It's In the Code Ep. 48: Testimony
Straight White American Jesus
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The Stylized Nature of Testimony
The stylized nature of testimonies can lead to people denying what they feel, repressing real struggles that they have. This opens up all kinds of problems. It can make it so that difficult questions are not posed to church authorities and church structures. So the language and appeal to testimony too easily becomes a mechanism of religious control. And again, we'll get into this idea of public confession as it relates to testimony in the next episode.
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