Status Updates From Holy Disobedience: Sex, Sin...

"We were supposed to have compassion for everyone, but we also absorbed the unspoken teaching that we were better than everyone else."

"Keeping secrets is the only way people in high-control religions can live with themselves, can live with their families. The only way the organization can live with itself."

Just found out that prolific American serial killer Robert Lee Yates is a Seventh Day Adventist.
Wow! The more you know...

"When it’s hammered into you that your only worth is your sexuality, the details don’t really matter. Prim virginity or defiant sluthood, whatever; two sides of the same coin. It’s all still the only currency that defines me."

David creeping on and raping Bathsheba and killing her husband to have her; the Levite giving his wife to a city of men to rape...The Bible amounted to a male sadist’s wet dream and a blueprint for perfect masochism as a woman: submit, be abused, be traded, be raped; sacrifice yourself, your children, your loves, your life.

"Healing from Adventism, or any high-control religion, isn’t a straight path. It comes in waves: moments of anger, clarity, unexpected nostalgia, and wrestling with the past."