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Linda Kay Klein
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“The purity message is not about sex. Rather, it is about us: who we are, who we are expected to be, and who it is said we will become if we fail to meet those expectations.
This is the language of shame.”
― Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
This is the language of shame.”
― Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
“Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS), defined as “the condition experienced by people who are struggling with leaving an authoritarian, dogmatic religion and coping with the damage of indoctrination,”
― Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
― Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
“And so, I chalked up what had happened in the cabin as an anomaly. That cabin mom just didn’t get it, I decided. She didn’t understand what we were all trying to do here. But in the years to come, I would encounter some version of this scenario again and again. My friends and I were told in one breath we were loved unconditionally, accepted just as we were, and headed for Heaven, and in the next we were warned of the evils of feminists, homosexuals, women who had sex outside of marriage, and other Hell-bound individuals. It didn’t even occur to me then that some people in youth group might already see themselves as fitting into some of these categories that I wouldn’t see myself in for years, and how that must have felt to them then, but what did occur to me was this: That unconditional love that I had fallen for in my early days in the church? It was conditional.”
― Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
― Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
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