nat on Nostr: When you're steeped in it, and it's all you know, everything else is UNTHINKABLE. You ...

When you're steeped in it, and it's all you know, everything else is UNTHINKABLE. You cannot imagine abandoning your faith for a life of sin. You look at people on the outside and they seem *so unbelievably selfish.*

You have been taught to sacrifice everything... and it still never feels like enough.

It's not vindictiveness. You are barely conscious of the racism and sexism, because the justifications you've been spoonfed are so internalized.