#RELIGION

[lizardsfromspace]

Pointing out that the Rapture as a concept is a little less than two hundred years old - it's originally from the 1833 - that really buries the lede on how recent it is. Bc the modern evangelical take on the Rapture is from a book published in 1970. That predicted the Rapture would happen no later than 1988.

[official--eve]

I'm doing numbers on Tumblr

That number just happens to be 1

[procrastinatingfeminist]

On any given day, i can't decide which religion's practices disgust and horrify me more, scientology or mormonism. On one hand, scientology feels even more brainwash-y than mormonism, on the other hand the latter is much more normalized and widespread, and thus more insidious. High-control cults with the power to simply disappear you without consequences really disquiet me.

mormons undoubtedly in the top 5 worst things the united states has ever invented which is really saying something

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels by Jean Fouquet, c. 1450.  

[victusinveritas]

[politijohn]

Source

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[official--eve]

This is amazing

@plague-doctor-elvis I found a healthy coping skill are you proud of me :)

my therapist suggested i imagine my intrusive thoughts in the voice of donald trump bc i do not possess an ounce of respect for him or trust in his competence. going thru it today so i made this. hope this helps

[prokopetz]

I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

[jaded-but-softening]

[official--eve]

"It's Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve"

What if I transitioned right now out of pure spite WHAT THEN

[liberalsarecool]

Public schools are a public investment. They are not a christian religious school indoctrinating religious opinions.

Public money does not build churches. Public policy has no influence over church doctrine.

See how the separation works?

[theinternetarchive]

prayer niche (mihrab), iranian c. 1500s or mid 1900s.

[soup-mother]

*youth pastor voice* you know who else stayed up until 2am as a 14 year old talking a 30 year old internet friend out of suicide?

[dailyeffectiveprayer]

As you sleep tonight, God will settle that request for you.

[awesomecooperlove]

WHY THERE ARE ISLAMIC FANATICS IN AMERICA??

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