Okay but like, if your kid does tell you they're a christian, yeah, I'd be pretty weirded out if I were you? Because the methods Christians use to get converts are fundamentally founded in guilt they force on you, fear they create in you, gaslighting about whether you're *really* happy or have meaning in your life without god, and lies about philosophy, cosmology, etc. And most versions of the belief system have some really horrible brainworms and implications, there're a lot of truly reprehensible scriptures floating around. So I would actually spend some time at least asking them why they converted and which branch of Christianity it was they're a part of now, and maybe hoping to stir some critical thinking if it turned out they got taken in by the "we're all sinners who deserve punishment but Jesus can forgive us" shit or whatever. Got in trouble for this on the Freed Market Anarchism discord like two years ago because that's "bigoted against Christians" and "indoctrinating your children" or whatever but they can fuck the hell off with that bullshit. Yeah #NotAllChristians but 99% of people aren't gonna be converted by Quakers or christian anarchists. I'd be just as concerned if my hypothetical kid converted to any other dubious and usually-bad ideology — like Marxism-Leninism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YLzcNHfn38

This story got under my skin. That is a traumatic event and it happens to a lot of LGBTQ kids too. It is child abuse and should be regarded as a criminal act. Disinheriting a child because they don't believe your preferred superstition and won't go along with your right-wing ideology, educationally neglecting them to keep their ideas pure, is child abuse. It should be a crime.

Christianity is a destructive, evil ideology from the dark ages that should be abandoned and not embraced. It is a false belief. Your cool church where the pastor is a lesbian with a nose ring and a mohawk is not what #Christianity is to most people and bringing up #notallChristians in #leftists or #queer spaces is not welcome. American Christianity is full of fascists. It's not materialism. It's a lie.

Yeah, I know Martin Luther King Jr was a preacher. I don't care. Most Christians are fascists or scammers these days. Some of them are Black like Creflo Dollar. The Black church cannot be trusted either. They have molesters and homophobes too. They beg for private jets while their congregation lives in poverty.

Christianity should not be redeemed by radicals or liberation theologians. It must be destroyed.

Not everyone who believes in God is reactionary but believing in God is a reactionary belief. It's false. In practice, Christians are reactionary more often than they are not and not wanting Jesus shit in our spaces is completely valid given all the horrors they inflict on queer folks. Respectfully, for some of us God, Jesus, and the church being back horrific memories and present-day oppression. You shouldn't discount that as mere fedora tipping. Christianity is the boot on our neck and I'd see it die out than redeem it because of a tiny number of cool preachers.

I say this as someone who tried. I tried so hard to give it another chance not long after I came out. But the genocidal campaigns against us completely soured me as they are all rooted in the same false belief. When you look at who is behind these campaigns, it is always the church. During my phase of being a Christian, my Dad died and I wanted to visit a church down in Florida because it just happened to be Ash Wednesday. Down there, there were no "good" churches, it was all hellfire and homophobia.

Because that is true Christianity. That is why most Christians are fascists. It is a backward and reactionary belief system for traditionalists and authoritarians. To say otherwise is real revisionism, not liberation theology or other attempts to squeeze round pegs into square holes.

Also, where was God when Florida's laws drove me from the state? Hell, where was God during the Holocaust? There is no God, end of story. We live in a dark, vast, and uncaring universe. And I'll be glad when I'm dead. That's it. God is fake. It's false hope, false consciousness. We need a revolutionary consciousness, not distractions and lies. Those are the justifications for xenophobia, transphobia, and genocide.

Everyone constructively critiquing/destructively criticizing christianity and/or christofascism,

whether any kind of christian, ex-christian, or neither

is needed and can add something to the conversation,

though I also award personal bonus points to those who preface those critiques with specific language like "evangelical", "conservative", "liberal", "reactionary", and "fundamentalist".

This isn't a #notallchristians thing- as a christian I'm quite #yesallchristians about the problems most anarchists diagnose in christianity that are rooted in liberalism, yt supremacy culture, cisheteropatriarchy, colonialism, exploitation, and domination (and a lot of which originated from the Imperial Church or sprung up in tandem with it over the millennia in a chicken-and-egg sort of deal)

it's just a nerdy thing- and I'm very much for democratizing information about religious history and political theology

because for deconstructers like myself this shit goes so deep. And having that language can be really liberating. I can speak from experience on finding value in the term "purity culture" for example.

And just like how for white ppl today the whiteness deconstruction process is an ongoing thing,

religious trauma and the teachings of domination are really deeply embedded in those of us raised in the sociological entity called the church.

I'll do another post sometime about my thoughts on church,

but suffice it to say for now that I'm not necessarily against organized religion, but always want to ask *how* a religion is organized. Because articulation of mutually edifying relationships in a spiritual community is good, and domination is cancer.