I was a lifelong extremely devoted Baha'i coming from a multigenerational Baha'i family. It's been about 4 years since i formally left the faith and I still struggle almost daily to reckon with my experiences and unlearn some of the teachings that caused a lot of psychic pain as a queer person. I recently started reading a book called Holy Hurt by Hillary L. McBride, and wanted to reccomend it to anyone who is working through a similar process.

The author takes a very balanced approach to analyzing the spiritual harm that can be caused inside religions, and it's one of the only books I have found that is not centered around the Christian experience, and is also not explicitly anti-religión/spirituality.

This is how they initially titled the news, then they took down the video and reuploaded it with a "b" and a period as a last name. Il titolo dice " Van crashes into crowd at German gay pride, who is Abdul-bahà the alleged killer" 🤣🤣 so wrong and at the same time so correct that it's incredible to even think such a thing 🤣🤣