escaping fundamentalism
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High glycemic religion
Read more: High glycemic religionReligion can be divided into two types, high glycemic index and low glycemic index. High glycemic index gives you a big rush where everything seems really great and then you come down with a big crash afterwards. Low glycemic index is slow and steady, nourishes the soul, and keeps you going through the hard times.
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Theological questions
Read more: Theological questionsReaders of Changing Paths may wonder why I chose not to address theological questions like the existence of God, what happens in the afterlife, and related questions. The first part of the book is aimed at people seeking to leave a variety of high-control traditions, which could be anything including fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist Islam, high-control…
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Review from Suburban Witchery
Read more: Review from Suburban WitcheryI had a wonderful chat with Hana the Suburban Witch yesterday for her podcast, and today she has posted a wonderful review of Changing Paths (she was one of the advance readers and is quoted on the cover). “Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow is a down to earth and extremely practical book on the complexities…
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Tattoos, anti-Semitism, and sexual abuse
Read more: Tattoos, anti-Semitism, and sexual abuseThe Walrus has a new article about the Meeting House, a Canadian mega church. Personally I find even the name triggering, as that’s what the Plymouth Brethren call their churches. So it’s kind of ironic that this one was meant to rise above the scandals of conventional churches.
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I’d rather be “left behind”
Read more: I’d rather be “left behind”There’s a good article in The Guardian today about the nasty psychological effects of being exposed to constant propaganda about the rapture and being “left behind”. Trigger warning if you’ve been exposed to that kind of bad theology. Thankfully I left the evangelical nonsense before the trend for making these movies happened.
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Leaving the Mormons
Read more: Leaving the MormonsAn in-depth resource on leaving the Mormons: Recovering Agency: Lifting the veil of Mormon mind control. Luna Lindsey Corbden was born into the LDS Church and left the faith in 2001, at age 26. They live in Washington State and write about topics of interest, including psychology, mind control, culture, and autism. They also write…
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De-baptism
Read more: De-baptismThere’s been a discussion on the internet recently about de-baptism. Here’s an excellent article about it from John Beckett over at Patheos: Debaptism: You Probably Don’t Need It, But It Can Be Done …you can’t unpour water. The baptism happened and we can’t pretend it didn’t.But we can reverse its effects. John Beckett Further thoughts…
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A change of perspective
Read more: A change of perspectiveThere was a guy in one of my classes — let’s call him Jonathan — who was openly gay. I had never knowingly interacted with, or even seen, anyone gay before. … He just stood and sang, a capella. It was honestly beautiful in its own right — Jonathan has a great voice. But, as…
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Review: Cultish
Read more: Review: CultishThis book is an excellent overview of the languages of cults, and what attracts people to them.
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