I found myself wanting ... more substance ... on the Josh Harris piece, as someone who was harmed by the anti-dating movement and homeschooled, but I get it's not meant to be a substance critique but an emotional one. The fact he has a seminary degree but has never dragged his ass back to university for a BA but feels entitled to jump into "branding" using his own corpse as proof of his success sure is Something. I was peripherally aware of it but I find myself wanting to dig deeper into how, why, what it means, that Josh Harris' cis male whiteness lets him be an expert without any credentials when his expertise is in, um, using his privilege to sell content he now claims to disavow. There's a lot happening there.
I'm Full Of Feelings about The Problem Of Ex-Evangelical Public Figures and I keep cycling around that response and others about Harris' exit from Evangelical Christianity and his public announcement of his divorce, and how much people yearn for them to be accountable for their actions and theologies of harm and how the structure of supremacist Christianity doesn't allow for people to say "I made a mistake and I'm sorry" but only to say "I've grown and changed so you can't be angry anymore about how I used to be" and how that continues to play out even when people disavow Christianity entirely.
(If people are mad at me for who I was when I was in a Christian cult or any other cult I got sucked into, G-D knows they're entitled to be. The harm didn't go away just because I stopped believing those things and now work to dismantle their power in the wider world. But "you might be rightfully angry about things I no longer/perhaps never believe(d) but did in fact say for complex reasons I take ownership of" seems to be beyond people like Harris.)
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I'm Full Of Feelings about The Problem Of Ex-Evangelical Public Figures and I keep cycling around that response and others about Harris' exit from Evangelical Christianity and his public announcement of his divorce, and how much people yearn for them to be accountable for their actions and theologies of harm and how the structure of supremacist Christianity doesn't allow for people to say "I made a mistake and I'm sorry" but only to say "I've grown and changed so you can't be angry anymore about how I used to be" and how that continues to play out even when people disavow Christianity entirely.
(If people are mad at me for who I was when I was in a Christian cult or any other cult I got sucked into, G-D knows they're entitled to be. The harm didn't go away just because I stopped believing those things and now work to dismantle their power in the wider world. But "you might be rightfully angry about things I no longer/perhaps never believe(d) but did in fact say for complex reasons I take ownership of" seems to be beyond people like Harris.)