#Purity culture enforced rigid gender roles: men were cast as aggressors; girls were told not to tempt them. Both ended up alienated from their bodies and desires.
#Stupid #Christian #Myth
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/17/evangelical-sex-marriage

Internet Purity Test!

**Are you pure?**

#internet #purity #poll

#purity : freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter

- French: pureté

- German: die Reinheit

- Portuguese: puridade

- Spanish: pureza

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#purity

The #God of #Ignorance: Why #Religion Doesn’t Want You to #GrowUp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVryuRd4fBE

Topics covered:

- Why “#purity” often means #obedience without comprehension
- How #faith like a child is weaponized to suppress #autonomy
- The emotional and #cognitive costs of shielding #children from knowledge
- Why #religious #parenting may protect innocence, but not #wisdom
- The #psychological dangers of #spiritualized #antiintellectualism

Does anyone remember #Purity #supermarket ? "The fresh food people" of the 1990s (A slogan now used by #Woolworths ).

The white wellness ecosystem, fostering family-friendly ‘white wellbeing’
The Normalisation of the Far-Right

"White nationalism, or any other supremacist or ethno-nationalist movement, usually harkens back to some romanticised idea of the past. The past when [white people] 'had power'. The past when the community 'was pure'. The past, when everything was good."

"Built into that is usually the idea of a romanticisation of more traditional ways of doing things, of escaping from modern society, which is usually described in these communities as degenerate … as unwholesome. So the purity, the return-to-nature found in the wellness movement has an inherent appeal to many groups [including] white nationalists."

"....The wellness industry and white nationalism have a common thread of 'purity' and cleanliness. 'We want to focus on having picnics and outdoor meetings and public events that you can bring your family to, where we see our healthy white children running around and being happy, and other people will look at us and see how great and friendly and family oriented and not scary [we are], and not wearing hoods and not sporting swastikas.'""

"Wellness does play into that, in part, because if you're walling yourself off from the rest of the world, you do need your organic coffee and your bar of soap and your hair tonic and whatnot. And these businesses help to create an economic base."

How white nationalists infiltrated the wellness industry >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-22/white-nationalists-using-wellness-industry-to-spread-racism/105314926

Soap to supremacy: The rise of white wellness >>
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2025/2/2/how-white-nationalists-infiltrated-the-wellness-movement
#wellness #pure #purity #white #nationalism #ethnonationalism #WhiteSupremacy #FarRight #FamilyFriendly #modernity #subculture #lifestyle #ReturnToNature #BacktotheLand #GranolaNazis

@broadwaybabyto The fascist impulse for #purity didn’t go away with World War 2.

There was some good work done by the UN in Germany, but that was pretty much the end of it.

What we’re seeing now across the western world is the return of that same impulse. Wearing a cross & carrying a yoga mat now — but the same.

Those gas chambers though? They were still unthinkable in 1932. It took 10 years, a dictator, and a world war to get there. And even then they were hidden away in Poland.

One thing people might ignore about the #broligarchy & #conservatism today is it’s shoehorning of the fascist impulse of #purity onto technology.

We see this impulse particularly applied to #ai, with calls for #deregulation approaching religious fervour.

We see it in transhumanism, tescrealism, network state, pretty much all of it.

Purity is another way of saying; only our tribe is good enough to reap benefits. But most importantly it is a domain of no #consequences. The holy item of #fascism

Letra da música “Purity” de A$AP Rocky
#AApRocky #Purity
https://daletra.com.br/a-ap-rocky/letra/purity.html

3 ways to check purity of mustard oil adulterated with palm oil

While it is said to be a powerhouse of health benefits, this common cooking oil is not deprived of adulteration and is said to cause severe health issues. Let us find out how. #ways #check #purity #mustard #oil #adulterated #palm #oil

https://10bmnews.com/2025/05/3-ways-to-check-purity-of-mustard-oil-adulterated-with-palm-oil/

Marie du jour, 6 May: St. Edith Stein

Divine virginity has a characteristic aversion to sin as the contrary of divine holiness. However, this aversion to sin gives rise to an indomitable love for sinners.

Christ has come to tear sinners away from sin and to restore the divine image in defiled souls. He comes as the child of sin—his genealogy and the entire history of the Old Covenant show this—and he seeks the company of sinners so as to take all the sins of the world upon himself and carry them away to the infamous wood of the cross, which thereby precisely becomes the sign of his victory.

This is precisely why virginal souls do not repulse sinners. The strength of their supernatural purity knows no fear of being sullied. The love of Christ impels them to descend into the darkest night.

And no earthly maternal joy resembles the bliss of a soul permitted to enkindle the light of grace in the night of sins. The way to this is the cross. Beneath the cross, the Virgin of virgins becomes the Mother of Grace.

Saint Edith Stein

Exaltation of the Cross, 14 September 1941

Stein, E. 2014, The Hidden Life: hagiographic essays, meditations, spiritual texts, translated from the German by Stein, W, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor (detail), Joos van Cleve and a collaborator, oil on wood, ca. 1520. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
How does Mary’s strength beneath the cross shape my view of purity, suffering, and love?
⬦ Join the conversation in the comments.

#CrossOfChrist #darkNight #ExaltationOfTheHolyCross #purity #sinners #StEdithStein #VirginMary #virginity #vows

Episode 212: Sex, Purity Culture and "How Far Is Too Far" | Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teens Into Adulthood https://buff.ly/wknUypg #parenting #family #teens #purity #dating

Starting the journey back to my self care routines. Dusted off the polished and painted my nails to match my brightening mood. Base coat = @nail.aid Sapphire Strength Mega Growth formula. First Coat = @zoyanailpolish either in #Purity or #SnowWhite (label is no longer attached). Second & third coats minus accent nail = @orly in #Glowstick. Accent nail = @zoyanailpolish in #Daisy. Top Coat = @sally_hansen #HardAsWraps.

Political correctness was originally used ironically and self-critically within #leftist and #progressive circles-especially among activists in the #NewLeft and #feminist movements-to mock or satirize rigid adherence to ideological #purity or #orthodoxy within their own ranks.

#News you can use.

#history #WordsMeanThings

Check out the lyrics for the song “Purity” by A$AP Rocky
#AApRocky #Purity
https://daletra.com/a-ap-rocky/lyrics/purity.html

Découvrez les paroles de la chanson “Purity” de A$AP Rocky
#AApRocky #Purity
https://daletra.art/a-ap-rocky/paroles/purity.html

Quote of the day, 7 April: St. John Paul II

“I am the light of the world” (Jn 8:12)

Sister Teresa of the Andes—Teresa of Jesus, a Discalced Carmelite—is a light of Christ for the entire Church in Chile. She is the first canonized saint of the Teresian Carmel in Latin America and is now enrolled among the saints of the universal Church.

As in the first reading from the Book of Samuel, Teresa does not stand out because of her appearance or stature. The sacred text reminds us: “The Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7). And so, in a short life of just over 19 years—and in only eleven months as a Carmelite—God allowed the light of his Son, Jesus Christ, to shine through her in an extraordinary way. She now serves as a beacon and guide for a world that has grown blind to divine radiance.

To a secularized society that lives turned away from God, this young Carmelite from Chile—whom I joyfully present as a model of the Gospel’s enduring youth—offers the clear testimony of a life that proclaims to today’s men and women: in loving, adoring, and serving God, we find human greatness and joy, true freedom, and the fullness of our calling. From the silence of the cloister, the life of Blessed Teresa quietly cries out: “God alone suffices!”

And she proclaims this especially to young people, who are hungry for truth and searching for a light that gives meaning to life. To a generation bombarded by constant messages and the pressures of an eroticized culture—to a society that confuses real love, which is self-giving, with the hedonistic use of others—this young virgin of the Andes proclaims the beauty and joy that flow from hearts that are pure.

Now, from eternity, Saint Teresa of the Andes continues her intercession as an advocate for countless brothers and sisters. She who found her heaven on earth in espousing Jesus now beholds him face to face, and from that place of intimacy, she prays for all who seek the light of Christ.

Saint John Paul II

Canonization Homily for Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes
Sunday, 21 March 1993

Translation from the Spanish text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Photographer Juan Jose Napuri captures this stunning image of Laguna Torres in Torres del Paine National Park, a famous landmark of Patagonia in southern Chile. Image credit: peruphotoart / Adobe Stock (Asset ID# 304107267)

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Letra da música “Purity” de A$AP Rocky
#AApRocky #Purity
https://daletra.com.br/a-ap-rocky/letra/purity.html

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