A weird pattern about modern Christian pedophiles is they all really hate trans people. Is it because we tell the truth about the abusive power dynamics inherent in compulsory heterosexuality?

I could probably post full-time about Christian men who get busted for sexually abusing children and who therefore make my purity culture is pedophile culture theory correct . . . but I don't want to do that. I just want people to see these patterns and stop these predators in their own communities.

Evangelical Christians will go to their graves defending everything Trump has done and is doing. Including threatening nuclear warfare (bc they actually want the apocalypse, remember?). If this doesn’t make folks realize how dangerous they are to the whole world what will?

Tried to overthrow the government and the government's response was "we need to be very careful about how we respond to this because we don't want to upset the people who supported him trying to overthrow the government"

I often think about the growing wave of family estrangement in religious authoritarian families as an offshoot of the BDS movement. We are divesting from toxic family systems so we have the energy to invest in those that are creating a better world for everyone.

We have a new patreon-only ep out for those like us who have spent the better part of the past ten years trying to get their people. Did it work? Did we convince white evangelicals to take the words of Jesus seriously? Did we stop Christian fascism? . . . and what have we learned along the way?

Heyyyyy so I am very worried about the top army generals being fired and Trump's tweets today and Hegseth calling it a holy war in Iran and these fuckwads having access to nukes.

I am so incredibly irritated this morning. I know atheists are not supposed to be angry or whatever because it damages the brand . . . . but my decades of easter Sunday trauma as a pastor's kid PLUS Trump PLUS perimenopause means the gloves are off today.

If you are attending Easter dinner with your conservative family members could you at least show them this post and have them react in front of you? I think we are past the point of placating these folks and pretending like their religion is good, right?

One thing the architects of Project 2025 didn't realize was the levels of rage and whimsy that us ex-Christians possess. We are going no-contact with our parents. We are shitposting easter on Instagram. We make fun of those who should be made fun of, and all they can do in response is fume.

This is so perfect. JD Vance's books are basically this:

re: JD Vance being a parasitic writer . . . do people know how much of Christian publishing is made up of people who just plagiarize other writers?

Someone sent me this.

It is so, so good we are having these conversations in public right now. Everything is terrible, but if more people can start to make these connections I think we can tear this entire rotten system down: buckscountybeacon.com/2026/04/patr...

I have officially written the first two acts in my 3 act screenplay!!!! Please clap for me (and I hope everyone else is finding a good project to channel all their rage and whimsy into these days)

My partner, who is not the Breaking News person in our relationship, is supposed to tell me if anything big happens while I am on a self-imposed news cycle break. He woke me up this morning so excited to tell me about Kristie Noem's husband and the big fake titties 😂

If someone wants to pay me a livable wage I would absolutely write a piece on how Tim Tebow and Mitch McConnell are two sides of the same coin -- conservative Christian men claiming to care about children and going after pedophiles while in reality doing nothing to stop the epidemic of CSA in the US

Hey remember how me and Mitch McConnell (circa 1985) agreed on something? That we need to focus on identifying and prosecuting serial child predators because they are so much more likely to repeat and get away with their crimes due to their status in the community?

Since the 1980s the United States government has been aware that if a man is a pillar of the community and professes to be a Christian, he will be given a much more lenient sentencing if he is found to have sexually assaulted children. Morris is proving that point: apnews.com/article/texa...

happy trans day of visibility the supreme court says conversion therapy for minors is OK again so I guess it's time to become even more visible and more angry :) (just kidding I am in my hermit phase but I definitely plan on getting more and more angry)

How did a bunch of people who were attracted to a peace-loving hippie become parents who beat and shamed and controlled their children into strict heteronormative patriarchal gender roles/conservative politics? Well, you probably already know my answer: James Dobson (but also a lot of other ppl!)

We are officially in the Age of the Grifter and I just want to say there has been few grifts as successful as this one. And if you don't believe me just think about how many other scams the followers of Jesus in your life have been taken in by!

What finally helped me break from the grip of Conservative media was that it was constantly overselling and underdelivering. I clicked on so many articles promising to expose the “evils of secularism,” only to find fairly mundane stories being blown out of proportion. I soon realized it was all BS.

Once you realize evangelicals will do everything in their power not to grapple with how they have been grifted (by religion, by republicans, by right-wing media, by AI, by the huge companies) you can start to move forward with your life and start investing in communities that are not like this.

For those who grew up with the kinds of parenting methods that all the Christian fascists love to boast about -- spanking, intense indoctrination, rigid rules about gender and sexuality -- it's never too late to process and heal from the harms you experienced. In fact, it's vital for moving forward.

It turns out that there isn’t a ratings bump for MAGA capitulation. www.mediamatters.org/bari-weiss/l...

Best defense against Christo-fascists is being a healed human.

For those who grew up with the kinds of parenting methods that all the Christian fascists love to boast about -- spanking, intense indoctrination, rigid rules about gender and sexuality -- it's never too late to process and heal from the harms you experienced. In fact, it's vital for moving forward.

No podcast on this guy specifically but the awful truth is that so many men listening to him are nodding along and laughing in the audience and around the USA. The creeps are always trying to find each other and justify their actions to each other (a hallmark of pedophiles, actually).

AI is just one more example of why young people feel like they can't trust the older generations (and they are right!). AI is being shoved down their throats at schools especially and it makes kids feel like they are truly on their own for the future and safeguarding the world.

Being a millenial parent in the US for the past 15 years has consisted of being lectured on screen time for my neurodivergent children constantly while the media is silent about how my boomer parents and all their friends shovel in right wing propaganda on their phones and ipads constantly.

A phenomenally important series and well worth taking the time to read the whole 1-5. Purity culture is Pedophile Culture is true on so many levels. I learned a lot about the way these men write/direct/produce content for each other, to reassure each other, that their preferences are normative.

Hey remember when the evangelical megachurch pastor Bill Hybels openly wrote about watching a ton of CSAM because James Dobson told him to? Well, I do. And unfortunately, it very much relates to the Duggars, Epstein, and more: www.strongwilledproject.com/how-predator...

I keep thinking about how surprised I am that antifascist Catholics are not organizing or messaging more effectively these days. . . we have our modern-day Father Coughlins, but where are the modern-day Dorothy Days?

Unfortunately Christian zionism continues to impact the world in incredibly destructive ways. I first released these episodes in early 2024 . . . then updated it last June . . . and now here we are with the US military openly declaring it a religious holy war.

Here's our last post on Substack -- why we are leaving, a round-up of the work we have put out over the past two years, and why despite everything we are hopeful about the future (plus a big ol' discount for ghost!): strongwilled.substack.com/p/strongwill...

You would think I would be incredibly depressed since my special interest has been James Dobson for the past few years. But you know what? I have met the coolest exvangelicals -- and their courage and bravery as they discover and share their true selves after decades of indoctrination gives me hope.

Here's our last post on Substack -- why we are leaving, a round-up of the work we have put out over the past two years, and why despite everything we are hopeful about the future (plus a big ol' discount for ghost!): strongwilled.substack.com/p/strongwill...

When I started publishing my series on how Purity Culture is Pedophile Culture (after 2 years of research) back in September I got the feedback it was too extreme and I was way out on a limb. But now it feels like we are finally ready to talk about this? www.strongwilledproject.com/purity-cultu...

Hey I'm in that 9% who is now uninsured bc the premiums doubled, sure hope I don't get cancer this year (or any other year until we have a freaking revolution)

My thesis is that serial child predators are drawn to communities that embrace patriarchal Christianity, rigid gender roles, and an obsession with policing/discussing the sexuality of children and teens under the guise of "purity culture". The Duggars are unfortunately proving this theory correct.

D.L. and Krispin's writing on this very disturbing topic is a must-read for anyone trying to trace the roots of the Epstein scandal. I highly recommend their work.

hello Bluesky! For the past few years my partner and I have published a free book-length project aimed at helping people understand (and heal from) the modern American religious authoritarian parenting movement. We called it STRONGWILLED, which is a nod to a book by James Dobson published in 1977.

THIS IS WHAT RELIGIOUS AUTHORITARIAN PARENTING DOES. See the work of @swordsjew.bsky.social @dlmayfield.bsky.social @rlstollar.bsky.social When children have no rights, control and power are only for men, and abuse is not just tolerated but celebrated, shit like this happens.

You know what's funny? A few years ago I started writing exclusively for myself/my readers on substack because I disagreed with the ethics/values of the major publishing houses and most mainstream media 😩. Now I can't post a note on substack without a polymarket AI feature?!?!?

Yesterday I talked to the executive director of my teenager’s (online) school and told them that since the teachers seemed to be pushing AI so much in classes that my teen was considering starting an anti-AI club.

"Joseph Garret Duggar is facing charges for allegedly molesting a child during a 2020 Florida trip."

If you want to learn how serial child predators view children (and how these same mindsets are rife in American evangelical culture) go here: strongwilled.ghost.io/inside-the-m...

When will people see that this is a feature, not a bug, of patriarchal religion? When will we stop being surprised and start truly holding all of them accountable?

You can check out all of our original chapters here (especially if you are curious about what religious authoritarian parenting methods are and how folks like James Dobson used them for political aims): strongwilled.ghost.io/about/