What the Fundamentalist?!

What the Fundamentalist?!

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What the Fundamentalist?!
What the Fundamentalist?!
You don't owe them an explanation

You don't owe them an explanation

or access to your thought process

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Tia Levings
Apr 28, 2021
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Dear Fellow religious trauma survivor,

I used to feel that anytime anyone asked me a question about my deconstruction process, faith, trauma, or spirituality, that they deserved a thoughtful, articulate explanation.

“What’s deconstruction?” they might ask, as if I were a human Google.

“Why do you say your religious experience was traumatic?”

To be fair,…

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