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so uhhhh apparently i haven’t posted on this account in three months? which is silly because i’m here lurking all the time. but i am thinking about either transitioning this account to be a broader/more personal account, or switching over to a different account. just considering my options right now but it seems like the fundie tumblr world is really slowing down right now /-: i have lots of other interests i would love to blog about though! anyway hi to everyone who has stuck around and sorry for disappearing!

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Esther Bates Q&A

I can respect the first one lol she's like, damn straight I sucked face before marriage

#ugh tired of fundies being like #“i have nothing to do with iblp! #as if that absolves them of their shitty beliefs #it’s not trendy to be a part of iblp #so why tf would anyone be like yeah we are a part of the org the public has named fundie enemy no 1 #except like maybe jill r and the transformed wife #anyway i’m just mad her followers are gonna be like oh good! she’s not in iblp! she must be a good person then!

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David may have been married to Michal but bestie did not give a shit about her, meanwhile his SOUL was BOUND to Jonathan’s??? Sounds pretty gay to me

I think King David was bi. Remember that verse about him and Prince Jonathan?

It'd be more fun and support my theory if he was just gay though so, I vote we start that rumor

#don’t talk to me about 1 samuel 18 thru 20 i am a davithan truther #that is i fully believe david and jonathan were gay lovers

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Breaking News: Bontrager/ Bowers baby names

She named them along with gender in groups from the siblings

Chelsy:

1. Axton

2. Elliott

3. Madelyn

Mitchell:

4. Micah

5. Tucker

6. Brynleigh

Carson:

7. Jubilee

8. Jemima

9. Spurgeon

Joshua:

10. Wallace

11. Winston

12. Lillian

Allison:

13. Malachi

14. Gemma

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I am SO fascinated by occupancy of religious scrupulosity and OCD in religious influencers! I am honestly really impressed that Anneliese is able to recognize this about herself and I hope it allows her to recognize patterns and tendencies that might be maladaptive as a result of OCD and not write off every obsession and/or compulsion as coming from God.

Feminine Not Feminist Instagram: July 1, 2023

I know a few people on here have wondered about this.

#i have personally been dealing with a recent ocd diagnosis and that shit is HARD #good for her for identifying scrupulosity!

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I'm losing my MIND 😭😭 her style is so bad it's almost camp, like I wish she was more well known bc this would be my Halloween costume 100%

Also "Nashville"y"" 💀💀

Edit:

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Chad and Erin did the gender reveal for Baby #6 and it’s…A BOY! Looks like Carson finally gets his little brother

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there is no fucking way that tiffany “revival rey and valor vidal” bonilla named her daughter after a fucking channel of water. girlie 100% thought it would be cute to name her daughter cece chanel like coco chanel, and/or thought being a mother/daughter pair of tiffany and chanel would be cute. but because her boys names have such deep spiritual meanings + connections to family she felt the need to over justify cielo chanel.

Eh.

#she did this to herself #by giving the first two ridiculous names #she now has to give all of them ridiculous names #i’m fed up w her bs

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I like that she opened her reply with "thanks" haha But seriously, good for Jill.

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new follower here, you mentioned that you did your undergraduate thesis on evangelical influencer grifts? i'm a baby sociology student (rising sophomore) and would Love to hear about it.

(the american religious right is one of my special interests)

hiya! i double majored in sociology and religion; my religion senior thesis was about multi level marketing and the mormon church. even though it was a religion thesis and not a soc thesis, i relied heavily upon max weber’s the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. essentially i argued that mlms and mormonism function in many of the same ways, particularly in the emphasis on financial contribution as a mark of a woman’s independence while maintaining traditional gender roles. because that intersection of financial ethic and traditional gender expectations exists in both groups, there is a significant population of women who occupy both groups. and both mlms and the church have used this overlapping population to their advantage: the church benefits when influencers with large mlm followings also promote the church, and many mlms have leaned into the gender roles and limited financial freedom to recruit further distributors.

this is a topic i absolutely love and hope to do more research on if/when i do a sociology phd! and i’d love to expand my research more broadly to evangelical social media usage and the socialization that occurs in evangelical social media space. my sociology thesis was actually also doing sociology of religion, i wrote about how lgbtq+ folks find community and make meaning in progressive christian churches.

#i literally love talking about this stuff #thx for the question bestie!

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When did Jessa come out as being anti IBLP? (genuinely asking not arguing! I'm so out of the loop)

Disclaimer to say she hasn't ever openly talked about it, it's just my personal opinion based on what she's done publicly to support Jill:

1. Jessa doesn't do a lot on social media, so her likes and supportive comments on Jill's posts mentioning IBLP seem to me to be very purposeful. That and when people were shit talking the Duggars for not going to Jill's most recent baby shower, Jessa made a point to say that she WAS there and that Jill does have her support, and pointed out that they do hangout but just 'don't document' every second (she says it's because they're in the moment, my opinion is that the Duggars are very careful about social media and just don't post a lot anyway, so even if they did take pics they don't post them to fend off drama. But that's harder to explain concisely).

2. I think Ben Seewald being instrumental in Jinger's religious transformation is also pretty solid evidence, and per that story Jessa was also involved.

3. I don't think the pants thing is inconsequential either. The Gothard/IBLP/ATI standard of female beauty is very, very specific so I think deviations from that are worth noting (and Jessa has adjusted her modesty standards a little bit, including wearing pants. Something I think would be hard for her to reconcile if she were still practicing, esp given the way she was raised).

That's not to say Jessa is in any way progressive, I just think she's def not the Gothard stan her parents are and I think that applies to a lot of the Duggar sisters. They are just low key about it to avoid rocking the already sinking boat.

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?!?!?!

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Being this conservative must be exhausting. Every 2 weeks you have to get mad and boycott some stupid shit that wasn't even made for you in the first place.

Thanks for the update JackNemy, hope your wedding's outdoors and there's a thunderstorm AND a tornado. At the same time.

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I'm such a sucker for a sappy wedding story and Olivia did so good with their pics!! 😭

#I LOVE THEM

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So you're telling me I could've had Christine Brown officiate my wedding by just sliding into her DMs????????

#literally obsessed with this #also sacramento represent

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And Baby’s name is Gunner James….Thanks, I hate it

#makes perfect sense for them and also very much not for me