Autism is my super blessing! I'm a high-school valedictorian, college graduate, world traveler, disability advocate. I'm a Unitarian Universalist. I'm a Progressive Liberal. I'm about equal rights, human rights, civil & political rights, & economic, social, &cultural rights. I do servant leadership, boundless optimism, & Oneness/Wholeness. I'm good naked & unashamed! I love positive personhood, love your neighbor as yourself, and do no harm! I'm also appropriately inappropriate! My self-ratings: NC-17, XXX, X, X18+ & TV-MA means empathy! I publish shows at 11am! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 86 days 14 hours 3 minutes
episode 45: Don't call women "girls"
"What can I get you girls?" It's one of the first things my friends and I always hear when we're ordering something in a restaurant or bar. Men of all demographics use the phrase, as do a lot of women. It's become so common that I don't even flinch at it anymore, even if it's something I don't particularly love hearing...
episode 46: Religious elitism
"I’ve outgrown the furrowed-browed warnings of a sky that is perpetually falling.
I’ve outgrown the snarling brimstone preaching that is brokering in damnation.
I’ve outgrown the vile war rhetoric that continually demands an encroaching enemy.
I’ve outgrown the expectation that my faith is the sole property of a political party...
episode 47: I am recovering from religious imperialism, religious colonialism, religious elitism, religious nationalism, authoritarian religion, religious regimes, dictatorship religion, and totalitarian religion
"Christian Colonialism:
The verb “to colonize” can be described as the process of appropriating a place or domain to establish political and economic control. Throughout history, nations have invaded not only their neighbors’ lands, but also territories clear across the globe for their own use...
episode 48: I am recovering from Dominionism theology, I fully explain all of the reasons for my leaving religion, church, and Christianity, and I fully detail my religious skepticism!
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_spirituality (that's me.)
"My Secular spirituality is made up my search for meaning outside of a religious institution; it considers my relationship with the self, others, nature, and whatever else I considers to be the ultimate. Often, the goal of my secular spirituality is living happily and/or helping others...
episode 49: I am recovering from religious imperialism and religious extremism
"Ireland:
Beginning in the late seventeenth century, the British government passed a series of anti-Catholic laws in Ireland known as the Penal Laws. The first of these was passed in 1695. This was followed in 1697 by the Bishops’ Banishment Act, and in 1704 by the Act to Prevent the Further Growth of Property. The Penal Laws were designed to force Catholics to the lowest socioeconomic status...
episode 50: My Agnostic Spirituality, My Spiritual Agnosticism
"I am not a religious person. But that does not mean I must start from scratch in the construction of my governing body of ethics and life's purpose.
As I scan the pantheon of philosophers, prophets, teachers, artists, moral exemplars, and sages from the ages, one figure stands out for me as particularly promising for our time...
episode 51: I embrace both The Unitarian Universalist God and The Unitarian Universalist Jesus, but I am doubtful of The Biblical God and The Biblical Jesus
"Many people have questioned whether any concept of God can be meaningful in a modern, scientific world. Others, however, find the idea of God to be profoundly meaningful. Among Unitarian Universalists (UUs) and other religious liberals, conceptions range across a wide spectrum. Some reject God altogether and hold a strictly atheistic view of the universe...
episode 52: I am proud of myself for de-constructing religion, and de-converting from religion, not Christlikeness.
"What is God?
Some people think that God is a feeling you carry deep in your heart,
Some people think God's all around us, the world of which we're a part.
Some people think that God is the flowers, the earth, the air, and the trees,
Some people think that God's what's unknown and to wonder is just a big tease.
Some people think that God is the stars twinkling so bright in the night...
episode 53: I am recovering from religious tribalism, religious legalism, and dogmatic theologies
"Men and women submit to each other, not Women only submit to men.
Another one that deserves an entire article. Relationships are partnerships. Both have to give and take. It should be an agreed mutual benefit. No one should have a mandatory assigned role.
It is okay to learn about other religions.
I have studied different religions. I wanted to understand what other cultures do...
episode 54: What Is the Whorearchy and Why It’s Wrong (Sex workers are stronger when we’re united.)
"The whorearchy is the hierarchal system by which sex workers too often order themselves from “elite” to “inferior.” The woman who walks the streets is always at the bottom of this hierarchy. Who’s on top, though, is contested.
White, “high-class” escorts like myself often see ourselves at the apex of this hierarchy. But wait, it’s the sugar babies, who have relationships with their sugar daddies and don’t charge an hourly rate — they’re at the top of the heap...