank-forgives-credit-130519230.html
Parent of two small kids. I make small websites & books. Charismatic (10yo) → IBLP/fundie baptist (20 yo) → Xtian-flavored agnostic socialist (30–now) · he/him