Individuality scares the hell out of them

trouble themselves for it in the afterlife.

Coming from a backward religious family as I do, I think it's more that they genuinely believe everyone not like them is going to Hell to burn in a lake of fire forever and they also believe that if they've not "warned" everyone around them that they deem to be evil about this that they'll get in

It's a mental health issue, if we're going to be technical about it. There's a very very thin line between faith and delusion.

I had to do those "women" talks on how to properly dress and wear your hair. Your hair should always be long, and submit to your husband because the lord wants you to love him. The whole signing a contract for your "virginity," some sweaty, disgusting youth pastor wanted me to sign it in front him

father's congregation. He wasn't an extreme Biblical literalist in that way. He was a bigot in a lot of ways, but not to the level of their misogyny we see now exactly.

Fortunately, I grew up before the whole scary evangelical thing started, as far as I know, but my late father was a preacher. I didn't have to see/experience people being forced to sign actual contracts, but the whole submission thing was there. The haircutting thing, however, was not in my

Wasn’t that the Nazi goal?

Yes. There is no daylight between maga & Nazis

It's all about conformity. There's a reason RFK Jr wants a list of non-conformists.

Nailed it