With heart and care
About the human costs of Christianity and the Church of Denmark.
Prevent religious trauma. Stop the psychological violence!
It’s been 4 years since I left Christianity (July 2017). On that occasion, I posted this thread on Twitter.
As long as we aren't willing to talk about how Lutheran theology, ideology, culture and our national church, also here in Denmark, both historical and today, has been and is an important origin for traumas - and often complex traumas - we have already lost the battle for minimizing the traumatizations in our society.
Everybody should be free to choose what religions they want to support and/or believe in, incl. the right to choose to live a life free from religion.
Belief in freedom of religion and religious equality for all is a very good reason to leave Protestant Christianity and the Danish national church. And it's a really good reason to support a complete separation between state and church.
My goal isn’t anti-theism, it’s pro autonomy and anti-harm, but if that ends up looking like anti-theism, so be it.
CORT, the Conference On Religious Trauma, was supposed to have taken place for the first time in Vancouver in April last year. However, it ended up being cancelled, due to Coronavirus. Now, CORT is back.
Maybe it would be a good idea for us to become better acquainted with what kind of ideology, theology and way of thinking we are spending billions of Danish kroner on every year? I mean … it’s a fucking lot of money to spend on something we don’t consider as being important, which can potentially be deeply harmful, and which may go against our own values on several key points.
With heart and care