Awful Things We Believed at My Evangelical University

I graduated from an evangelical university. We believed total nonsense. Before my deconstruction of Christianity, I attended an evangelical university. Personally, I had a decent experience, probably due to my demographic and then-fundamentalism. In hindsight, though, I see that many of our common beliefs were not only ridiculous, but dangerous. We thought God could give us the ability to control (AKA completely repress) our sexual needs, that education could threaten our faith if we weren’t careful, and that Jesus can make gay people straight. These ideas permeate the cultures of other Christian universities too. Whether it’s Liberty U, Biola, Houston Baptist University, or any other of the sort, these ideas thrive. If only these colleges could see that evangelists like Christopher Yuan are not more reliable sources than actual scientific data. My response to Frank Turek on how to treat gay family members: https://youtu.be/BSFkcfJ6BAk -------------------------------------------FOLLOW------------------------------------------- Twitter: https://twitter.com/gm_skeptic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GMSkeptic/ Discord: https://discord.gg/b2tABbV -------------------------------------------SUPPORT------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/GMSkeptic Sources and other links: Most people who regularly attend a protestant church as a teen leave church in their college years: https://lifewayresearch.com/2019/01/15/most-teenagers-drop-out-of-church-as-young-adults/?fbclid=IwAR2c5dETDlwIZRTrjQTFi7Kg-uvkqRjv4ULaIk9PFV84wUeaAeV2GVhCZtw Family acceptance predicts better mental health for LGBT people https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl...​ Social stigma positively associated with psychological distress and peer support moderated this in trans people https://scholar.google.com/scholar?st...​ Those who have higher rates of internal homonegativity and/or encounter negative reactions report more mental health problems https://scholar.google.com/scholar?st...​ Family acceptance is positively associated with well-being and negatively associated with mental distress. LGB contact is also associated with well being https://faculty.weber.edu/eamsel/Clas...​ The APA acknowledges that being gay is unlikely a choice and that it does not change Conversion has not been shown effective and homosexuality has not been shown to be a disorder or harmful https://www.americanbar.org/content/d...​ Well sourced wiki article on conversion efforts being ineffective and harmful https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexua...​ APA FAQ page on sexual orientation https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/orien...ental health https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl...​ Social stigma positively associated with psychological distress and peer support moderated this in trans people https://scholar.google.com/scholar?st...​ Those who have higher rates of internal homonegativity and/or encounter negative reactions report more mental health problems https://scholar.google.com/scholar?st...​ Family acceptance is positively associated with well-being and negatively associated with mental distress. LGB contact is also associated with well being https://faculty.weber.edu/eamsel/Clas...​ The APA acknowledges that being gay is unlikely a choice and that it does not change Conversion has not been shown effective and homosexuality has not been shown to be a disorder or harmful https://www.americanbar.org/content/d...​ Well sourced wiki article on conversion efforts being ineffective and harmful https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexua...​ APA FAQ page on sexual orientation https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/orien... -------------------------------------------Resources for atheists in need------------------------------------------- Find a Secular Therapist: https://www.seculartherapy.org Recovering from Religion helps connect those who are leaving or have left their religion with support, resources and community: https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/#rfr-welcome Resources for Ex-Mu’s: https://exmuslims.org/join-us/ This video contains 100% therapeutic grade skepticism.* *This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA


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