Alice Greczyn Instagram – My first #actinggig was an #EasterSunday play when I was four years old and my dad was the senior pastor of our #FoursquareChurch. 👉🏼 Link in bio to my blog #Unaccountable, where you can read this deleted scene from my book, “Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare & Sexual Purity.”
This video clip is from my podcast appearance on @preacherboysdoc, hosted by @eskwarczynski. His goal is to help expose the abuses of #religiousfundamentalism. I was raised #nondenominationalchristian and we certainly did not consider ourselves #fundamentalist in the least. But there was abuse and for me, it was intensely psychological—and often because I didn’t know how to interpret the Bible allegorically instead of literally. Many kids like me grow up unable to hear God themselves and are therefore reliant on the interpretations of what “God” tells other people, and what they’re left to decipher from the Bible itself.
The #Easter story is not one about unconditional love. It’s a story about an egomaniacal narcissist who sent his only child to be tortured and killed as payment for sins he knew we’d commit when he created us. (Or is God not all-knowing, after all?) The penalty for rejecting this belief is eternal torture in hell. This is what I celebrated every Easter Sunday for 21 years until I freed myself. ❤️
I understand that many find overwhelming beauty and redemption in the tale of Christ’s death and resurrection. Truly, I am happy for you. All I ever found was shame and fear—and the utter absence of a God who chose and still chooses to remain silent to me. Please, unfollow if you cannot handle this truth, for I may never stop writing about it.
👉🏼 Listen to my full conversation with Eric by going to the link in bio of @preacherboysdoc and finding episode 279: When God Becomes Chaos. Or, watch on YouTube if you’re more visual!
👉🏼 Link in bio to “Unaccountable” where you can read this deleted scene and more!
#exvangelical #exChristian #atheist #bornagain #religioustrauma #religioustraumasyndrome #purityculture #godisnotgood #actress #Wayward🍎🐍 | Posted on 28/Mar/2024 04:53:05
