Preacher Boy: A Liberty University Graduate Bids Farewell to Falwell and Hello to Atheism by Timothy Michael Short
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What can I tell you guys... you know when it comes to Evangelicals it's always going to be fucked up and this book doesn't fail in that regard. It's always startling how much they just hate everything and everybody even other christian denomination (let's face it they all pretty much dislike each other).
For me it is like reading a fantasy novel because it's almost set in this, at least to me, alternative world. Just to explain, it is a biography of a guy that later became an atheist, so for instance, he writes how young people had fear listening to "youthful" music and by that he means christian rock because people passing by thier house may think he is listening ordinary rock music so they would call them in the middle of the night to tell them how devil is up to get them and their soul is in danger.
It's not just hate but they also find almost anything offensive and often fall in psychotic tantrums over really minor things. Like he writes how some grown man was giving lecture in christian college how he fell into trap of taking his daughter and her husband to see "Finding Nemo" when, to their horror, they discovered it was very offensive movie. That they immediately had to visit their pastor to "heal" them. Not just that but guy also started crying and people clapped him.
But there were also kind of hot stories. Like he noted that in his friend's family their mom wold punish them regularly by beating them on the naked ass, so once his 17 year old sister about to be ass whipped entered her room, not knowing he is inside, with her underpants already lowered down her knees.
And that is also something that seems fucking up with their brains, the fact that they have to look at all women as their sisters and constantly be segregated (because they take St. Paul's guidelines toward women very seriously) seems to work them toward looking at their siblings as sex objects. For instance he notes how guys would be really worked up talking about their sister's bras. They even had a term for that situation and that is "being more enamored with female anatomy then with God".
Interestingly one of the things that got him on path to atheism was "Will and Grace". He would watch in his college days (which was by him liberal college because they were allowed to watch W&G) and was surprised that Will was portrayed as normal person, although he was gay, because he was always told that gays were Nazis trying to take down America. But even that wasn't easy because during the show he himself would sometimes get up and started having his "Jesus cleansing the temple" moment where he would yell at them to stop watching this heathen thing.
I only wish someone would make a TV movie out of this book.
What can I tell you guys... you know when it comes to Evangelicals it's always going to be fucked up and this book doesn't fail in that regard. It's always startling how much they just hate everything and everybody even other christian denomination (let's face it they all pretty much dislike each other).
For me it is like reading a fantasy novel because it's almost set in this, at least to me, alternative world. Just to explain, it is a biography of a guy that later became an atheist, so for instance, he writes how young people had fear listening to "youthful" music and by that he means christian rock because people passing by thier house may think he is listening ordinary rock music so they would call them in the middle of the night to tell them how devil is up to get them and their soul is in danger.
It's not just hate but they also find almost anything offensive and often fall in psychotic tantrums over really minor things. Like he writes how some grown man was giving lecture in christian college how he fell into trap of taking his daughter and her husband to see "Finding Nemo" when, to their horror, they discovered it was very offensive movie. That they immediately had to visit their pastor to "heal" them. Not just that but guy also started crying and people clapped him.
But there were also kind of hot stories. Like he noted that in his friend's family their mom wold punish them regularly by beating them on the naked ass, so once his 17 year old sister about to be ass whipped entered her room, not knowing he is inside, with her underpants already lowered down her knees.
And that is also something that seems fucking up with their brains, the fact that they have to look at all women as their sisters and constantly be segregated (because they take St. Paul's guidelines toward women very seriously) seems to work them toward looking at their siblings as sex objects. For instance he notes how guys would be really worked up talking about their sister's bras. They even had a term for that situation and that is "being more enamored with female anatomy then with God".
Interestingly one of the things that got him on path to atheism was "Will and Grace". He would watch in his college days (which was by him liberal college because they were allowed to watch W&G) and was surprised that Will was portrayed as normal person, although he was gay, because he was always told that gays were Nazis trying to take down America. But even that wasn't easy because during the show he himself would sometimes get up and started having his "Jesus cleansing the temple" moment where he would yell at them to stop watching this heathen thing.
I only wish someone would make a TV movie out of this book.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
