Where do you imagine your place would be in a fundie world?

[Guest Anonymous]

I can imagine myself being held prisoner in my father's house. My father is quite fundie, and he did threaten to keep me locked up in his house once. The charges were: having a boyfriend, having premarital sex, espousing a pro-choice viewpoint, and belief in evolution and the big bang. I was 23 years old at the time, and I did not live in my father's house, I was just visiting.

[Convicted Blossom]

I'd be shipped off to the Colonies with the rest of the UnWomen.

Being shipped off to the Colonies isn't so bad. ;)

Me, I'd be part of the Fundie Resistance Team, meek and agreeable on the outside and bloody well getting out of there (and organising others) as soon as they were out of sight. Two faced? You betcha!

[Gil]

Being shipped off to the Colonies isn't so bad. ;)

Me, I'd be part of the Fundie Resistance Team, meek and agreeable on the outside and bloody well getting out of there (and organising others) as soon as they were out of sight. Two faced? You betcha!

Are there only women (er, UnWomen?) in the Colonies? Because I could get on board with that, too.

[Guest Anonymous]

Where are 'the Colonies'?

ETA: I mean in this context.

[OkToBeTakei]

Oh God, can you imagine the Nucleaur Appocolypse that they'd want to start to get to Heaven sooner? :shock: * shudders * I don't want to think about it. I can imagine the fundie theocracy bombing all Muslim countries using 9/11 as a justification; banning abortion and contraceptives, banning women from work; and the economy dropping. I could also see our country going down in education because of fundies' history revisionism and creationism. Modesty laws would be put in place, the internet would be censored and only the political elite's would be uncensored, spectral evidence would be allowed in court again, and forcing people to convert to their version of Christianity. Britain would break off our relationship, we would be out of the U.N, men and women going to schools designed for their "appropriate gender" roles, entertainment and media would only be Christian-based, parrotting what the government would think teach its citizens "good, Godly, honest, morals".

It'd be a scary world. Some American companies would move their headquarters overseas, plummitting the economy further in a downwards spiral hell hole. Laws are Old Testament.

You know no matter how 'out there' that looks. What is scary is it is not unbelievable.

[sparkles]

Where are 'the Colonies'?

ETA: I mean in this context.

Handmaid's Tale reference. Because the more entrenched the fundies become, the closer we get to Gilead.

[Guest Anonymous]

Handmaid's Tale reference. Because the more entrenched the fundies become, the closer we get to Gilead.

I never get references! Argh!

[Childless]

If the U.S. became a Christian theocracy, I'd be Canadian.

[ILoveJellybeans]

I think I would keep the kids I would have as secluded as the Maxwells and seem to be the ultimate godly family for sheltering their kids.....but use that to stop people from finding out that inside the house we secretly have a TV and DVDs and CDs of all of the banned things that would no longer be available, and my homeschooling would include evolution, from textbooks stockpiled before the fundies took over. Also so the kids wouldnt tell anyone that creationism isnt real, or that the woman who lives with us isnt my "husband"'s widowed sister who has to come and live with us as she cant live without a headship, but my girlfriend (and that the man who visits isnt their uncle but my husband's secret boyfriend), or that we snark on fundies regularly.

The only people we would be seeing would be other members of the FreeJinger resistance movement, who we could pretend were part of the same home church, or a homeschooling group, but then get together, snark on fundies, work to sneak alcohol, cigarettes, science books, porn and birth control into the country, and teach our kids science.

[eohiken]

I'd live in hiding, in the woods, in a log hut. I'd come into town once a month at the dark of the moon. At the homes that display a pink carnation on the front stoop, I'd leave a packet of my special "herbal tea" a well know secret to help women relieve their "blocked menses". The food and goods casually left behind at the edge of the woods would supplement my own foraging.

Oh, and I'd have a pet talking crow, of course.

[loveandwar]

I probably would've married the first guy I dated...oh, excuse me, "courted." His family is ex-ATI, so he'd teach me how to speak fluent fundie so that we'd fly under the radar. We'd have 2 or 3 kids just to keep the spotlight off of us. But really we'd be working with the underground as much as we could and teaching the kids that it's ok to be a Christian and use your brain at the same time. We'd have a basement with a TV, DVD's, lots of books, and complete internet access.

Also, I'd be the one wearing blue jeans and high heels under my frumper. :D

[ADoyle90815]

I'm divorced, so I'd probably have to "repent" for my sins, but if I were able to stay with my fiancee, we would simply get married and appear to be good Christians, but in the privacy of our home, he would treat me as an equal. He was raised in a conservative church that I consider close to being fundie-lite, but once he left his parents' house, he started going to the Episcopal church. He would be able to teach me how to pass as fundie, so we would blend in while I spied for the resistance.

If the fundie takeover happened when I was still with my abusive ex-husband, I probably would have ended up on death row for murdering my headship since I would have resorted to using his tree nut allergies against him, as I would have used coconut oil in cooking his last meal. That would have been the only way I could have gotten out of that marriage as fundies would have banned divorce, especially in cases of abuse.

Fortunately, I was able to divorce my ex, as for me, that was the best option when compared to a prison term for either murder or manslaughter, depending on how using allergies as a weapon is listed.

[Arete]

Just get arrested and come to prison. We have the beer sorted. Maybe even a can to send to Exp on death row :D

As long as I get assigned to the right BIL, I should be able to keep beer in inventory. Maybe I can grow tobacco and hell, I have enough grow lights to keep a small crop of recreational vegetation going that I would be able to barter to get women abortions. Maybe CrowLady can clear some land in the woods for the tobacco growing and drying. Trade liquor in Florida for sea sponges for birth control..... The Witches Health Collective :dance:

[Katydid]

I would be sent to JTTH after JTTH in an attempt to get me to convert and become submissive.

[NurseNell]

Like my great-great grandmother I would have my bedroom, bed, and rocking chair, left to me by my DH's will, living in my son's house.The house had been mine and my husband's but now it belongs to my son and his wife. My son, under the decree of the will, had to see to it that I was well cared for until the day I died.

[eohiken]

As long as I get assigned to the right BIL, I should be able to keep beer in inventory. Maybe I can grow tobacco and hell, I have enough grow lights to keep a small crop of recreational vegetation going that I would be able to barter to get women abortions. Maybe CrowLady can clear some land in the woods for the tobacco growing and drying. Trade liquor in Florida for sea sponges for birth control..... The Witches Health Collective :dance:

recreational vegetation grows quite well in my woods, but plant groups can be no larger than 5.

[countressrascal]

I would be the underground Women's Health Provider, giving out Birth Control information and pills performing tubals. I would not be invited, liberal Jew, two strikes against me. However, I would run the black market for all things fundies hate.

[LucySnowe]

If this is Gilead, don't all the Jews get shipped to Israel, except they actually just get drowned? (I need to reread THT, which I realised the day after the election, but haven't gotten round to it yet.) So I'd better get me a decent lifejacket.

There are some groups of fundies who try to get all the Jews back to Israel so Jesus will return, or something along those lines, so I wouldn't be surprised if that happened. Plus you could confiscate all the Jews' money and possessions before you forced them to make aliyah whether they wanted to or not! Win-win!

[Talitha Cumi]

The mental hospital

What mental hospital? You've just gotta pray more!

As for me... if psychiatric medications were allowed, I'd be one of those objects of derision/pity, as a woman who couldn't have children. I would not be bothered by this, because I never wanted them in the first place. I have long hair and I usually wear skirts because they're comfortable, so not much about my appearance would change.

If psych meds were forbidden, I'd be dead. 3 months, max. Funny how praying didn't cure my anxiety and depression for fifteen years, but meds managed to take care of it in a couple months.

[Talitha Cumi]

I never get references! Argh!

I think that in that book, the Unwomen were sent off to clean up toxic (nuclear?) waste or something. Cause they couldn't have babies, so were disposable.

[Renting with Raggles]

If no one knew I was an atheist and was after me for that, I would probably toe the line in public but secretly work an LGBT Underground Railroad. My sister would probably do the same because fundies have pretty cartoonish ideas of lesbianism and they would never pick her for one, with her long hair and hand-made dresses ( she'd have to lengthen the hems, though) and her SAHD-ness.

[alysee]

I'd be a cherished daughter since I'm doing things "right" if you ignore the living in sin for 3 years, and just go by the married the first guy I courted got married and got pregnant on our honeymoon. I won't be having a hoard of children or go to church...

[miffy]

I'd have to backtrack with my boyfriend & start a courtship with him. My sister would have to come along on our park bench dates to make sure we don't touch.

He's Catholic, i'm Anglican & I will happily go to Catholic mass. So that might cause problems. Although being an Australian of entirely English descent (via the USA & Ireland) I could probably get away with saying i'm an evangelical Anglican. Because the chance of converting to fundie Baptist or Hillsong Baptist is 0.

I'd build some catacombs under my house to hide:

-A lifetime supply of valium, lexapro & BC.

-A still

-A Microbrewery

-Some nuns & a priest

-The relics my Methodist minister great grandfather souvenired from a Catholic church in Belgium the Australians blew to pieces during WWI

[Sobeknofret]

I'd be the mealymouthed perfect fundie, secretly running booze, smokes, guns and copies of the Anarchists Cookbook to the Colonies.

[Minerva]

Crap, wait, I'm a scientist. I'd have been burned at the stake or something.