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Tattoos, anti-Semitism, and sexual abuse

March 4, 2023March 7, 2023 / Yvonne Aburrow / Leave a comment

The 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”

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023 / Yvonne Aburrow / Leave a comment

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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Religious trauma

September 27, 2022 / Yvonne Aburrow / Leave a comment
Religious trauma

Shattering fundamentalist worldviews

September 6, 2022September 22, 2022 / Yvonne Aburrow / 4 Comments
In 1983, I stopped being a fundamentalist Christian and became an atheist. I moved from one rigid worldview to another one. Gradually I started exploring spirituality and Paganism, which undermined my atheism. But how do we move away from fake certainty and embrace uncertainty?

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