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   Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 06:51:50 JST Artemis

   You know what's weird?

   Being homeschooled in religious fundamentalism & being laughed at over the years for how irrelevant everything I have experienced supposedly is because it's outside the mainstream, only for those belief systems to become extremely important for everyone to understand because they are one of the major forces controlling the US government, thereby making the broader religious community I belonged to a huge problem for the whole world.

   Unexpected plot twist in my life.

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     Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 06:51:48 JST Artemis

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     Y'all, they were training kids on how to get access to politics as teenagers (you would not *believe* the number of pages in state legislatures who were homeschooled). The idea was always infiltration & takeover, & we talked about it *publicly* at big conferences & gatherings. It was in our curriculum as homeschoolers or Christian school students. Some Christian colleges were founded specifically with the purpose of training Christian young people to get access to political power.

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     Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 06:51:49 JST Artemis

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     Having grown up on the inside of evangelicalism & just getting out just as Trump came to power, it was kind of a shock to me how few people outside of evangelicalism had ever considered the evangelical Christian Nationalist project to be a serious threat worthy of paying attention to.

     In pop culture when I was a teenager, Christian fundamentalists were frequently nothing more than a fucking punchline, like people thought they were harmless.

     Steve's Place repeated this.