#Christianity Report

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

by Michael Gryboski | Kentucky has become the latest state to ban puberty-blocking drugs and body-mutilating sex-change surgeries for youth younger than 18 after lawmakers overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear...

[zendeyas]

Lupita Nyong'o wearing VALENTINO – The Hollywood Reporter (2022) photographed by Christian Cody

[mademoiselle-is-a-fairy]

Lupita Nyong’o photographed by Christian Cody for The Hollywood Reporter October 2022

[sainzofthetimes16]

formula one. the billionare boys club.

[heathersdesk]

From the World Report:

In 2023, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated $1.36 billion in 119 countries in humanitarian aid.

That is a truly staggering amount of money to allocate, let alone to oversee and participate in the 4,119 projects reflected in that amount.

The Church was already involved in partnerships with humanitarian aid organizations around the world. But I like to think that these increases, into over $1 billion, are a result of membership concerns about the financial holdings of the Church. Money in accounts bless no one and church members, former and current, made it clear that we want to see more of that money in the hands of those in need. And the Church is doing that.

Bottom up changes happen in the Church. What we say and do makes a difference, especially when we go to the Lord in prayer with our concerns.

[alwaysbewoke]

[jesusinstilettos]

Y’all someone posted on my small, conservative town’s local Facebook page asking “what’s going on with the UFO’s? What do you think it’s about?” And I got a true glimpse into the evangelical psyche.

Out of 87 answers, the most common answer I saw was…

“Aliens and UFO’s are being talked about so the government will have a cover up story when the rapture happens and all the Christians suddenly disappear.”

God I love it here everyone is delulu nothing about that theory makes any god damn sense I can’t believe these people vote

[badolmen]

People love ragging on Catholics on this site (fast free and easy like river water socks) but I think it’s extra funny y’all seem to think Catholics are some sort of sex prudes. Like, if a Catholic man does not give his wife an orgasm he is failing his sworn duties as a husband. I did not endure polite insinuations that my parents fucked often and well to have as many kids as they have for you to act like any self respecting Catholic is a celibate virgin. Laypeople have sex in this denomination Kaitleign. What are we, Calvinists? Jansenism is soooo 17th century Protestant Reformation-informed heresy.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

by Tre Goins-Phillips | Law enforcement officers in Alberta, Canada, reportedly arrested a teenager handing out Bibles after an altercation broke out between him, his supporters, and a group of counter-protesters. Josh Alexander, 16, tweeted Wednesday he “was handcuffed and put in a paddy wagon for offering students Bibles on...

[honeybadgercomeback]

[whorecedes18]

regardless of whether the evidence against Horner emailed to journalists and TPs today is real, theres no reason or excuse for releasing the identity of the person who made the accusations against him

[artofkhaos404]

Hey everyone! I have a big favor to ask.

I need you to report someone.

One of my posts about the toxicity of fatphobia stereotypes was recently reblogged by a user called @/lagoonadelrey. In the post I was expressing the difficulty of others not taking disordered eating habits seriously unless you're skinny. Her response was "cuz u eat plenty and it shows w ur fat."

Upon a closer inspection, her ENTIRE PAGE is DEDICATED to the demeaning of fat people. Even admitted that in one of her reblogs. Her response to my post was tame in comparison to others. People sharing their insecurities online and her replying things like "yes because you're a fat bitch and no one will love you."

As both punks and Christians in this community (sometimes both😉)... I'm sure I don't have to tell any of you that it's our responsibility to put an end to hate speech.

If we can get enough people to report her, we can stop the possibility of an already insecure person's mental health being further crushed by the hateful, unintelligent, cruel babble of an uneducated and indoctrinated individual. Here's a link to her page:

Reblog the hell out of this!

Let's end fatphobia!

@fatphobiabusters @thisisthinprivilige @oncealoseralwaysaloser @safety-pin-punk @when-you-cant-think-of-anything @purplebehittindifferent @prunpplee @funnyartthingz

[grogumaximus]

[littlemisspinky]

someone's probably already said this better than I can, but I cannot stop thinking about how perfectly Pucci and weather contrast and simultaneously reflect each other. Pucci is Christian and devotedly so, yet his stand is covered in the alphabetical symbols for DNA, which is a literal quantifiable measurement of a person and often associated with evolution and natural selection, two scientific concepts which many extreme Christians vehemently deny. And his ability is to distill a person's entire being, their memory (and with it, their personality), and their Stand, into a physical object. He essentially has the ability to transform the ethereal, formless soul into something tangible, and a manmade piece of technology, at that. Weather, on the other hand, doesn't seem to share his brother's religious convictions, and yet has the ability to manipulate the heavens themselves. His ability evokes the very idea of divinity and is literally nearly god-like.

In Pucci's memories, parallels between depictions of the devil and Dio can easily be drawn. They first meet when Dio is hiding out in the church after hours. Dio is an invader, a creature of the night encroaching on holy ground and Pucci welcomes him in, suspecting but not genuinely knowing his true nature. It's ironic to know that "Dio" is Italian for "God." Pucci is drawn in by a man who calls himself god but is actually a demon. And Pucci's final plea to Dio whilst holding his sister's corpse feels quite Faustian; he'll give anything to bring back his dead loved one. And Dio, in a twisted way, delivers: Pucci is able to salvage his sister's soul, but nothing can be done with it. It's just a disc, a reel that he can view like a movie.

When Pucci finally "kills" his brother--aka taking his soul-- Weather is next seen in prison with his devil-horned hat for the first time. The irony is that Weather hasn't really done wrong. He committed no real crime aside from being unable to control an ability he was cursed with. Pucci's stand is a curse, too, in a way-- Pucci's stand, in appearance and ability, directly contradicts all of his religious beliefs; he is forced to stare his bleak reality in the eyes when faced with White Snake. Weather's is more directly harmful to those around him: he turns people into snails, causing them to lose their humanity and decay. It is corrosive, perhaps as he believed himself to be, blaming himself for bringing on his own and Perla's misfortune.

One of Stone Ocean's themes is appearances not being what they seem. The convict seeks justice and love. The corpse is alive and walking. And the man in the priest's garb is a devil, while the man with devil horns is innocent.

[christianbalefanatic]

Christian Bale as Capt. Joseph J. Blocker in Hostiles (2017) dir. Scott Cooper

(christianbalefanatic edit)