When I was getting my associates degree I took a Mythology class that I loved. But one of the girls in class was absolutely off the rails conservative Christian which made things… interesting.

The professor started off the class by being like, “Mythology is stories associated with religion.”

This girl. Haaaated that. She was like, “No, Christianity is true. It’s not mythology.” Mythology was delivered in the same tone as someone trying to spit excrement from their mouth.

The professor raised her eyebrows and said laconically, “Yes, most people believe their religion is the real one, that’s part of it, and the stories surrounding religion are referred to as mythology.”

The girl stewed in a hateful sullen rage. I truly don’t understand why she didn’t drop the class but perhaps it was court mandated education. We all expected her to drop the class but she dug in like a tick and derailed discussions as often as she could.

On a different occasion the professor was drawing a comparison between social constructs like gender. The girl raised her hand. The class hushed to hear her announce, “It’s just a fact that women like domestic work and even though men are awful and stinky we just have to love them anyway. It’s biology, we’re just hardwired like that.”

I was sitting next to my friend a baby gay Jewish girl and our eyes met in mutual hilarity while the professor tried to pretend she hadn’t just been stricken with a stress induced migraine while she steered the class away from that landmine.

The next sticking point was a week later when the professor informed us that many mythologies have overlapping events like floods but these didn’t necessarily happen in such literal terms. It was a metaphorical way to process and understand the world.

This girls hand shot up. I watched the professor exercise extreme self control to keep her expression bland before calling on her.

“The world did flood. And Noah saved all the animals. Before the flood all the water was in a dome outside the earth and then the dome broke and the world flooded. All of it.”

The whole class stared at her as if struggling to comprehend the overlap of her acceptance that the world was round while also firmly believing that there had previously been a barrier that held up all of the earths water before god smashed it in a fit of pique.

She raged under the attention, glaring balefully at our astonished faces.

The professor stared at her blankly, unable to form words to such a bizarre belief. I wanted to ask clarifying questions- what they’d drunk before the dome broke, if there were rivers or lakes prior, or did the dome allow some rain in somehow, but then I really looked at her.

She had the eyes of a feral, cornered animal who regarded any deviation in worldview from her own to be a physical assault on her person. Like the professor, I said nothing, and after a wretchedly long pause class moved on.

evangelicals are literally taught to do this, btw. it’s not just a random personal quirk of certain fanatical people, it’s something fundamentalist christians are encouraged to do

they believe jesus/christianity in charge is the natural state of things & schools not explicitly & exclusively teaching christian teachings as history & science = “schools have banned god & christianity”, so they see it as not only a brave act of resistance against a world that is hostile to jesus, but actually part of their mandate to “spread jesus’s message” & reclaim schools (& the world) for jesus to derail any discussion of other points of view.

it’s the same mentality behind films like “god’s not dead”. another example that’s a little older (from the 90s) that i grew up with & lays it all out very explicitly is “america again” by carman (content warning for, like, all of the bigotry)

I remember when a friend explained to me how they were taught about the flood and I'm pretty sure my face went on a hell of a journey.

Their response, "yeah, it's all pretty much like that. "

Wait til they get to dinosaurs.

Oh yeah dinosaurs were a trip and a half.

Oh! Oh! I know the "dome of waters" bit for a round earth!

At least, I know what Ken Ham's explanation was in the 1990s. He said that Earth used to have a vapor canopy a la Venus, and that the extra air pressure (and oxygen?) prior to the Flood collapsing it helped contribute to the extreme antediluvian lifespans mentioned in Genesis.

I (bb tween in evangelical summer camp) bought into that, and a lot of Ken Ham's stuff that was better explained than what I learned in my middle school science class. My faith in Ken Ham cracked when my very patient biology teacher in high school explained that he, a Sunday-school teaching Christian, didn't see that as reasonable. My faith in Ken Ham switched to pure rage when I learned in astronomy that Venus's vapor canopy is (was? I don't keep up with developments like I'd like to) considered to be a major part of the runaway greenhouse effect that makes Venus's climate literally hellish. I hate deception with the fury of a Venusian sulfur storm. I hate deception that calls truth a lie even more.

And I rather hate the prosaic, literal-minded view that thinks "mythology" is the opposite of "truth" rather than the poetic expression of truth. Because it leaves you even more prone to accept a false mythology of the cosmos than if you recognize the poetic abstractions.

Yeah I was going to say, that girl was in the mythology class SPECIFICALLY to do exactly what she did. Not to learn, but to Convert The Heathens. That's what the Evangelical brand of Christianity teaches people to do: insert yourself in places you don't belong and have no intention of actually learning about, and Convert. If you are the one converted, you will have all the hate, guilt, and shame of your entire community and God on you, so there's a lot of pressure to put your fingers in your ears and shout LALALALALA at the same time as trying to Convert others.

It is as absolutely batshit insane to be taught, and have to experience, as you would imagine.

However, coming from that background (but never buying into it yourself) makes it so very fun when you, the Evangelical-by-association, is solo manning the small geology museum on your college campus and a Guy comes in, who you immediately peg as Evangelical, who comes over to you and tries to start a Conversion, specifically about the age of the earth, and you know every single talking point he brings up because you've been fucking dealing with it your whole life as a scientific person who was raised in that exact background :}. (He gave up and left. He was absolutely not expecting a young, lone girl to know wtf she was talking about and to also have zero tolerance for his bullshit.)

To any Evangelicals who might be reading this: Just stop. You aren't doing yourself or Christianity any favors by doing this. The pushback you get isn't because the world is against God, it's because it's fucking obnoxious to do this shit. I say this as someone, as I said above, who was raised in an Evangelical setting: I know what you've been taught and it's wrong, just stop and actually engage with the world. It doesn't mean you're weak or letting God down. The world is a bigger, more beautiful place than you've been lead to believe. You won't agree with all of it and that's okay, but you need to actually experience it to decide that for yourself.

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honestly the best part of shadowrun is when a coalition of native american tribes violently retakes 90% of america. we need that.

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The question hidden within enemies-to-lovers is “who will love me at my worst?”, the question hidden within friends-to-lovers is “who will love me at my most mundane?”, hope this helps

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Drawing porn fanart of a character with small boobs and giving them big boobs feels cowardly to me. Like it's one thing if it's like a breast growth/inflation fetish but if you're just giving them giant honkers because that's how you make things sexy that comes across as lazy to me. Like what you can't figure out how to make a character sexy if she's below a DD? Skill issue.

As many people in the notes have pointed out, the porn artists did this to Cynthia Pokemon so much that everyone legitimately seems to have forgotten what her actual character design looks like. It's truly a plague