The God-forsakin' Blog

 Often, you'll see conservatives arguing that schools should only teach facts and important skills, rather than spending tax money to indoctrinate kids into an ideology. And in principle that's correct. But then the schools try to teach facts: "Gay people exist, you shouldn't be shitty to them." "Black people exist, your grandparents were shitty to them." "All the available evidence indicates that the universe is MUCH older than 6,000 years, and that we descended from ape-like creatures." "Human behavior affects the climate, we should probably do something about that." "Vaccines do not cause autism, but the diseases we vaccinate against do cause death. Also, only an asshole would believe that your autistic classmate would be better off dead." And they try to teach important skills: Critical thinking. The scientific method. How to understand history as it really was rather than through the lens of nationalism. How to know the...

Talking with people who've experienced religious trauma, I realized something: The trauma isn't a bug, it's a feature. The whole POINT is to create fear, and then sell your religion as the cure for the disease you created.

 Of all the untrue and absurd things that white American Evangelicals desperately want to believe, perhaps the most absurd is that they're an oppressed and persecuted minority.