I really love how they keep throwing out that 3 million illegal votes lie Trump pulled out of his ass. Especially since it is known that the GOP has been actively manipulating the districts to insure democrats can’t win in multiple states. Where’s the talk about election fraud over that?

FUCK HER AND TREVOR NOAH FOR ALLOWING HER ON THE SHOW.

That, and people don’t get excommunicated from their congregation if they don’t follow the priest’s every single exact instruction. (Source: not a Catholic but grew up in Catholic community; was never even made to feel bad or ‘less’ about not being a Catholic.)

This is why I like the term “Recovering Catholic.” I’m horrified by most of what the Catholic church stands for but I just can’t help loving all the stained glass and beautiful hymns, you know?

I’m definitely not holding on to it, I hate any notion of a relation to the monstrous church. It just is always there and happens.

You kinda do because some Catholics are more like cultural Catholics.

paying tithing (10% of your income, most devout Mormons will argue 10% of GROSS income, not net)

My parents were Lutheran when I was a kid (Dad’s not really anything now, or maybe slightly Unitarian-ish; Mom’s a Buddhist,) and I looked forward to communion because of the wine. It was a small church, and they would always use Mogen David or Manischewitz concord grape wine which, to my young taste buds, was like rea…

She seems like a good egg.

I am agnostic now but Catholic wasn’t just religion, so you do still call yourself it. Much like being Jewish, non-practitioners still refer to themselves as Jewish from being raised in it, as it was also more a very specific way of life. Especially if you weren’t just raised but educated in it. It’s more of a culture…

Yes— that’s a beautifully succinct way to put it! Exactly what I was driving at. If there’s a pattern that needs to be shown, fachrissakes, don’t stop the repetition.

Other religions also don’t make you pay to find out their theology through a series of expensive courses. No other religion withholds its beliefs and only releases them for pay. It’s a business, not a religion.

That was my thought while reading. Isn’t the more powerful point that the mistreatment is a rote pattern, not a novelty?

....And wears a likeness of the weapon that killed your god’s son around your neck.

Yes! I agree, those gaslighting letters/etc. from the cult are really only helping her.... they throw the craziness into sharper relief.

And I think too, the letters they’re showing from the Church whining and threatening and calling Leah names makes it all the more real. It kind of highlights how true this all is.

You leave my magic zombie cannibal scapegoat god out of this.

The aftermath letters on aetv are pretty insane!

i recommend reading through her reddit ama from yesterday.

It doesn’t HAVE TO break new ground. All it has to do is speak the truth about this cult out loud, in front of a very large audience. And then say it again. It needs to be told over and over again. These crooks and their crimes need the light shone on them constantly, without respite.