Vst Like Purity

[Pompeo Mixon]

Ihave wanted to do a deep dive on the intersection of the enneagram and purity culture for a while, but I just needed to find the right enneagram expert to fill in the gaps. Thankfully, Kate Doyle of Against the Arrow reached out to me on Instagram with the same idea! Kate wrote this article about how toxic beliefs like purity culture affect each enneagram type.

Somehow, Enneagram podcasts rolled into religious podcasts and I was first exposed to the idea that church teachings do not always equal Christ-centered teachings. In fact, there are many things being taught and rules put into practice that promote the opposite of what Jesus demonstrated as the heart of God during his time on earth.

Harmful teachings like patriarchy and purity culture will be received differently by the varying personalities. The first dose of harm for all the types is that these toxic cultures want everyone to fit into the same mold. They would say that to desire to know and understand yourself is sinful, or at best, navel-gazing. To want to stand out in any way, especially as a woman, is prideful. To question or have a different opinion is rebellious.

God is highlighted in the Psalms as knowing His beloved intimately, even to the number of hairs on our heads. I believe that as we know ourselves better, we are more connected to our Creator. As we love ourselves, we are led to worship God in a more personal way and freed to love others better.

The Enneagram presents the idea that there are 9 basic personality types. Each has its own perspective on the world, its own particular vices to wrestle with, its own set of unique strengths to offer. We all develop our personalities naturally as we try to make sense of the world. The word personality comes from the Latin word persona, meaning mask.

And now that you know about the Enneagram, you may be curious to learn how your personality type is affected by purity culture. Download our free guide to go even deeper into each type, how toxic cultures affect both women and men of each type, and the growth path from toxic beliefs to freedom.

I grew up in the Purity Movement (late 1990s-early 2000s) in a small Chicagoland suburb in Illinois, during the height of popularity for abstinence-promoting organisations like Truelovewaits and Silver Ring Thing. In lectures, conferences and parental trainings, these organisations and their supporters emphasised different levels of sexual control, but often ones which put the brunt of sexual responsibility on women.

Bethany Beal and Kristen Clark, the sisters behind Girl Defined Ministries, have faced a good deal of backlash in the last five years. One example of this is Girl Deleted, a YouTube account dedicated to documenting videos that have been taken down by the duo. Numerous therapists and influencers such as Cody Ko, Daz and Trixie Mattel have openly criticised their work in reaction videos, explaining the toxicity of their lessons about perfection and purity.

These ideologies exist on a much more insular level within social media spaces, where algorithmic platforms can push people following any religious organisations or personal accounts to Girl Defined.

How much harder would it have been for me to break away if I had learned these lessons online? If my network of friends, personal expression and the content I was consuming online were all proclaiming these beliefs?

This revelation was partially due to conversations with other religious queer people. It was also from social media, where I encountered people calling out experiences and expectations from my childhood that I had learned were unquestionable.

Once I had learned about the term, I was hesitant to see my experiences as part of purity culture, because most purity culture resources and narratives I discovered online centralised the experiences of evangelical, white, heterosexual women. These narratives did not capture my own as a queer Catholic woman.

Emma Cieslik (she/her) is a museum professional and public historian based in Washington, D.C. specifically interested in the intersections of religion, sexuality and gender in American history. Her research focuses include queer religion, purity culture, and material religion.

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Since 2018, the Muncie LGBTQ+ History Project has been collecting the stories of queer people who grew up in and around Muncie, Indiana. I worked with the project for over a year as a research associate, conducting interviews with members of the LGBTQ+ community about their experiences growing up in Muncie, a small town in East-Central Indiana in the heart of the Rust Belt. One thing that I encountered during my research was the surprisingly widespread impact of purity culture, with its ideas of transphobia and homophobia, on queer young people. Alongside its well-studied impact on female-identified individuals, purity culture also affects LGBTQ+ people, who themselves hold gender and sexual identities that may be at odds with the cisgender, heterosexual ideals of their churches.

Unlike traditional archival research, which often means flipping through hundreds of pages of newspapers, letters, and more in archives, oral history research involves sitting down with individuals and asking them about their own lived experiences through recorded interviews. Oral histories specifically look for and collect the experiences of everyday people, especially people from communities whose voices and experiences would likely be lost to the record, including LGBTQ+ communities in small Midwestern towns. Asking people to share their own stories from their first-person perspective can often disrupt or complicate our understandings, or rather assumptions, about their experiences and lead to the discovery of unexpected connections and impacts.

Rachel Replogle, who now identifies as a nonbinary lesbian, is one individual I interviewed as part of the Muncie LGBTQ+ History Project. She spoke about her experiences with purity culture growing up in a conservative Christian environment in the 1990s. Replogle was raised in Muncie and fully immersed in her Christian community. Her parents were leaders within a conservative Christian ministry at Ball State University. Rachel took part in a conservative Christian youth group and worked at several conservative Christian churches in the Muncie area. She eventually left the church following a traumatic encounter with the therapy program SOZO as a young adult. The SOZO program is not specifically a conversion therapy program, but it can be used for conversion therapy, as it was for Replogle.

Different Christian communities enforce this guilt and shame surrounding the female body and sexuality that Replogle describes in different ways, through commercial products, such as signed purity pledges and rings inscribed with Bible verses, and with church- and school-wide events, These include Father-Daughter purity balls and youth ministry lock-ins, which grew in popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s as part of the Purity Movement. At the height of its popularity, purity culture involved government-funded abstinence-only sex education programs, which were initiated by the Clinton administration in 1996 and then solidified into the Community-Based Abstinence Education Program by the Bush administration in 2000.[4]

Emma Cieslik (she/her) is an emerging museum professional and public historian based in Washington, D.C. She studies the intersections of religion, gender and sexuality and how these histories are curated in museums. She has experience working in curatorial, collections management, and education capacities at numerous institutions, including at the National Museum of American History, the Field Museum, the National Anthropological Archives, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, and more. She has also conducted ethnographic research in religious and LGBTQIA+ communities across the United States focused on the intersection of religious and sexual identities.

We recently endured an unmatched gauntlet for head-exploding drama and heart-pounding anxiety on both sides of our family. An eerily similar craziness boiled over from two different, unrelated people in two different, unrelated occasions separated by several weeks.

So one who is two-hearted is in every sense a self-deceiver. The self-deceit causes insecurity and doubt, as he hedges his bets and gives himself first to one thing and then the other, but never fully to either.

Purity is not so much whiteness, then, as it is a matter of being true to God and his will. Sin is to be eliminated only so that potential and goodness may flourish, not for its own sake. And sin can only be permanently eliminated through a single-minded, whole-hearted drawing near to God, because it is his presence and will that purifies.

Pure olive oil includes no additive or adulterant. Pure water is water and nothing else. A pure heart is a heart which is fully alive and unobstructed, with all its energies directed to a single end. The only thing that has the capacity to hold such an intense concentration of energy is God; with anything less the energies are scattered and focus is lost.

Deceit, or impurity of heart, is what we do when we will two things, rather than one. We do one thing and want people to believe we do another. We feel one thing and want people to think we feel another. Psychologists tell us a divided heart is highly correlated with addiction, depression, violence, aggression, suicide, eating disorders, self-medication, and all manner of human dis-ease.

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