I grew up in (and eventually left) a conservative Christian church, so I don’t have a good idea of how aware normal people are when it comes to the fears and obsessions of that community. From stories like these I think that there’s hardly any awareness at all – which is totally fine! Those beliefs are erroneous and damaging! But two things worth understanding if you want to know why these complaints of theirs are so common (and wrong of course):
Evangelicals believe that if the existence of same-sex attraction is kept secret then no one would ever be gay, and
Evangelicals believe that sexy media leads to horniness, which leads to jerking-off, which is a sin – whereas horrifying bloody violence does not.
I grew up in (and eventually left) a conservative Christian church, so I don’t have a good idea of how aware normal people are when it comes to the fears and obsessions of that community. From stories like these I think that there’s hardly any awareness at all – which is totally fine! Those beliefs are erroneous and damaging! But two things worth understanding if you want to know why these complaints of theirs are so common (and wrong of course):
Evangelicals believe that if the existence of same-sex attraction is kept secret then no one would ever be gay, and
Evangelicals believe that sexy media leads to horniness, which leads to jerking-off, which is a sin – whereas horrifying bloody violence does not.
I read the words, but my brain is just screamin “REPRESSED. DEEPLY REPRESSED. AND BITTER.”
I would pity them, but they’ve destroyed too many otherwise innocent lives.
Speak for yourself
🔪 😜