#gonna be a lil anti-church for a sec

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#Kayla tag rants #ignore me #gonna be a lil anti-church for a sec #@ my mom… I love you but you realize making me watch Christian movies #whose plots are extacly my points of why I DON’T like the cult. isn’t going to make me want to convert back. #like you realize that’s gonna make me double down on hating it. right?? #like I get how you see the movie where the youth pastor turned the bullying atheists into Nice People and them rallying behind him #in his defense as a good uplifting thing. I really do. but also #you realize they make these movies to convince kids who really ARE hurt by their pastors to not speak up about it bc they’ll be hated right? #you realize this teaches everyone else not to believe them and to follow their one Good Pastor specifically as the ultimate leader #and to harass the hurt ones into silence bc He’s a Good Guy and a Great Teacher right? #you realize they’re glorifying a leader and giving him the power and standing to abuse it right? #and you realize that it doesn’t take a Bible verse to be a good person and not all Bible-readers are good either right? #like these kids who don’t care about memory verses could just Not Be Assholes but they’re written to be assholes to promote the cult. right? #you realize at least one leader in every church we’ve attended has hurt kids in the congregation and they tried to be quiet about it right?? #like. that’s part of why we left them. you KNOW this is a scam too. right??? #im just. ughh….