A lot of yall didn't grow up in a Christian small town in the Bible belt that was culty. And it shows.
I'll probably get invalidated or told none of this is in Christianity.
But these people used being a Christian or Christianity to justify saying and doing these things!
These things were normalized for me!
I've had to unlearn some of these, but most I knew, and I was always wandering why people where I grew up thought this way. I have since learned parts, starvation trauma, poverty trama/mind set, close mindedness, poor education on nutrition, and using religion to fill gaps of ignorance or misunderstanding. I'm sure there is more to it than this.
Things in " " are things people have actually said to me, and I think they believe. This is not a reflection on all Christians.
Please be kind, open-minded, and understanding if you respond to this.
If there are grammar errors ask before you point them out.
It's a place where people don't believe in boundaries or don't know they exist or think "boundaries are a sin."
Where "Little Debbies are from God and thus you have to eat them". But vegetables except green beans, iceberg lettuce, broccoli, potatoes, peas, corn and carrots are the only (good) vegetables and all others either don't exist or are evil or are just not food.
Where If you don't eat lots and lots of bread, you are being attacked by demons, or it's "gluten alergies or sensitives do not exist"
Where if you did physical exercise beyond manual labor, it's either "unnecessary" or "bad"
Where if you run or go for long walks, then people will tell you, "I just don't think walking and running for fun is good." Or "we never walk somewhere we drive!"
Where trying to live healthy is not socially acceptable at all. I had people come up to me years after I ate kale. "I have been praying that you don't eat kale again, it is a decoration and can not be eaten"
Where "food alergies except for dairy and sensitives do not exist" or "if you have them it's just demons."
Where "mental illness is just made up or demons."
Where "not wanting kids of your own for ANY reason is very bad and/or demonic" and/or "there is something disturbingly wrong with you if you don't want kids".
Where "it's entirely your fault if your poor and nothing else has influence over that."
Where "birth control is evil" too!
Where "you have to eat what you elders telling you to eat no matter what." ( Your preferences, allergies, or sensitives do not exist, and you are just making those up.)
Where if your clothes are not laying or fitting or the color of how someone wants them, then they can physically adjust your clothes without consent.(this was mostly old woman) So they can randomly come up to you and pull stuff down or up. (People would come up and pull my pants up for me. have a short torso and high waist, and it was more comfortable to wear pants at my hips. Most pants would go up to my boobs, which looked weird. People would cover you in a coat. (I'm naturally warm natured or hot blooded, but if someone else was cold, I had to be too) And this is when you dress very conservatively!!!!!!
"T-shirts and the dark colors are for boys and men only. You are not of God if you don't wear bright, pretty colors."
Where people come up to you in any social setting and literally put food they think you should eat on your plate or say, "Jesus told me that you need to eat this." Or "you need this to eat! You just do! You just really, really do!"
Where people call your parents at any age unless you are married, then it's your husband to say where you were and what you bought at the store. Or even worse, what you didn't buy. Or you wore something they don't think you should.( for me it was wearing anything black) Ect....
Where anything an elder doesn't understand (even with dementia) (which doesn't exist) is demonic.
Where gender norms are extrem.
Where "spicy food is not for eating."
Where everything was brought back to "Christian living" or "being of God"
