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Hey, it's super cool and empowering to learn life skills like these, and these links might well have good information (I haven't clicked them), but be ready to take their messages with a grain of salt as OP is a "traditionalist" with a major focus on maintaining strict gender roles, with nuggets like anti-choice posts thrown in every now and again.

A lot of "homesteading" bloggers are labeling things like Christian fundamentalism and white nationalism with innocuous tags like "cottagecore" and "farm life." I know a lot of folks (like myself) want to learn fun skills and feel self-reliant, and those are fulfilling pursuits, but be aware of how a person's politics shape their posts while you're researching and daydreaming. Like, you are not going to get a nuanced, anti-colonialist picture of what an environmentally friendly cooperative should look like from someone who also wants to slip in quotes and aesthetic posts about how motherhood and pregnancy are the height of femininity.

“Military family and marital therapy programs are being infused with Protestant Christianity, which would violate the U.S. Constitution; open anti-Semitism; anti-LGBT statements, posters, symbols and bullying; openly anti-Muslim teachers and Islamophobic attacks; a rise in on-base evangelizing; and increased pressure on recruits or lower-level personnel and service members to convert to fundamentalist Christianity.“

“With the advent of Trump as the commander in chief of our armed forces, MRFF has experienced a massive influx of new military and civilian personnel complaints of religion-based prejudice and bigotry, most of them coming from non-fundamentalist Christians being persecuted by their military superiors for not being “Christian enough.“

“.. noncommissioned officers at one Air Force base reported that their superiors told them Trump would make it USAF policy that in order for “disbelieving Jews” to be allowed into the USAF or deemed fit for promotions, they would have to show via objectively established behavior that they were at least honestly “considering the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”“

“the wife of a combat-decorated Muslim U.S. Naval officer, who was wearing a Muslim headscarf, was surrounded in the commissary and spit upon and cursed as not being a “true American and being a spy and a terrorist.” She was with her children at the time.“

Christian fundamentalism long been a problem in the U.S. military, beginning with military academies.

Christian fundamentalism has long been a problem in the U.S.

Christian fundamentalism has long been a problem

Christians have long been a problem. For 2 millennia at least.

Two things.

1: if you’re a bigot you can’t really be a Christian because of the whole love thy brother thing.

2: you guys are kind of being assholes.

(On a side note I do want to smack those guys who were being mean to that lady. With a shovel.)

My guy, Christianity saw a huge expansion thanks to bigotry, and two factors are in there:

Christians have long been a problem.

~Mod Akiva