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Being a queer Christian or Muslim is such a trip. Straight cis Christians and Muslims hate us. Queer athiests hate us. We are the Bisexuals of religion.

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I fear I’m too much of a Queer Christian for me to believe in the lie that if someone doesn’t respect me then I shouldn’t fight for them.

Do you know how many Christians have spat on me?

Do you know how many Queer people have called me names?

Yet I will still argue that every person who spat on me and called me names still deserves food, water, a home, and safety. They deserve to live their lives with out fear. They deserve clothes on their back. They deserve a community. Simply cause they are human and Christ called me to love all his children. Even if Christ didn’t, if I chose not to help my enemies then the amount of people I would be willing to help would be very few.

I have seen this idea that if someone isn’t morally correct then they aren’t worthy of fighting for. They are. I’m not just fighting for my rights, but the rights of my neighbors. I fight because I want a better future for everyone, even if in this future I’m still spat at or yelled at.

I’ll continue to fight for them after that as well.

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If you're going to be a Christian you need to acknowledge its history of violence and colonization so you do not continue the violence!!!!

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Tumblr user, look at me. Your problems with organized religion are not solved by harassing random religious people on the internet.

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btw sorry for the lack of activity on this blog. i actually kinda forgot about this blog and i'm gonna be honest, i've kinda sorta distanced myself from the christian label mostly due to some personal shame. (still very much believe in god and i still consider myself a part of christianity, though. <3)

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some things that so many people get wrong about Christianity (even practicing Christians)

- EVERYONE sins. it does not make you a bad or evil person. shame makes sin worse. the idea that you are "too far gone" for Jesus to ever love you IS the devil talking. any Christian that tells you God doesn't love you is NOT following the word of God. they are actively working against Him, and this is deeply blasphemous. my fellow Christians, please take this into account if you have not already. who are you to deny your neighbor God's love?

- (about Catholics and i think Orthodoxy denominations? idk all the denominations that honor the saints tbh, i mainly know abt Catholicism) praying to the saints, and especially to Mary, is not worshipping false idols. it's the same as asking a friend to pray for you. you pray for Jesus to accept their intercession on your behalf. it is believed that God has worked through the saints to perform miracles before.

- we must TRY to forgive others as Jesus forgives all. forgiveness is not reconciling or bringing others back into your life. sometimes the best way to "love our enemies" is to firmly tell them you believe they're wrong for what they've done. to accept a person is not to accept their hurtful actions or to let them into your life.

- the people you look up to in the church will make mistakes, as too will we. we cannot put anyone on a pedestal or covet their virtue, because it will always lead us to sin. your priests and nuns are people just like you, they have faults just like yours.

- Christian denominations will have WILDLY different beliefs and ways of interpreting the Bible. one size does not fit all. a lot of people think Christians = Catholics and that the vatican speaks for all Christians. this is NOT true. the vatican only applies to the Roman Catholic Church. a lot of Catholics don't even fully believe everything the vatican says. i can't speak for all denominations but Catholics vary wildly depending on where they're from tbh. US east coast Catholics are a lot more progressive than you'd believe. "Bible belt" Catholics are practically Evangelical. usually when people talk about the kinds of Christians that fear monger, they mean Evangelicals, Baptists, or Mormons. but this is an oversimplification for non-Christians because this stuff can be very confusing from the outside. there's 45,000 different denominations apparently??? (but there's like 30? big ones, i think lol) we even disagree on some HUGE/foundational things.

- some Christians are Bible heavy, and others don't care much for it. some believe in the Bible's "infallibility/inerrancy," meaning that it is the literal word of God and is without flaw; but polls show that a lot of us don't. i want to say now that even if the Bible were once inerrant, it has been translated, edited, and taken very much out of context. to use a singular line—often one that contains gray areas—to say hateful things to someone, goes against the biggest message Jesus consistently tried to give us: love. thy. neighbor.

- there are a lot more Christians in the world that are progressive than there are that act like #That—but you don't know much about them, because it's understood by MOST of us that God wanted us to love and accept each other above all. and to judge others harshly is possibly one of the greatest sins. we tend to not push our religions in people's faces because we're not trying to be assholes who attack everyone, but also because we're sorry that a decent amount of us act like #That.

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queerness and being religious are not mutually exclusive

queer religious people should not feel like they have to give up their religion to be accepted in queer spaces, yet that is such a common sentiment

queer religious people are not just a cutesy fictional diversity moment or your gay fictional man struggling with catholicism they are real people and they deserve your respect

stop treating queerphobic religious belief as the only valid one, stop saying 'but christians/muslims cannot be queer'

queer religious people are not a paradox, not a contradiction

don't let the bigots win

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and before someone tries to go all "we're allowed to criticize religion and religious folks!" there is a difference between criticizing religious folks who use religion as an excuse to hurt others and calling everyone who believes in religion "delusional" or "mentally ill". there is a difference between criticizing christians and christianity in general for historical (and present!) atrocities and accusing queer christians of being "traitors" and "allying with their oppressors". there is a difference between criticizing islamic theocratic countries for their human rights abuse towards women and telling every random muslim woman you meet that they're "oppressed". there is a difference between not liking religion and wanting any (or all) religious practices to be downright banned or outlawed. if you cannot see the differences, maybe you should figure out why that is.

you're anti-theist? that's cool. but are you normal about muslims, jewish people, hindus, buddhists, indigenous folks who partake in cultural spiritual rituals, black folks who partake in voodoo, people who experience religious delusions/hallucinations, people with scrupulosity, people who have religious trauma or queer religious folks?

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you're anti-theist? that's cool. but are you normal about muslims, jewish people, hindus, buddhists, indigenous folks who partake in cultural spiritual rituals, black folks who partake in voodoo, people who experience religious delusions/hallucinations, people with scrupulosity, people who have religious trauma or queer religious folks?

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I'm going to be honest; My least favorite thing about the holiday season is the stupid discourse over which holiday invented Christmas first. I actually do not care whether the Pagans or Christians invented Christmas first. I just wanna unwrap presents, decorate trees and celebrate Jesus' birthday in PEACE. This yearly debate over who stole what holiday and who invented what is stupid and, quite frankly unproductive. Maybe find something else to argue about.

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you can't be anti-religion and then claim to love muslims and jews.

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Im sorry not sorry but genuinely

If you believe all of Christianity is a cult, you are not inclusive. Any religion can become a cult. People who hate Christianity/catholicism always use the same 3 excuses.

"its transphobic"( has nothing about being trans in it. that is the way SOME use it to excuse)

"its homophobic, man shall not lie with man as he does woman" WROOOOOONG its man shall not lie with BOY and again, same as before

or just using the bad parts of its actions.

You all constantly voice positivity for other queers apart Abrahamic religions, but when its Christians you exclude us to hell and back.

It's so frustrating. Im so fucking sick of it. so, my name is Alamo. Im a 16 year old trans boy, i am polyam and gay with 2 partners, i am mixed rroma and mexican with my patron saint being saint sara-la-kâli. I see ny religion being intertwined with ny queerness and my race.

l'm so tired of seeing things IN THE CHRISTIANITY TAG like " all Christians should die" and " Christianity is a cult" For gods sake you cannot claim to be inclusive of all good-faith queers if you excluded us.

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everyone always says "Praise God" or "Find God", but nobody ever asks "How's God"

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evangelicals will see fire, the color red and anything involving blood, and immediately jump to it being "satanic"

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christ on a cracker (the last supper, oil on saltine)

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getting the hang of this praying thing. grabbed an ibuprofen for menstural cramps, held it out, and said "Oh God, bless this ibuprofen and all the pain it shall erase".

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challenge: i want jews, muslims, christians, pagans, hindus and buddhists to say something nice about each other (faith, culture, etc). athiests and agnostics also welcome to participate if they so wish.