From "Passion and Purity" by Elisabeth Elliot. I read this while a fresh and clean baby Christian -age approximately 17. 90s Purity culture was for all the serious Christian teens out there. And it seriously messed me up. I thought these were words of wisdom. I thought that by agonizing over normal teenaged hormones, I was somehow better than my counterparts: wiser, godlier. I thought it would make God love me more if I hated myself for every errant thought that crossed my mind. And as Ms. Elliot said - that somehow all this self-hate and internal agony was going to make my life better.
Instead, it left me with a healthy dose of religious trauma and CPTSD.
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