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Betsy Wecker: "Jesus Camp" was my childhood in a nutshell.

Today I spoke with Betsy Wecker, who grew up in an Assemblies of God Church but eventually deconverted after the stories and ideology of the Christian cult slowly fell apart. As we walked through her story, we touched on many points, including: • Feeling lied to by Christianity and the church, and being left wondering what's actually real. • Dealing with resentment and anger over the deception that occurred. • How Christianity demonizes the "self" and self-love. • Unpacking the idea that we should love god/Jesus more than our family. • How Christian teachings lead people to be afraid of being left behind in the Rapture and of demonic activity. • Going on cringy mission trips as teenagers, and the constant pursuit of the "mountaintop experience." • Repeatedly expressing faith in Jesus out of fear that it was not real the first time. • How Christianity uses hell as a very powerful motivator and realizing, as Christians, that most of the people who have ever lived are in hell or headed there. • How learning more about the history of Christianity, world religions in general, and evolution helps to deconstruct Christianity. • How existential crises cause deconstruction to pick up speed. • How deconversion is, for some people, a gradual letting go, instead of a specific moment or day. • Admitting the ridiculousness and arrogance of thinking we had all the answers when we were Christians. • Realizing Christianity is a bizarre blood magic human sacrifice death cult. • The idea of how questioning god or discrepancies was never encouraged, and Christians are instead asked to just believe and trust. • Deconstructing the disturbing idea of how "blessed" Christians are, especially in America, while kids elsewhere are starving to death or dying of disease by the thousands each day, as if we have some kind of special favor from Yahweh while millions endure horrible suffering. • Realizing that the Yahweh character is psychopathic and narcissistic in the ways he acts and in his nonstop demand to be worshipped. • How purity culture / shame culture leaves you feeling cut off from your own body. • How virginity culture leaves those who have lost their virginity feeling like "damaged goods." • How purity culture treats women to be responsible for men's thoughts, and to avoid being a temptation and stumbling block to men. • Escaping the darkness of Christianity and the subsequent peace and thriving that occurs when we deconvert from Christianity. Many thanks to Betsy for sharing her story and for her openness in dealing with difficult topics. ______________________________________ Connect with Betsy on YT:    / betsylikesya   If you're not familiar with "Jesus Camp" [proceed at your own risk!]    • CHILD ABUSE? YOU DECIDE - jesus Camp   ______________________________________ Your support for my channel, Harmonic Atheist, is very appreciated.   / harmonicatheist   The more support I receive, the sooner I can do this full time! --Tim