home organization & religion bs 

Listening to a professional home organizer's talk saying good organization is necessary to be a model of Christ and I gotta say, the Gospel of the Spotless Home is one I somehow missed in my churchgoing days.

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Okay so on listening in full her logic is:
- Christians have lots of home meetings and organizing will facilitate that
- Having a clean, organized home will make it easier to proselytize to houseguests
- If a Christian's home is disorganized people won't respect her, and it'll be harder to project a good image & bring people to church

The first point is fair, but the rest... it sounds absolutely exhausting tbh to be that conscious of others' judgment all the time and to live as a "good example."

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@ljwrites ah yeah i’m lucky to live somewhere where there isn’t too much overt evangelizing, but i have definitely heard “clean home clean mind” thrown around sometimes in a weirdly moralistic way

home organization & religion bs elaborated 

@Satsuma the moralization of housework is endemic in many cultures, in deeply gendered and ableist ways at that, and it's something I find challenging to navigate while I slowly declutter and organize my own home.

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home organization & religion bs elaborated 

@ljwrites yeah its v frustrating! both how high the standards can be and, as you say, how unevenly they’re applied. it’s like we all got trapped in the 50’s

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@Satsuma and it gets internalized, too, which is the hardest to deal with T_T

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