The best thing that atheism did for me was completely destroy the frameworks of shame that religion superimposed on my young developing brain.
The way religion held me back, I can never forgive. It was like a parasite to me. Just made me so uncomfortable and never felt right.
I have to hand it to yt people. Breaking up ancient queer cultural norms across Africa and getting them to believe it never existed there in the first place so they can keep persecuting and killing each other is a level of gaslighting that you can do nothing but applaud
list of ppl who get paid to be fucking useless:
-cops
-apartment property managers
-college financial aid office employees
-fedex customer service
-insurance billing specialists
-around 35% of psychiatrists
There’s a certain kind of Black person that weaponsises “we are not a monolith” almost as if they are using class assimilation and social mobility as a means to evade association from Blackness, projecting shame for certain perceived aspects of their own race