The more people write and talk about this, the more hope I have. Linda Kay Klein’s book was the first thing I read that made me think, “I’m not alone.” Everything in this article and story: yes, yes, yes. I lived it. It’s so hard to explain to people how you can be in this situation. It sounds so crazy and obviously…

The newest episode of “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” podcast from Christianity Today talks about exactly this, and how Mark Driscoll peddled it in his megachurch. Pretty interesting/nauseating.

Oh for sure not unlike tomaters, the difference is night and day on where you get them. My mum grows tons of tomatoes and various berries, so I’m lucky as hell in the respect. Never cared for blueberries until I bought some at this farm on Vancouver Island and they BLUE (heh) my mind.

In the Bible belt Canadian city I lived in for a few years, one “player” co-worker loved dating Christian girls. He wasn’t even trying to be gross, he just told me as fact: “they all give blowjobs.”

Christianity is the greatest example of brain washing and voluntary slavery ever created. Religion truly poisons everything.

My mother summed this whole thing up in four words ..“(Uuch)...Men are such pigs”.

well at least there are way fewer of them in the box now

Agreed.  I didnt get any this year, but a few years ago they tasted like cardboard.  The mint flavor is there, but I can’t taste ANY chocolate in them anymore.

“Christy followed the rules at camp and stuck to a one-piece swimsuit, sometimes with a T-shirt coverup to protect the boys from temptation. Her North American Baptist church wasn’t extreme “

So much this. The last box I bought had greasy-feeling cookies with far less flavor. Actually, all Girl Scout cookies seem to have gotten less good, but Thin Mints (perhaps because of their position at the top of the Girls Scout Cookie Pantheon) have fallen furthest. 

I mean, if I remember the movie correctly, Moses did drop a third tablet.

I had a (super-nice in that churchy way) classmate from high school who was an evangelical Christian and was definitely into the whole purity culture thing, as well the sort of gender roles endorsed by her church. Back when Facebook was a new thing, I remember seeing her post how much she loved the book Let Me Be a…

Not only is it bananas too expect that switch to flip, but what is the reaction if it does? I’m guessing a spouse raised in purity culture and the belief that a pure woman just has sex to please her husband will be very critical of a sex goddess wife.

That’s almost islamic-level “blame the victim”. I hope you’ve recovered; from the way you were treated, as well as the act itself.

“..there is no teaching of consent, safe sex, etc”

Andrea Dworkin got into a lot of trouble for saying that all sex in a patriarchy is rape. Essentially, she was right, because the power imbalance does not go away when you close the bedroom door. At the same time, we all carry the power imbalances that have damaged us inside of our psyches, and as some of the comments…

Stories like this, and crap like the poison spewed online by groups like "Joyful Patriarchy Wife" make me so damn glad I dumped evangelicalism as a teenager, and never looked back.

I was kicked out of the Christian school I attended and was lectured by my pastor after being raped at 15. My rapist went to the same school and they allowed him to finish his senior year via correspondence classes so he could graduate with his class through the school. I wasn’t offered any such opportunity. The…

While my parents certainly had their share of challenges in their relationship before and after I came along, I’ve always been deeply grateful that they weren’t deeply religious or even very spiritual or whatever you want to call it. They were original hippies and I’m SO thankful that I was not indoctrinated with any…

I mean assuming you believe the Bible is accurate. God seems pretty nasty throughout it (genocide of the people in Cannan, death to every first born in Egypt whose home wasn’t marked with blood, allowing Job to be tormented just to prove his faith, Lots wife, etc).