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Thank God a woman in a Primus t-shirt and yellow jacket in Syracuse, NY remembered that she’s someone.
If the good people here all embraced our someone-ness, we could end this MAGA nightmare once and for all.
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialJohn Pavlovitz
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
Author, pastor, activist, fighter for the common good.
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialThis week we really needed someone to enter the rally for a monstrous president and call him a rapist to his face, someone to invade the space of the mindless rabble still worshipping him, someone to stand as our defiant middle-finger-flying proxy...
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialIt turns out, Trump’s disgusting Access Hollywood admissions weren’t the end of his campaign, but they were the beginning of the end of the nation we might have been and the relationships we could have had. It will be a grief that I and millions of others like me will never be able to shake.
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialBut it was that moment a decade ago, watching that sickening video, feeling that certainty about his political fate, and soon feeling the gut punch of being wrong, when I lost faith in a good portion of this nation, and in those who made up my family, my church, my tribe, my community...
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialAs they have continued in undying support of this hateful, violent, empty husk of a man; as they have fallen deeper into cultic fixation, they have severed any tethers between us. I have mourned the loss of them or of the people I thought they were countless times since the Fall of 2016...
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialOver the last decade, I’ve watched people I was once close to move the goalposts of what their ethics and theology will allow.
I’ve seen them justify every indecent and illegal act, including the physical violation of women and children...
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialI’m not sure how you ended up believing this is what faith looks like, what good you believe you’re accomplishing, or exactly what your endgame is, but I hope you hear me because I am telling you, without malice or anger: you’re getting it horribly wrong.
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialYour incessant attacks on queer human beings are the putrid fruit of a toxic faith that needs an enemy to feel valid; a defective religion that cannot exist unless it has an imminent danger to wipe out—even if that danger is imaginary, even if the threat you rail against is completely fabricated...
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialDear Evangelicals,
Growing up in the Church, I’ve often heard you extol the virtues of “speaking the truth in love,” so I hope you’ll receive this in the spirit in which it’s offered…
johnpavlovitz.substack.comDear Evangelicals, From A Pastor: Your Refusal to Love Your Queer Neighbors is a SinDear Evangelicals,
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@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialNow that fascism is here, let’s make sure we drive it back to the hell it came from together.
We can. We must. We will.
Take heart, good people.
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialMay we be our best selves in this moment, so that History one day tells our story as one where disparate humanity twisted the plot that once seemed inevitable...
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialFortunately, decent, brave, and organized human beings like us aren’t gonna wait around for that. We have a month left to transform the what is into the what will be...
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialYes, the bad news is that fascism is here, but the good news is that so are we.
Dictators don’t oust themselves, horrible regimes don’t leave on their own, and oligarchs don’t tire of devouring up nations...
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialThis not only makes survivors more reticent to report their trauma, but it emboldens unwell men who are more apt to act out on the monstrous things in their minds, believing accountability will never come.
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialThe United States has a long-gestating r*pe culture that ensures that the Jane Does will always be hounded and that the Cornell 7s will always be sheltered...
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialThey understand that they will face a microscopic scrutiny of their dating histories, clothing choices, and public conduct that places the burden of the violence visited upon them squarely on their shoulders and never on those who authored it...
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialThis is why more survivors of sexual assault don’t come forward; because they know that in doing so, they will find themselves facing violence and indignities from strangers that compound their wounds and amplify the shame of their initial trauma...
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.socialLong after he is gone, that grief will remain.
No election result will change that.