I grew up with a religious mother, and a father that obeyed my mother\u2019s wishes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Church was top priority,<\/span> Us \u201choly\u201d Lutherans would collect coats and hats and gloves for the homeless,<\/span> I sang songs about love and unity,<\/span> I would sip on a juice box while watching a 90s VHR tape about pro-life propaganda bullshit.<\/span> I was young and obedient at the time,<\/span> \u00a0<\/span>Why wasn\u2019t he afraid of eternal damnation?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The stained glass crucified Jesus I spent 15 years of my life staring at,<\/span> It took public high school and partial maturation of my prefrontal cortex,\u00a0<\/span> I don\u2019t want to take communion with people that use racial slurs on social media,<\/span> To make this generalization about Christianity and all churches would be ignorant\u2026\u00a0<\/span> Sofia Link I grew up with a religious mother, and a father that obeyed my mother\u2019s wishes.\u00a0 Church was top priority, Expect the times when my brother would have a little league game on Sunday mornings.\u00a0\u00a0 Us \u201choly\u201d Lutherans would collect coats and hats and gloves for the homeless, But the older women would clutch Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/723"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>Expect the times when my brother would have a little league game on Sunday mornings.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>But the older women would clutch their purses and give merciless stares when an unshaven man who carried his belongings in his bag,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Would show up to service.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>But was told by my Sunday School teacher,<\/span>
\n<\/span>That gay people needed to find Jesus.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>The confirmation class was separated by sex for a reason.<\/span>
\n<\/span>It was so our pastor could preach to 11-year-old girls about how abstinence is our only birth-control option.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>And angry at my father for falling asleep during the sermon.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Was the first image that crept into my mind when a boy put his hands between my thighs. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>To realize that church was not the place for me.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Nor would I like to follow an outdated misogynistic, and homophobic institution,<\/span>
\n<\/span>With a white savior complex.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>I don\u2019t blame my mom for taking us to church,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Now I just understand why my dad would sneak us out of Sunday School to get breakfast instead.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"