Join us in Fisher Student Center room #1025 at 5:30 PM for a special meeting with guest speaker Brittanie Smith, a licensed therapist who specializes in religious trauma.
Goals for this meeting:
- Introduce guest speaker
- Short presentation by the speaker
- Discussion on religious trauma
- Open discussion
Minutes
- Background music before starting: Current 93 — Time Tryeth Truth, murder ballad Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds — The Curse of Millhaven
- Guest Speaker Brittanie Smith introduction, her past experiences with religion.
- Presentation on religious trauma, what it is, and that it is not yet in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
- Group introductions.
- Questions on what might be considered religious trauma.
- Is there a connection between anxiety and religious trauma?
- One person might have a great experience at a church, while another might suffer greatly.
- Christian apologist Frank Turek conveniently speaking after the Atheist & Secular Coalition meeting. What is apologetics?
- Debating with religious groups, plans of ASC members to attend Frank Turek’s presentation.
- Replay of Christian Banana Man.
- Showing on ascw.org that the minutes are now added to each meeting.
- Showing that religious trauma sites were added under resources section on ascw.org.
- The religious attempts at “gay conversion therapy,” the religious attitudes toward transgender people.
- What about Richard Dawkins’ position that biological sex is binary, while also accepting that gender could be anything.
- Joking about buying bananas and attending Turek’s event, and buying banana suits from the Halloween store to wear.
- Return to questions about religious trauma.
- Those that avoid therapy, and how men are far more likely to seek help.