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AstroMancer5G (she/her)<p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a><br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/Learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Learning</span></a> about different <a href="https://spore.social/tags/IdentityLabels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IdentityLabels</span></a> is more than just discovering a <a href="https://spore.social/tags/category" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>category</span></a> of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>people</span></a> who are "out there" somewhere. It is that, and that is important as well, for appreciating the vast and intricate <a href="https://spore.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a> of our species and for holding <a href="https://spore.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/liberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberation</span></a> struggles. But it's also about <a href="https://spore.social/tags/understanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>understanding</span></a> new lenses to view our own selves and <a href="https://spore.social/tags/experiences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>experiences</span></a> through, and how new <a href="https://spore.social/tags/concepts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>concepts</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/apply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apply</span></a> or don't in our own <a href="https://spore.social/tags/lives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lives</span></a>. That's <a href="https://spore.social/tags/subversive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>subversive</span></a> to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/cisheteronormativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cisheteronormativity</span></a>.</p>
EndemicEarthling<p>3/5<br>4. Bullying and abuse of power in intra-church disputes. More often than you might expect in an organisation allegedly founded on the life and teachings of a victim of abused power, many of those who dominate church life do so with the typical tactics of the bully: grooming, intimidation, gaslighting, manipulation, dog-whistles, merely performative contrition (when absolutely necessary), and occasionally outright violence.</p><p>5. Embrace of a hard-right political agenda (or willingness to ally themselves with the same): creeping <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a>, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ClimateDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDenial</span></a> (or its even more insidious cousin <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ClimateDelay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDelay</span></a>), <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xenophobia</span></a>, denial/minimisation of colonial violence and its legacy, oppression of the poor, victim-blaming, and generally a more-or-less vociferous support for a status quo of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a>, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a>, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/neocolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neocolonialism</span></a> and <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriarchy</span></a> + <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/cisheteronormativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cisheteronormativity</span></a>.</p><p>There are other factors, but in my experience talking with people who have left the church, or who have stopped identifying as Christian, or who have abandoned faith (NB these three are not synonymous), almost 100% cited one or more of these five reasons (often all of them) amongst their primary motives.</p>
Amelia Bæddelia 🏳️‍⚧️Being individually <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/cis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cis</span></a> and/or <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/het" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>het</span></a> is not the problem. The problem is <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/Cisheteronormativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cisheteronormativity</span></a>: The idea that being <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/cishet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cishet</span></a> is inherently superior and more desirable than other states of being, that being cishet is the default and the norm from which other states of being deviate, that those other states of being should be cured or prevented. <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/queerliberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerliberation</span></a> <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/transliberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transliberation</span></a> <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/heteronormativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heteronormativity</span></a> <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/cisnormativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cisnormativity</span></a> <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/transfeminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transfeminism</span></a> <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/anarchaqueer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchaqueer</span></a> <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/queernanarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queernanarchism</span></a>
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