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* slaps the him * this bad boy can fit so many daddy issues and ethics violations in him.

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Trying to maintain your faith while dealing with depression is rough y'all. Like God is good, but also there's been this growing despair in my soul. Maybe this is why God gave us two hands...

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Do you have any resources for community building for LGBTQIA+ Christians?

I don't know if I'm necessarily the best person to ask because I have severe social anxiety and thus suck at community building but I can tell you what I've been trying to do:

find an affirming church. There's different denominations if you know what to look for, so you can find one that you find welcoming and loving. Go to events with that church, their bible studies and coffee nights and volunteer opportunities. This will give you an opportunity to make friends with people who are like-minded and build a village that will help take care of you. I recommend the old ladies especially because the kind old ladies tend to want to mother anyone that comes within grabbing distance.

look online for fellow queer Christians. Message them, start a group chat, send out posts into the ether and see who turns up. Start a blog. There's probably a reddit forum. It is a lot like a fandom so similar rules apply.

Look especially around Pride, because churches and groups who are affirming will tend to pop up during those times to participate. You can go and see what communities exist there.

check out queer interfaith groups. No one gets religious trauma like other religious queer kids.

If anyone has other ideas, feel free to sound off in the comments. And if anyone belittles you or makes you feel you have to pick between queerness and religion, eat them.

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'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

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Every time I have ever found God it has been from a group of outsiders.

Every picture of God that has ever looks like him has been made by people who never saw a Jesus that looked like themselves

I have never felt more at home than when listening to a gay person talk about God. I have never understood someone better than the lesbian Catholics who love to veil, or the transgender episcoples who see their transition as an opportunity to share in God's creation, or anyone who found God and then carved their own way to him.

When I sit in chapel, and the worship music feels like noise, I know there is a hymn being sung with a shaking voice that sounds just like Christ calling out for his father. When I see lessons written in script, I know there are sheets of construction paper printed in stock fonts on a family's kitchen table sent home from Sunday school teaching the same. When I get a hand out with Bible verses bought from Amazon, I know that someone has written the same verse in craft glue and collage and their blood.

I think God is present the most when the process of finding him is distinctly human; because I think he knows us, and makes the way he finds us human.

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It's so peaceful being a Christian who does not believe in the existence of the eternal hell.

Conventional Christians ask me why I believe that. They tell me that there isn't any point in being Christian if we won't be rewarded for my faith.

However, my faith is not validated by the eternal suffering of others and my God is not that small.

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Being a Queer Christian is beautiful actually because in a world telling you that you aren’t loved you get to look to God and say “Don’t worry; My faith is stronger than their fear”

And there is something poetic to that.

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happy pride month to religious queer people, who feel like they’re contradictions, or told that they’re contradictions, but stay true to these important parts of themselves anyway. happy pride to the queer religious people who have to explain their identities, and who have to defend their faith or their queerness in either circle.

i love you, i am one of you, thank you for being in this community with me.

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All he had to do was simply say:

"I'm sorry that my salute came across the way it did. I am not a nazi."

But he couldn't bring himself to do it, and do y'know why? Because he's a fucking nazi!

Like, yes, ofc America is a genocidal country, but at least before they had some fucking shame, now it's like they're fucking proud of it and want the whole world to know.

Absolutely ghoulish.

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sanity check???

As a queer Christian, I’ve been interested in blending religious and queer stuff together in sticker designs. BUT IM ALSO HAVE A LOT of guilt about my gender/internalized transphobia/etc, plus I struggle a lot with reconciling faith and queerness. So I have NO IDEA if this design is super f#cking stupid to someone else or if it’s ok ;-;

part of me is irrationally convinced no queer person would like this and this is blatant heresy to my belief system BUT IDK HVJDHVHJDJF I really like the design but I feel stupid using a scripture other people used to go against trans people but I meant this in a reclaiming way? Anyway yeah sanity check pls…does this design make sense or is it wildly contradictory lol….

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just heard “turns out, shockingly, that you can’t pray away your gay thoughts because you can’t pray away your capacity for love” from a wise Christian queer man on a tiktok comp, and i thought it’d be wise to share

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There’s nothing Christian about Christian nationalism.

It is a movement that seeks to promote the Kingdom of God through political, human power, which is the opposite of how it is supposed to spread.

I mean, not even the Big J Himself went that route. He had popularity. The people wanted to make Him a king. He could’ve taken that opportunity and reigned divinely, setting up a theocracy and establishing His kingdom on earth. This is the current goal of Christian Nationalism.

But CN fails to remember what Jesus did when the people tried to crown Him: He slipped off into the crowd and hid Himself.

He didn’t want that power.

Why do CNs ignore Jesus and pursue it then?

I am not a CN, so I can only speculate, but I think it is for selfish reasons. CNs say they are following God’s will, but God’s will has already been made clear. No, the Christian Nationalist wants power to shape the world into something that’s comfortable and convenient for themselves. (Ok, that’s human nature, and we all want that. But I dislike how CNs hide under a religious pretense to do so)

Let’s look instead at what Jesus does to advance God’s kingdom:

Eats with sinners

Heals the sick, relieving them of their suffering

Disciples the disciples

Feeds the hungry

Comforts the mourning

Corrects the hypocrites

Teaches God’s will

Washes feet

Lays down his life and dies for the sake of others

Jesus spent His life loving others. He died loving others. He calls us to keep loving others.

Christian nationalism turns Christ’s model upside down. There’s no love. There’s no comfort. There’s no good news. There is conquest and tribalism and pride and “victory,” which rings hollow in light of the Glory of the Kingdom of God. It’s all about fighting and winning.

And don’t even get me started on the evil ideologies that have emerged within the Christian nationalism movement. Slavery is defended. Enthnocentrism (state-run racism) is celebrated. All other peoples who don’t fit into a Christian mold are trampled as worthless.

Jesus said to love everyone, even those who are different than us. Especially those who are different than us. Jesus also said that Christians will be known by their love, not by the political power we amass in the name of God.

You want to prove you’re a Christian? Go out and love others, seeking no glory or power for yourself. That is where Christ will be found, not in Congress or the Constitution.

Our commands are to love God and love our neighbors (of any race, religion, sexuality, etc.). That’s it.

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HAHAHAH I love thissss. Also anabaptists get a mention? So proud. I’ll gladly be a Mennonite paladin

By all means you do not have to take on this task, but I have a request. Could you assign each D&D 5e class a denomination? If you need a list of the classes, I can DM you a link. IF you want to do this. Just figured it'd be interesting

Send me the link and I'll try!

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as a Christian, i'm expected to pray for my president, so okay...

i pray he grows a conscience.

i pray he realizes the hurt he's causing.

i pray he does the right thing and steps down.

but since none of the above is very likely...

i pray that he'll fail at the harm he tries to do as much as possible.

i pray that every attempt of his to suppress our rights will be shot down by the forces of good.

in Jesus name, amen.

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sometimes faith is so difficult like. i don't know. i get atheists that make me question my faith and christians that make me ashamed to call myself christian. so yeah sometimes i do wonder if God is real and if what I believe in is true, but at the end of the day i'm trying my best to make the world a little bit more of a loving place regardless of the outcome, and i think that's something worth holding onto

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as a Christian, when i hear people denounce God with genuine hatred, i don't get upset with them. i get upset with the so-called Christians that turned them away from Him.

because as a queer person, i understand the hurt. i know what it's like to not know Him, and i know what it's like to love Him and feel as though you've lost Him.

don't let those particular denominations convince you that you have no place in a religion they don't even understand. i promise you, they're further from God than most non-believers.

if you ever feel compelled to Christianity (or any other religion!), don't let people tell you that your identity means you have no place there. there will always be a believer that genuinely accepts all, a church that does what a church is meant to do. your sexuality, your gender, your past/present/future, the way you choose to live your life is nobody's business. religion is not an exclusive club that only the high-horse riders can join.

your sexuality or gender identity do not need to be forgiven by God. He made you that way for a reason. those who judge you with hardened hearts, they need to be forgiven by God.