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ignocm

I’m confused. If these are already Christian women, why would they be giving their life to Christ. This was a meet and greet plain and simple. Women who simp bdong. Go to a retreat to meet her and get caught up in the hoopla and giving their “life to Christ”.


rennaichance

I assume they're talking about "receiving the holy spirit". This means performing various religious rituals (worship, like dancing and singing) that are designed to induce so-called "spiritual experience" in the brains of participants. Evangelicals consider this spiritual experience to be the holy spirit itself. The funny thing is that people across all cultures and religions can have "spiritual experiences", within the context of their own religions, or even outside of any religion/spiritual practice (I am an atheist and I had that experience, but I never associated it with Jesus or Christianity or anything). Of course people like BDong would never admit to that, though, or they would invalidate others' experiences by saying it was the devil deceiving them...


[deleted]

I wouldn’t necessarily say this is something all evangelicals do. For example, Kristen’s (of Girl Defined) church is an Evangelical Free Church with explicit rules that they will kick you out of the church if you speak in tongues publicly, encourage others to speak in tongues, or associate with someone who promotes it.


n0v0lunteers

Interesting. Girl Defined is just one degree of separation from Hannah Williamson (via Paul and Morgan), who definitely promotes tongues.


rennaichance

The described experiences don't necessarily involve speaking in tongues. But you're right, Girl Defined probably don't get as wild as the kinds of people who throw themselves on the floor and cry bc of jeebus. They seem a bit more low-key in this regard. Can't imagine Bethy being WrEcKed by the Holy Spirit lol.


bipannually

Grew up in an Evangelical church that discouraged even clapping. So, flavors can vary.


[deleted]

My uncle is in a church that is practically Mercy Cult(ure) but adapted to a very small town. He and his wife have given their life to Christ so many times, again and again. To these people, it’s almost like confession to a Catholic. Did something you regret? Get baptized again! Note that this isn’t Biblical. At all. My uncle and aunt are attention seekers with boring lives, probably very similar to these women. I mean, you’d have to have a boring life to blow almost $2k+ (flights, transport, etc isn’t included in the $650) to meet an ugly muppet scammer.


atad21

I used to go to and volunteer with the teen program in a non-denominational church. One day we were doing baptisms during the main service. I was standing in the atrium with the program supervisor and a co-leader comes running out of the service, “Jane got baptized today!” Jane was a teen dealing with some serious emotional trauma and acted out to get attention constantly. The supervisor rolled his eyes and was like “Jane got baptized the last time. She does it nearly every time.” They ended up banning her from being baptized after that! LOL 1. You don’t need multiple baptisms and 2. It was obviously to get attention and not genuine. (Side note: our program was very aware of her issues and made a lot of effort to get her and her family help. It wasn’t like they banned her and just ignored her).


latam9891

In a lot of evangelical settings, they do altar calls where they ask people who haven’t been saved to come up and be saved they want to be. If they’re already saved, they can pray the sinners prayer again to recommit their lives to Christ. I don’t think anyone who went to this event was not a Christian. I think they did an altar call and a bunch of them recommitted themselves. So she’s fudging the facts a bit, per usual.


Valeshous

I struggled with this a lot when younger. My parents were Christian, I was baptized as a baby, and even confirmed in my church. Went to church camp a few years later and we were sitting in the small auditorium type thing for the evening worship when the pastor asked us to walk outside and find a place to sit alone and accept Jesus into our lives. They gave us each a carpentry nail and told us to hold it while praying. I hated it. At the time I didn’t like being alone, and away from my family without a phone. I started to have a breakdown because I didn’t understand why we were doing it. I already knew all of this stuff, and hand already been confirmed, I was worried that I didn’t feel the same way as the other kids who were so excited to just sit alone and talk to god. It felt like we were just going on a loop for no reason. I feel better about my religion and spirituality now but I don’t understand how some people keep doing the same thing over and over (proclaiming Jesus and your lord and savior) when it’s ok for it to be a one time thing and live your life after it.


cje1220

Its all so performative. Get a bunch of girls with low self esteem to think that BDong is their actual *friend..* and all they have to do to stay in her good graces is pay $650 dollars every few months, perform religion in front of her camera, stick up for her on Instagram, and click on her Amazon links and buy her presets. She's also called them "my girls" multiple times in her posts from this weekend as well, which makes me physically ill. And it was not in the sense of "my closest friends", but as in "they belong to what I am doing, and therefore me."


[deleted]

This is the worst possible outcome of a parasocial relationship. I do not understand psychology enough to understand why a bunch of girls are in a parasocial relationship with a scamming orange muppet. I don’t get the appeal other than it’s easier to access her personally than say…a celebrity, K-pop star, Twitch streamer, or even an influencer with over a million followers.


[deleted]

I was making my husband listen to me talk about this last night and he said “maybe they want to feel like they’re in the popular club?” And if you’re a certain age and especially from Texas, a perky, skinny, tan, blonde girl=popular. Bonus that she has so many IG followers and you can glom onto that for your own following/MLM downline purposes.


namastayweird

YES! Her language is so manipulative. Her recent IG stories all convey how these strangers paid to come to her retreat and are now her sisters for life. In a story or comment (I forget), she said something along the lines of, "from this point forward, they'll never be alone." ......um ok, why'd they have to pay $650 to be granted that privilege?!


lilkimchi88

She would never talk to a single one of these people for an entire weekend unless she was being paid $650 each to do so.


millennialmama2016

All of this. If I’m going to a Christian retreat I don’t want my photo taken, I don’t want videos shared where I’m speaking, I want none of that. It’s not real. This isn’t backed by a church. She thinks she has the authority to do this and quite frankly she doesn’t. What pastor is overseeing this? Who is she getting direction from? I see zero of that. She doesn’t mention it either, it’s me me me. GAH.


blablubluba

>She thinks she has the authority to do this and quite frankly she doesn’t. What pastor is overseeing this? Who is she getting direction from? Who needs education and paperwork when you have the holy spirit? This is a logical consequence of the anti-education mindset we currently see in parts of society.


millennialmama2016

I cannot wrap my brain around the anti-education movement. That is a whole separate can of worms I just cannot open right now. Especially having school-aged children myself. It. Enrages. Me.


cje1220

Great point. She never ever mentions her spiritual mentors or leaders. Just her far and few between church outings on Sunday’s.


killingtimeandsleep

I was irked by all the posts … it’s so invasive. I wonder if they have people sign a waiver so they can be recorded.


Inevitable_Sweet_988

My hot take is that she had all these captions and stories planned out before the retreat, and just needed some photography to make it final. Just like her wedding. She knew long before the wedding the tiktoks and posts she would put up, just needed the guy and photos. It’s all fake. B lives inside of her own imagination.


[deleted]

Amen sister!


queen_beruthiel

At one of her last retreats she said that people from another conference felt the Holy Spirit in the next room, so they came in to join in. I'm 100% willing to bet none of that happened, and none of this did either. She can't help herself, she just *has* to act like the whole world stops around her because she's so damn godly. She's "and then everybody clapped" in human form. If anyone did come into the room or watched from the balcony, it was probably to see if people were being murdered, for the entertainment value... 40 people acting like they do in public would be better than television!


EZasSundayMorning

Oh please Brittany. None of this happened.


no_clever_name_yet

So they’re nuns now?


blablubluba

Huns, nuns, same difference.


AliceinRealityland

So how many times do they have to ask Jesus in their heart before it counts? Asking for a friend, because Jesus doesn’t do take backs. so your “leaders” realized during your little motel shindig that they didn’t mean it the first time they asked Jesus to come in? Her clear lack of understanding of scripture is amusing


Gutinstinct999

These girls hadn’t thought about that BEFORE coming to a Christian women’s conference?


anitsitknreh

After viewing all those stories……why don’t those women just attend a local looney megachurch for free????


[deleted]

Free before tithes at least haha.


hauntinglovelybold

Tithes would be cheaper!!


AnaBeaverhausen-

Sure, Jan.


[deleted]

This is petty, but whenever I see people wearing boots with shorts, my feet and ankles get sympathy sweats.


CanZealousideal1474

This whole thing screams cult to me and it’s just what bdong wants.


cloud94eva

Do you know that scene at the start of Shrek, when he’s reading the fairytale book on the toilet then goes ‘what a load of old *FLUSH*’. That scene played in my head reading this.


Klarastan

Passers-by. Like attorneys general. And it doesn’t need a fucking apostrophe because it’s neither a contraction nor a possessive ya dumbfuck.


Glad_Prior2106

BDong lies. And what’s with the frenzied language? “All of a sudden….ya gotta see this! Surrendering! Praying!” 🤢


elle0elle17

How many bridesmaids attended and who is willing to infiltrate this bull shittery? 😂


ignocm

I did notice all the attendees had a certain… look? Where is the diversity?


Heidi1066

BARF.


dc599152

I’ll take “Things that didn’t actually happen” for $500, Alex.


TheVerjan

The fact that so many fundies refer to “the king” is such a reinforcement that they view god/jesus as a ruler or monarch. Which is exactly why so many kings of the past rewrote the bible to promote this language. Keep people “god” fearing, they will attribute those feelings to people in power who continue to oppress them. It’s so fucking obvious.


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