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[–]szalinskikidproblematic androphile 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The whole gender identity thing was always a substitute for the concept of a soul in my mind. The movement comes off as a pseudo-religion; LGBTQ+ is literally "The Community"; TikTok teachers preach their doctrine like missionaries, and every school day has become sunday school. TRAs have their prayers/mantras ("TWAW"), they label and excommunicate the heretics ("transphobes";"TERFs"). They are science deniers and push for alternative biology like creationists ("there are no male/female bodies, there are only bodies"). They have their holy scripture and their tenets (queer theory; gender-bread man). They have their prophets and saints (Marsha P. Johnson), and they have a devil to hate (JK Rowling, amongst others).

It's only fitting if they start an official religion. Scary shit.

[–]TiredTrendersSuper-gay 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly. Less and less people are into traditional religion/faith systems these days. Meanwhile, more and more people are becoming obsessed with gender theory rhetoric, constantly towing the party line on any of their own or "allies" who step out of line whatsoever. I'm sure it's just a coincidence though. /s

[–][deleted] 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Some other religions hold genital mutilation of children as key tenants too, doesn't mean they should be allowed to do it.

Fitting that they made gender ideology an official religion finally though. Seemed like that was a long time coming considering they always believed in gender souls.

[–]Beryl 13 insightful - 5 fun13 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

"Church of Prismatic Light" couldn't sound more like a new age cult even if it actively tried to.

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh I get ... it it's like a rainbow!

Or is it more like the Light-Bearer?

[–]Wanderingthehalls 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What's the odds it's a grift? Like sure she really does believe in the gender nonsense but ultimately her end goal here is $$$$$$$$. I mean she actually says that she got the idea from watching a John Oliver special about people setting up religious institutions in order to get rich. It wasn't about using religious status to access special civil rights, it was about using religious status to make money. And that's what inspired her.

She's someone who has already used a humanitarian crises in Texas to alter her lifestyle in a way that gets her tens of thousands of followers on social media. And now she's planning to leverage that following into a church and there is no doubt in my mind that she's doing that primarily for cash. Whether it's to get donations for her church or benefit from tax exemption or both (hint, it's both) her goal here is wealth.

[–]lunarstrain[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Abridged version

A day after Tiffany Holloway’s transgender son said he’d kill himself if he can’t get the testosterone drug that helps him, in the wake of states passing laws banning such treatments for minors, Holloway did something big.

A little over a week ago Holloway started a secular religion, which holds in its key doctrine protection for the right to gender-affirming medical care. In a matter of days the Church of Prismatic Light, a safe community for the LGBTQIA+ community that doesn’t worship a deity and holds as a central tenet loving one’s self, grew to more than 90,000 members, Holloway said in a video Thursday.

Holloway brought the idea of the church up to her more than 350,000 TikTok followers – she became a preper after surviving the Texas freeze in 2021 and amassed a large TikTok following – and said the response was overwhelming and supportive.

We have had a ton of kids reach out to us who told us that before they heard of this idea, that they too were suicidal, and that now that they see the support that this has gotten, and just the amount of community standing behind them, that they have hope for the first time,’ Holloway said. Holloway’s son is among them, and is no longer talking about suicide, she said.

What could the church do to help those impacted by anti-trans laws, like the “Don’t Say Gay” laws popping up in more and more states? Holloway said if Christians can have “See you at the Pole” gatherings for students at public schools, why couldn’t the Church of Prismatic Light hold after-school gatherings where kids can discuss those banned topics

“We could say anything we wanted to about gender identity and sexuality, because it’s a part of our religion, that we are able to express ourselves, and there wouldn’t be anything that those states could do about it because it would be under the basis of religious faith,” Holloway said.

What does the church believe in? Holloway described a church that has no central deity.

“We don’t believe in the concept of perfection. We believe that the best you can do is do a little better than you did the day before,” Holloway said. “There’s no steps that you need to take to love yourself. You can love yourself right now as you are. We’re all imperfect beings.”

Oklahoma in March became the fourth state to enact an anti-trans sports law, and Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed a bill banning non-binary gender maker on birth certificates, hte first law of it’s kind in the U.S.

Oklahoma Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, on Tuesday filed two bills that would prohibit educators from teaching about sexuality and gender identity, modeled after Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, which Alabama lawmakers copied, and a bill to ban anyone under 18 from undergoing gender reassignment treatment or surgery.

"One of the things I have to do today is have a talk with my child when he gets off school about what is happening,” Holloway said. “Many parents across Oklahoma are going to have to have the same conversation. These laws are going to get kids un-alived.”

TLDR: Oklahoma woman has created a fake church to get religious protection so she may gender groom children in schools without legal repercussions. Her inspiration was her own "trans" child suicide baiting for testosterone. And Oklahoma has some pretty stellar child safety bills processing.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

“There’s no steps that you need to take to love yourself. You can love yourself right now as you are."

Oh, so we can just stop all with the pronouns and "validation" and mad-scientist lab experiments I mean "transitioning" and "gender affirmation" in general? COOL. So what does your darling daughter need that testosterone for, then? You know-- the medically-unjustifiable doses that she's threatening to KILL HERSELF over? Why aren't you telling her, "honey, you can love yourself right now JUST. AS. YOU. ARE."?

Seriously... there isn't enough /s in the WORLD for me to give this the treatment it so richly deserves. I mean, do these people even LISTEN to themselves?

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A little over a week ago Holloway started a secular religion

This is an oxymoron. They must mean an atheistic religion.

Anyway, this whole thing sounds like either a gender cult or a grift; Probably a grift.

And once again, they are purposefully conflating gender identity and sexuality. And really only carrying water for the agenda relating to the former.

[–]JulienMayfair 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, they're finally being honest and admitting that it IS a religion. That's one way to uncover the truth.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I'm actually on board with codifying trans ideology as a religion. Exulansic devoted her YouTube channel to the study of the various sects of trans ideology. The OPs trans kid appears to be a devotee of the Church of Perpetual Hormone Replacement.

[–]julesburm1891 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, we already knew you were a religion. Thank you for finally saying it.

[–]MBMayfair 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Always with the threat of suicide. And what a coinkydink, "Do what I want or I'll kill myself!" is right from the Abusers Playbook 101. FUCK I am so tired of the manipulation.

[–]automoderatorHuman-Exclusionary Radical Overlord[M] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

RIP Snappy, I AM THE NEW GOD!

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