#christopaganism ♡ 𓈒 𓈒 𓈒

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by the way, everything is going to be ok

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Mother Mary would actually love this

Mother Mary corset I made ❤️‍🔥

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my favourite part of the bible is when jesus christ said "it's jesus christing time" and then jesus christed all over the place

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reading the bible for the first time ever is such a strange experience. a lot of polytheists / pagans in online communities (and otherwise) happen to be ex-christian, so coming from an ex-muslim background, i've only ever read the qur'an.

and honestly, given the amount of ex-christians on tumblr and as my friends, i've always felt guilty for feeling slightly comforted by the thought of reading the bible. now that i'm doing it, it feels strangely nice. i don't know how long that feeling will last though. my biggest fear of reading the bible is opening it and finding things that i won't like. which...i know is unavoidable.

but my job here is to interpret it in a way that makes sense to me. i'll figure things out and hold onto this momentary peace.

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angel anatomy.

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Hello! I'm someone that experiences psychosis and actively take medication for it. The specific type of delusions I experience are delusions of grandeur, and the whole "spiritual psychosis" thing really, really grinds my gears.

You can disagree with someone without demonising people like me and adding to the stigma surrounding psychosis. Because of how often that term gets thrown around, people like me are infinitely more afraid of speaking about our experiences because we're so used to questioning every bit of our realities to begin with. I'm lucky enough to have it easier, considering I'm on medication and can access help whenever I need it. Someone else may not be able to.

Learn how to disagree with people without discrediting their mental state and throwing the burden on the shoulders of the mentally ill while you're at it. Polytheist/pagan spaces always preach about being mental health/neurodivergent safe and then turn around and throw around these terms, and I'm so sick of it.

People really heard the term religious psychosis and ran with it. Not everyone who disagrees with you has psychosis. People have different practices and that's perfectly fine also you as a random person on tumblr or tiktok have no right or authority to say that someome else has psychosis. You can certainly recommend seeing a professional but to label someone with a severe mental illness is ridiculous

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"i'm researching archangel uriel," i say, ushering you out. moments later, all you hear from my room are squeals of "he's so cool" and the vague clicking of a keyboard.

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all of this could be solved if people just started clarifying whenever they're speaking about their own UPGs by the way. it is that simple

i feel like a lot of the takes on greek mythology i'm seeing are seriously lacking in contextual awareness?

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i also think om from om shanti om's speech applies here very well.

“…that life is like the movies. always a happy ending. and if the ending isn't happy, then…the film isn't over yet, friends. the film isn't over yet.”

by the way, everything is going to be ok