What the Fundamentalist?!

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The Myth of the Hardened Religious Trauma Survivor

The Myth of the Hardened Religious Trauma Survivor

Allowing for the breadth of the human experience is not a fundamentalist thing

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Tia Levings
Mar 03, 2024
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There’s a stereotype in religious circles of people who “leave the faith” or “have a victim mentality.” It’s that they’re hard and bitter, barely containing unprocessed anger and grief, resentful and pessimistic. These words are synonyms for sin. The image is melodramatic and a visual thought-stopping cliché. Case in point: when I searched for “bitter women” images, almost all the results were Christian scold pieces thinly disguised as “encouragement.”

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