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A review by raych_arles
I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness by Daniel Allen Cox
4.0
Favorite quotes:
“This kind of fearmongering couldn't stop me from leaving the cult; rather, it made me eager to become the kind of sexual outlaw they shun. I joined a queer community that took care of one another during a plague and that religion had already left for dead. Revelling in the touch and warmth of queer and hated bodies would indeed mark the first time I felt that a new world was actually possible.”
“If the Witnesses were committed to caring about people in a way that mattered, they would mobilize help for their immediate communities instead of preaching to them about an imaginary Paradise where "death and sickness will be no more." They would stop shunning those who've left, those whose isolation is compounded by a pandemic that makes the task of finding new communities more difficult than it already is.”
“This kind of fearmongering couldn't stop me from leaving the cult; rather, it made me eager to become the kind of sexual outlaw they shun. I joined a queer community that took care of one another during a plague and that religion had already left for dead. Revelling in the touch and warmth of queer and hated bodies would indeed mark the first time I felt that a new world was actually possible.”
“If the Witnesses were committed to caring about people in a way that mattered, they would mobilize help for their immediate communities instead of preaching to them about an imaginary Paradise where "death and sickness will be no more." They would stop shunning those who've left, those whose isolation is compounded by a pandemic that makes the task of finding new communities more difficult than it already is.”