What if what you thought was “conviction” was actually trauma?

In this episode of 2weIrDOs, Denise continues the conversation from What Christianity Took From You and goes one layer deeper into what religion renamed.

Because religion did not just take things from us. It renamed them.

It renamed anxiety as conviction. It renamed boundaries as rebellion. It renamed intuition as witchcraft. It renamed the body as temptation. It renamed questions as confusion. It renamed grief as bitterness. It renamed healing as backsliding.

And then had the fried chicken audacity to call our freedom dangerous.

In this episode, Denise unpacks how religious language can keep people trapped in shame, fear, panic, and self-abandonment. She gives language to the wounds many of us have carried for y ...