While I’ve been dealing with this since 2020, I noticed immediately the religious undertones of the trans movement. I grew up in a Christian school and they were my family basically. I miss them now but back then I despised them because I was the one everyone felt sorry for. But, with the trans ideology, that’s a core tenant. You must be a victim, which takes the cake. They thought of everything and it was easy. They just repackaged Christianity and became Jesus. They’re born again as the opposite sex. If I were the devil, I’d do that as Rogan said about a transwoman breastfeeding a child. Think about how the hell that would even happen? Then, for those of us who see it for what it is, we suddenly have no doubt that God exists because we are seeing demonic forces at work.
Wow.... this is an amazing essay. Thank you. This is exactly like losing a child to the Moonies or Jonestown. You have to deny reality, remove all the people from your life who don't agree with you, surround yourself only with people who affirm you. I am a Christian, and my faith instructs me to follow God with my MIND, to research, to explore, to THINK, and to challenge my own beliefs. I pray for all of our children caught up in this madness.
It is very much like having a child join the Moonies or Jonestown. The main difference is that all the adults at your kid's school think it's great and follow the cult no matter what parents say. Oh, and the Federal Government actively promotes this cult.
Sorry, English is my third language and with Greek words I always have doubts and also I relay too much in the corrector but thanks, now I know how to write it correctly!
I'm keeping your wonderful image of religious self flaggelation euphoria in my armoury of similes, love every word of your article. Wish you strength and success as a parent myself. Xx
It seems more like a cult than a religion. A cult will separate you from your family or friends that don't agree, and a cult will also love bomb you to get you in. It also requires some sort of loyalty act to fully be accepted.
Hey everyone, today I learned that castration of children is okay because they don't have a sex because they haven't gone through puberty. FFS I'm just lost on how that gets any sort of traction. It's just effing mental. Infants who don't have an extremely rare disorder have male or female genitals and develop accordingly during puberty. To claim they're not "sexed" until then is complete and total bullshit.
Right. All the Ex Catholics who were brought up in the religion and finally saw the hypocrisy, Misogyny and corruptness of protecting sex offenders are wrong. I don't think so. Turning a blind eye is not going to "save" you.
I've spent quite a bit of time in lefty spaces, and the microscope on the Catholic church coupled with a basically blind eye to the abuse that happens everywhere else is annoying. Any large enough institution will cover up. Look at Sandusky at Penn State, the Boy Scouts, Michigan State and Larry Nassar, both UCLA and USC had sexual abusers as doctors for decades.
I get the anger with them, they earned it. It just shows they're not different than any other humans.
As a former Catholic I don't turn a blind eye to abuse elsewhere. Understanding how healthy systems and leaders operate in secular and religious spaces is important. The difference is that the leaders of the Catholic church make claims in the name of God to be morally superior and added an extra dogma of infallibility. Acts done in the name of God added a layer of insidiousness. Patriarchal authoritarian religion has its own distinct doctrines/dogmas that create spaces for abuse to exist.
They're not unique. They probably did it longer and on a larger scale than any other organization because they're truly global but it happens in any organization.
Right, it does happen in many spaces. Still, I am tired of the "it happens everywhere excuse" as some kind of reprieve for the Catholic version of it. The Catholic Church is the only one I know that threatens kids with eternal torture if they don't confess their "mortal" sexual sins to a priest. Confession was used to groom kids. That is the reality and that piece has not even remotely been addressed.
People are people. Whether they're pastors, priests, teachers, just average joes. We are all terribly flawed. The problem is that when you take an oath to protect, guide, lead and set an example, the hypocrisy is especially stark.
Transgenderism is clearly a religion. Jesus rose from the dead. A man can become a woman. Both are examples of a kind of magical thinking protected in the US by the First Amendment as is my belief as an atheist that they are religious nonsense.
That's fine. But, the state is not supposed to make us all follow a particular religion - as they do with this cult one - whose tenants are enforced at the highest levels - and taught as fact from K - 12 at public schools.
To go with the Catholic theme. The name change and "coming out" is the baptism. dressing as the other sex are the classes in the faith for the First Communion, which is the hormones, the surgery is Confirmation.
Posting online about doubts, and being told they're just internalized transphobia is Confession.
Thanks for magnifying those details. As a Protestant we think of baptism as the big step of commitment as we only baptize adults and public testimony is given. It is kind of sacrilege to compare this evil ideology to sacred rites and rituals that are the time tested disciplines of real spirituality over the last 2000 years. Thanks for the volley!
LOL I spent 30 years in the Anglican Church here in Canada. God has directed me to a .....wait for it....West Indies Pentecostal church near my home in Toronto. I love my new sisters and brothers!!! But remain formed by my 30 years in the Anglican sphere. Just couldn't stay once they were marrying same sex clergy in the church. !!!! Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy. (see the influence!)
While we've always had polarization (read up about 1968 if you don't believe me) it's of a different character due in large part to how the addictive social media platforms feed people either information/disinformation they either love or hate to drive engagement.
I had a bunch of examples of extreme positions from the left and the right, but I deleted that part of the post because I don't want to get into the weeds of the examples. Our motto seems to be "I reject your reality and substitute my own"
Great connection. LGBTQIA++2S is a religion. It has its gods, sacraments (abortion, hormones, and surgery), churches (gender clinics), priests (doctors and phrama), saints (trans influencers), and heretics (TERFs) and apostates (detransitioners). And it definitely has its blasphemy rules, currently codified in law in most of the West.
What it lacks is forgiveness. Grace. In that sense, it bears more resemblance to Islam or Judaism than to Christianity. Like most Leftist liberationist theologies, the oppressed are permanently holy and the oppressors are forever damned. And the practitioners have no moral qualms about treating people accordingly. In the church of trans, there is no sense of the tragedy of human existence, the idea that the line between good and evil runs through each individual. There is no atonement or redemption; there is only us (the good) vs them (the evil).
For centuries we were able to pretend (via our underlying WASP culture) that our politics were about means and not ends. But they're not. Our political disagreements have become openly theological today: https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/all-human-conflict-is-ultimately-theological/ Perhaps this isn't a bad thing; pretending that politics isn't about ultimate values just disguises the most important features of democratic life.
I will say Job is a passage that gets on my nerves. Yeah, probably allegory but the lack of value on the lives of women and children comes through loud and clear. They seem as just props to test Job.
The moderate (and yes they exist) Muslims consider themselves as an Abrahamic religion. They acknowledge Jews and Christians as similar followers of the one true God. For the extremists they basically ignore that. I'll be happy to be educated by a Muslim reader of this who knows better.
Thank you for writing this! It's so important that someone with a personal experience living in a cult-like culture can tell people the truth about the cult of Alphabet Pride. I hope your essay will awake more people, especially the ones who think they help youths consumed by the cult by "affirming" their delusional identities.
Sorry people, I brought a lot of stirring about religion, topic I m not interested in persuing on this forum, but I was just responding to somebody who brought religion to the discussion. We all will find out the truth when we died so I am not worried about that but my cause is more about speak out about children being castrated and sterilized as we speak and in a legal way and with parents support!!!
I think that I am in the most sane forum of all, the ones who can understand the difference and the one that can support parents who are opposing this madness and they don’t have the support they need because… society is in bad shape about what is good and what is bad, and yes Evil is a tangible thing!
While I’ve been dealing with this since 2020, I noticed immediately the religious undertones of the trans movement. I grew up in a Christian school and they were my family basically. I miss them now but back then I despised them because I was the one everyone felt sorry for. But, with the trans ideology, that’s a core tenant. You must be a victim, which takes the cake. They thought of everything and it was easy. They just repackaged Christianity and became Jesus. They’re born again as the opposite sex. If I were the devil, I’d do that as Rogan said about a transwoman breastfeeding a child. Think about how the hell that would even happen? Then, for those of us who see it for what it is, we suddenly have no doubt that God exists because we are seeing demonic forces at work.
Such a well written essay. Thank you so much for being able to articulate the way I feel.
Wow.... this is an amazing essay. Thank you. This is exactly like losing a child to the Moonies or Jonestown. You have to deny reality, remove all the people from your life who don't agree with you, surround yourself only with people who affirm you. I am a Christian, and my faith instructs me to follow God with my MIND, to research, to explore, to THINK, and to challenge my own beliefs. I pray for all of our children caught up in this madness.
It is very much like having a child join the Moonies or Jonestown. The main difference is that all the adults at your kid's school think it's great and follow the cult no matter what parents say. Oh, and the Federal Government actively promotes this cult.
Sorry, English is my third language and with Greek words I always have doubts and also I relay too much in the corrector but thanks, now I know how to write it correctly!
I'm keeping your wonderful image of religious self flaggelation euphoria in my armoury of similes, love every word of your article. Wish you strength and success as a parent myself. Xx
It seems more like a cult than a religion. A cult will separate you from your family or friends that don't agree, and a cult will also love bomb you to get you in. It also requires some sort of loyalty act to fully be accepted.
YES. And a cult CANNOT be questioned, or you are not a true believer.
Hey everyone, today I learned that castration of children is okay because they don't have a sex because they haven't gone through puberty. FFS I'm just lost on how that gets any sort of traction. It's just effing mental. Infants who don't have an extremely rare disorder have male or female genitals and develop accordingly during puberty. To claim they're not "sexed" until then is complete and total bullshit.
Right. All the Ex Catholics who were brought up in the religion and finally saw the hypocrisy, Misogyny and corruptness of protecting sex offenders are wrong. I don't think so. Turning a blind eye is not going to "save" you.
I've spent quite a bit of time in lefty spaces, and the microscope on the Catholic church coupled with a basically blind eye to the abuse that happens everywhere else is annoying. Any large enough institution will cover up. Look at Sandusky at Penn State, the Boy Scouts, Michigan State and Larry Nassar, both UCLA and USC had sexual abusers as doctors for decades.
I get the anger with them, they earned it. It just shows they're not different than any other humans.
As a former Catholic I don't turn a blind eye to abuse elsewhere. Understanding how healthy systems and leaders operate in secular and religious spaces is important. The difference is that the leaders of the Catholic church make claims in the name of God to be morally superior and added an extra dogma of infallibility. Acts done in the name of God added a layer of insidiousness. Patriarchal authoritarian religion has its own distinct doctrines/dogmas that create spaces for abuse to exist.
They're not unique. They probably did it longer and on a larger scale than any other organization because they're truly global but it happens in any organization.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/february/southern-baptist-abuse-investigation-houston-chronicle-sbc.html
https://apnews.com/article/california-los-angeles-religion-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-c19671505d0fe989cc6d32427320f03d
https://www.anglicanwatch.com/?amp=1
Right, it does happen in many spaces. Still, I am tired of the "it happens everywhere excuse" as some kind of reprieve for the Catholic version of it. The Catholic Church is the only one I know that threatens kids with eternal torture if they don't confess their "mortal" sexual sins to a priest. Confession was used to groom kids. That is the reality and that piece has not even remotely been addressed.
People are people. Whether they're pastors, priests, teachers, just average joes. We are all terribly flawed. The problem is that when you take an oath to protect, guide, lead and set an example, the hypocrisy is especially stark.
Transgenderism is clearly a religion. Jesus rose from the dead. A man can become a woman. Both are examples of a kind of magical thinking protected in the US by the First Amendment as is my belief as an atheist that they are religious nonsense.
That's fine. But, the state is not supposed to make us all follow a particular religion - as they do with this cult one - whose tenants are enforced at the highest levels - and taught as fact from K - 12 at public schools.
Of course I agree with you. That’s exactly the message of my comment.
Baptism is the surgery.
To go with the Catholic theme. The name change and "coming out" is the baptism. dressing as the other sex are the classes in the faith for the First Communion, which is the hormones, the surgery is Confirmation.
Posting online about doubts, and being told they're just internalized transphobia is Confession.
Thanks for magnifying those details. As a Protestant we think of baptism as the big step of commitment as we only baptize adults and public testimony is given. It is kind of sacrilege to compare this evil ideology to sacred rites and rituals that are the time tested disciplines of real spirituality over the last 2000 years. Thanks for the volley!
Nobody does rituals like the Catholics, except the Anglicans ;)
LOL I spent 30 years in the Anglican Church here in Canada. God has directed me to a .....wait for it....West Indies Pentecostal church near my home in Toronto. I love my new sisters and brothers!!! But remain formed by my 30 years in the Anglican sphere. Just couldn't stay once they were marrying same sex clergy in the church. !!!! Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy. (see the influence!)
failure to totally agree with someone's ideology is not hate.
when the issue is so polarized, moderate is the radical position.
While we've always had polarization (read up about 1968 if you don't believe me) it's of a different character due in large part to how the addictive social media platforms feed people either information/disinformation they either love or hate to drive engagement.
I had a bunch of examples of extreme positions from the left and the right, but I deleted that part of the post because I don't want to get into the weeds of the examples. Our motto seems to be "I reject your reality and substitute my own"
Great connection. LGBTQIA++2S is a religion. It has its gods, sacraments (abortion, hormones, and surgery), churches (gender clinics), priests (doctors and phrama), saints (trans influencers), and heretics (TERFs) and apostates (detransitioners). And it definitely has its blasphemy rules, currently codified in law in most of the West.
What it lacks is forgiveness. Grace. In that sense, it bears more resemblance to Islam or Judaism than to Christianity. Like most Leftist liberationist theologies, the oppressed are permanently holy and the oppressors are forever damned. And the practitioners have no moral qualms about treating people accordingly. In the church of trans, there is no sense of the tragedy of human existence, the idea that the line between good and evil runs through each individual. There is no atonement or redemption; there is only us (the good) vs them (the evil).
For centuries we were able to pretend (via our underlying WASP culture) that our politics were about means and not ends. But they're not. Our political disagreements have become openly theological today: https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/all-human-conflict-is-ultimately-theological/ Perhaps this isn't a bad thing; pretending that politics isn't about ultimate values just disguises the most important features of democratic life.
Judaism lacks forgiveness??? What the heck? The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is slow to anger and abundant in kindness.
I will say Job is a passage that gets on my nerves. Yeah, probably allegory but the lack of value on the lives of women and children comes through loud and clear. They seem as just props to test Job.
Can a man not be the main protagonist?
Yeah, I realized after I wrote it that it would come off wrong. I really should have just stuck with Islam.
The moderate (and yes they exist) Muslims consider themselves as an Abrahamic religion. They acknowledge Jews and Christians as similar followers of the one true God. For the extremists they basically ignore that. I'll be happy to be educated by a Muslim reader of this who knows better.
I appreciated your thoughtful words and agree sadly
Thank you for writing this! It's so important that someone with a personal experience living in a cult-like culture can tell people the truth about the cult of Alphabet Pride. I hope your essay will awake more people, especially the ones who think they help youths consumed by the cult by "affirming" their delusional identities.
Sorry people, I brought a lot of stirring about religion, topic I m not interested in persuing on this forum, but I was just responding to somebody who brought religion to the discussion. We all will find out the truth when we died so I am not worried about that but my cause is more about speak out about children being castrated and sterilized as we speak and in a legal way and with parents support!!!
I think that I am in the most sane forum of all, the ones who can understand the difference and the one that can support parents who are opposing this madness and they don’t have the support they need because… society is in bad shape about what is good and what is bad, and yes Evil is a tangible thing!
I don’t say that, it is written that they will, everyone will.