"How can people not just leave people alone? Do your thing. Support others in doing their thing. Don't storm the capitol. Don't piss on people's social media posts about Ash Wednesday. Like, just go live your life and let other people live their life.... Just go do your thing."

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How they were behaving and what they had to say — their viciousness and absolute certainty that they and they alone own the truth — reminded her, she says, every bit of the very fundamentalism she grew up with and has worked hard to leave behind. Mirror images, militant atheism and Christian fundamentalism.

She tells her attackers,

"You are what you hate, by the way, and you're as insufferable as the people I grew up with, so congratulations."

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In this video, she talks about what just happened to her when she posted on social media about attending her first Ash Wednesday service now that she has shifted to a mainline Protestant church.

When she made her posting about attending an Ash Wednesday service, militant atheists came out of the woodwork and began viciously attacking her.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher grew up the daughter of Southern Baptist missionaries in Africa. Her book The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism will come out this August.

Holly has long since broken with the stifling anti-intellectual repressive world of Christian fundamentalism with which she grew up.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k605yPoygNE&t=2s

It's kinda funny when you do a Valentine's Day storytelling event with myths about love and dragons, and there are couples sitting in the audience with ash on their forehead 😄😄

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