About the project's creator:
My fundagelical parents homeschooled me since kindergarten. They taught me things like evolution is a lie, homosexuality is a sin, and God loves us even though He'll condemn every unbeliever to hell.
As I got older, I went from a conservative Christian to a progressive one in my late teens to an apostate in my early 20s. During that time, I learned a lot more about my mental illness and admitted to myself my sexual thoughts about women weren't just curiosity. And now that I've had time to think about the ways Christian culture told me the symptoms of my mental illness were signs of my sin nature, I've gotten angry. And when I heard more stories from other people who grew up fundie, the rage got stronger.
And here we are.
About this project
This came about because I wanted to track specific examples of bigotry among Christians and to help people better understand the mindsets that allow harmful power structures to flourish.
Disclaimers
1. This project will likely never be truly finished, only updated as I find more sources.
2. Because of the nature of these documents, they will include archived content that encourages discrimination, hate crimes, and additional abuse.
3. This is about patterns in Christian culture as a whole, not harassing or deconverting individual Christians. As long as someone is not using their religion as an excuse to harm others, I'm content to leave them alone.
4. With that in mind, if something you said is included in an Uncritical Examples section and you've since realized how fucked up it is, get in touch and I will note this.
5. I am coming at this from the perspective of a white American ex-Protestant, so I will be largely talking about those sorts of Christians.
6. Whether or not someone counts as a “true” Christian is irrevelant to me. That's something for Christians to talk about amongst themselves, not a shield against criticism from non-Christians.
7. So for you Catholics and Latter-Day Saints, I have good news and bad news. Good news: I consider you true Christians! Bad news: This is because your record on being awful towards vunerable demographics is not better than your Protestant counterparts.