#bible says nothing about lgbt

[cobalt-axolotl]

The Bible says humanity is made in gods image

And there are at least infinite genders there for god must be non binary

In this essay I will…

[artist-issues]

Hello there! I saw your post about undertale and I might be a little confused. Are you saying that it's not wrong to engage in media like undertale that portrays LGBT as good, as long as we make it known that it's a sin? I personally enjoy Undertale (minus the sin), because of the fun characters and the idea of showing mercy when possible instead of fighting. I've seen some really good insights from your blog and I admire that! It's actually helping me with ideas for me to start writing. God bless you!

I'm so happy to hear from you, and to hear all this! You know, anything good I've said is good because of God, in spite of me.

What I meant was, if you're a "public fan" (a streamer, a fanartist, a fanfiction author, any kind of influencer or content creator, etc.) I would make it known in everything you put out that the thing you're a fan of is incorrectly labeling sin. It's calling something sinful something "good," and so I'd say if you're a Christian, your role is to point to Christ. And if you're pointing at something that says the opposite of what He would say, (like "LGBTQ+ is good") without calling it out as a lie, you're kind of doing the opposite of your role. You're becoming just another flashing sign pointing people to a piece of work that, however enjoyable, is lying to them.

But as far as whether or not YOU are free to "enjoy" Undertale while "ignoring" the stuff in it that's sinful...I think that's up to what Christians call your "personal conviction." Paul ate meat that was sacrificed to idols because HE knew that the idols were just stone and wood, and God had freed him from having to consider that meat "sacred." He knew the difference between what was right and wrong about the meat that had been made for idols, so he was free to enjoy it in the context of that knowledge. (Christians call that "discernment.")

BUT! When he was around other believers, or anyone who would freak out or start to doubt or get distracted from Jesus by what Paul was doing, he did not eat the meat. Because it's always more important to point people to the truth and Jesus, in general, than it is to enjoy something for yourself.

I hope that helps! I would study the Bible about this kind of thing. And also, pray. If you're feeling uneasy about enjoying Undertale, because that sinful stuff is in there, pray about it. See whether or not, good and bad, it's distracting you in some way from Christ, or building up an affection in you for things that have nothing to do with Him.

Thanks for asking! I'm not an expert in these things. Check what God Himself actually says in the Bible about this sort of thing; it's always better than anything I have to say, or anyone has to say.

[pyxaperson]

I am procrastinating on my uni assignments so here’s the 2012!TMNT main cast ranked on who would be homophobic/transphobic

1 being the most and 6 being the least

this is my opinion and my interpretation. i will fight people for one of these rankings if they disagree with me

6 - April

You cannot convince me she isn’t a 2012 Tumblr girl like… look at her. She spent most of her teenage years debating with homophobes on the internet. She would 100% watch supernatural and 100% ship Castiel.

"Would she fetishise mlm relationships?" NO. She would also watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer and ship Fuffy. She reads yaoi AND yuri in her spare time.

If she swoons over a mutant and an alien getting together, she will 100% do the same for a gay couple.

Probably taught the others not to be homophobic (mostly the top 3).

If you believe she hates the LGBT+ community, I am sorry but you are objectively wrong I will be hunting you for sport right now. I am outside your house with the episode "Karai's Vendetta" playing loudly on my laptop.

5 - Donnie

“Erm actually, homosexual behaviour has been heavily documented in animals such as penguins, bats and hyenas. It’s very much natural.“

While I cannot imagine him ever being homophobic, I can imagine him being transphobic when he was younger.

BUT I only think that because the primary school biology textbook was his bible when he was five.

As soon as he had access to a more “advanced” biology book, he learnt his mistakes.

Had a deep understanding of gender before his brother understood the differences between them as a result of this.

4 - Mikey

Thinks LGBT+ people are awesome, however his only exposure to gay people is rupaul drag race so his views on them are stereotypical.

He would probably be taken aback if you introduced him to a gay man who isn’t flamboyant, but he would adjust after a bit.

He would definitely say “You don’t look gay” though.

Aside from April, he would be the most angry when hearing homophobic/transphobic comments.

3 - Leo

The middle point between homophobic and not homophobic for the group (even though she's seconds lmao, the group is just not really homophobic).

I headcanon her as a trans lesbian so any homophobic/transphobic thoughts she would have are a mixture of her sheltered life and internalised issues.

Nothing extreme though, but her mind would get hung up on two girls holding hands on the street for multiple days.

She would also go through the 5 stages of grief for every unprompted homophobic thought she gets.

Everyone helps her overcome this, especially after she discovers herself and comes out.

2 - Raph

I am sorry, but he would probably use homophobic language before meeting April.

However, that’s due to him not understanding what he was saying. He probably thought gay was a synonym for stupid.

Once he understands who LGBT+ people are and what they face (AKA being scolded by April), he would probably feel really bad about it.

He wouldn’t really apologise for it verbally, but he would 100% kill a homophobe after that so everyone understands he’s changed.

Mikey would then make fun of him for being homophobic which would get him really mad. It's revenge for Raph calling him gay to insult him and brushing his genuine anger off.

“At least I’m not-“ “I’M NOT HOMOPHOBIC MIKEY!”

1 - Casey

I am not sorry, this dude was definitely homophobic before meeting the Turtles + April. Like, actually homophobic.

His dad is homophobic so it comes from that.

He called Donnie the f-slur behind his back to the rest of the group. To put it lightly, they were not impressed.

The first moment where he questions his behaviour is when April rips him to shreds over it, but it’s not until Raph pulls him aside to express disappointment that he realises how bad his behaviour is.

Probably goes MIA for a couple of days undergoing serious reflection on his life and beliefs. He then comes back to apologise for his behaviour.

He takes some time to truly overcome his bigotry, but he gets there eventually. Like Raph, he'll kill a homophobe after the ordeal.

[foulbearobservation]

hi good morning have we considered ava calling bea "pretty boy" as a joke once like "okay calm down," she says, running a hand absentmindedly through beatrice's hair where it's lose around her neck, "I'm still gonna think you're gorgeous if you cut your hair, prettyboy" before going back to reading her magazine and bea just like. straight up has three gender crisis in a row. and ava only looks up from her magazine after bea has been silent for a solid ten minutes. "you alright babe?"

"I—um. I don't know." beatrice says like it physically pains her. She doesn't like not knowing.

ava walks back through the conversation, carefully poking around for the trigger phrase. She hadn't really said anything interesting just—ah. "Did you not like it when I called you prettyboy? I wasn't thinking, I'm sorry."

beatrice chooses her words with a carefulness that most reserve for disarming bombs. "I... I enjoyed it."

Several things about bea come into starker focus now, things bea probabaly doesn't realize that she does. "Do you wanna talk about it? Or wait until you've gathered your thoughts a bit more?"

beatrice again takes one of those long silences where she searches through every language she knows for precisely the right word. "I don't want to be a man." She says, the little confused crease between her eyebrows making an appearance. "I don't... I want time I think?"

ava shrugs, thoroughly nonplussed, "no matter what's going on in that handsome head of yours, you're still my person."

beatrice takes a few weeks to gather her thoughts. ava sees her walking around with a veritable library's worth of lgbt literature.

"I've made up my mind on the prettyboy issue," she says one day in the most beatrice way possible.

"yeah?" ava tries to keep her face neutral as beatrice joins her on the couch.

beatrice takes out a notecard and ava falls in love all over again. "I would enjoy it if you called me prettyboy." she reads off her little card. "I've been doing some reading and have some other terms of endearment that I think I would like as well, if you want them."

love me, beatrice is saying without words, love me in the way I want to be loved. she offers up the notecard. ava ignores the way bea's hand shakes just a little bit as she takes the card.

ava scans the card quickly, "I love you so much," she says, because it's true.

bea lets out a breath she probably didn't even know she was holding and deflates back into the couch a bit. ava clambers onto her lap. "were you nervous? is that why you busted out the notecards?" ava smiles and pokes at bea's cheek.

"I didn't know how you would react to me wanting to be called," bea's voice lowers like it's a secret, like they're not the only two sitting in their apartment right now, "your boyfriend sometimes."

"babe, I mean this with nothing but love in my heart. I don't care. I can handle some gender fuckery," ava says, then, tilting her head to the side, adds "outside of my own gender fuckery, of course."

"I just," bea's head falls forward, tucking herself into ava's chest, "I love being a lesbian but then you called me prettyboy and..."

ava makes a soft soothing noise, trying to stave off beatrice's butch lesbian gender crisis part 2, if only because it really does seem to stress bea out. "baby you're mine, no matter what pronouns or terms of affection you want used." she kisses the top of bea's head. "plus, do you know how much fun I'm gonna have with this? Hans is gonna be SO confused when I start talking about my boyfriend, AND I get to call you prettyboy more often, so really just a win win for me."

they sit in silence for a while until ava starts playing with beatrice's hair, moving her head this way and that as she does.

"what are you doing?"

"I know you were thinking about just cutting a few inches off, but I really think you could kill that sort of floppy haired eboy look."

"none of those words are in the bible, ava."

[mutable-manifestation]

Hello, I’m Ameera a 23 years old Muslim lesbian who is trying to come out, I’ve been in the closet with my girlfriend for way too long, because of how dangerous and hard it is to come out as a lesbian to a religious Muslim family, but me and my girlfriend have decided to do whatever it takes and risk it all to come out, do you mind supporting and encouraging us?, though I know we all have what we dealing with, so I’m not imposing we just need all the support and encouragement we can get, check my pinned post for more information on how you can support, if you are a Muslim queer and you are out, please help with tips on how to make it less complicated, any word of advice is also really needed, we really wanna come out but we need y’all 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ pride please come through for us, I believe pride is for all

Hi Ameera!

I saw on one of your other posts that you already have an exit strategy and are prepared to move out and cut contact should that be necessary for your safety, so I don't see any reason why you shouldn't come out if it's what you want!

I shall be wishing for your family to surprise you with acceptance and support, and for your contingencies to be unnecessary.

I am a Christian rather than a Muslim, so I can't speak to the specifics of your situation, but - if you haven't already - I'd recommend looking into what your religious text(s?) say about the LGBT+ community.

The first thing I did when I realized I was a lesbian was research.

The most I'd ever heard about gay people growing up was "gay marriage bad >:(" and even that only seemed to crop up around when gay marriage beginning to get legalized, so I looked into all of the relevant verses and tried to reconcile my sexuality with my faith.

I didn't want to go looking for validation, I just wanted answers, information, so I could gather my thoughts from there. So I looked at both sides.

The arguments I found that explained the bible as not against LGBT+ were all rooted in study and logic - meanings of words that were oversimplified in translation, historical contexts that I had been lacking prior, etc. All of it was rooted in trying to understand the original texts as and when they were written.

The arguments against LGBT+ all seemed to parrot the modern bible and "homosexuality is a sin" with no other arguments - or at least, no other arguments that could be applied only to homosexual people (example: "but gay couples can't have children!!!" yeah okay neither can infertile/sterile people and they can still get married/it isn't a sin for them to be in relationships). They were also all written with a hostile, hateful undertone (or overtone in some cases). Which. Christians are supposed to be known for our love, so any rhetoric based in hatred... and not even logic to back it? yeah. No.

The arguments explaining gay = okay were all based in love, compassion, and understanding - in logic and research.

So.

It was easy enough for me to reconcile my faith and my sexuality because, as it happens, there was nothing incompatible about the two!

(To any side b or x christians who may read this: this isn't an invite to debate, you literally cannot change my mind and also I will simply block you. This is not my Theological Discussions account)

I'm not quite sure how Islam sees the LGBT+ community in terms of religious rhetoric - from my (very) brief research the only thing I could find was a quote or two about Sodom and Gomorrah, which I've seen plenty of break-downs regarding, though what the Quran (or other Islamic texts?) says may differ.

Once you've done your research and come to terms with the information as needed (again, if you haven't already), I'd write a list of common questions and arguments you're family might make and come up with responses.

I don't know your family. They may shut down and simply tell you to get out and never return. (the worst case scenario [I hope - I don't know your family but if you think there is any possibility of physical violence I would definitely recommend either a video call - so you can see facial expressions - or staying near an exit while coming out])

They might ask you for space to think (okay scenario - kinda in limbo here).

They may surprise you with acceptance (best case scenario)

But they may ask questions and try to argue (middling case scenario).

They may ask things like why you're gay, argue that it's against your religion, etc. In this case, you have a chance to talk them into being supportive.

So.

Lists.

Brainstorm questions with your girlfriend - as many as you both can think of - and go through them. A lot of answers will be easy, some you might need to think more about/do research on (at least, that's my experience). But at least you'll both be armed with all the information you might need in the middling scenario (and it makes it harder for them to make you doubt yourselves, if that's something either of you might struggle with).

Of course, if you've already accepted the possible need to cut contact and gotten ready to move out you might've already thought of all this. Still, I hope this has been of at least some help to you, even if that's just by serving as a reminder that you aren't alone in this and that there's a community out here that supports you.

I'll be wishing you luck; I hope both you and your girlfriend get the best case scenario :)

[goddessofwisdom18]

your favorite character being largely disliked by both the stans and the antis is actually so devastating. where am i supposed to go

there are three main opinions about mor in this fandom:

1. she’s fine bc she’s feyre’s bestie but you don’t really care about her personally (probably bc she’s queer because the stan girlies used to LOVE mor when moriel was semi-canon. i remember. i was there)

2. she’s fine but annoying bc she ~lead azriel on~ (main opinion on the acotar subreddit). never mind that if this was true, it would be as a result of a retcon, because again, pre acowar, moriel was going to be canon. sarah made mor sapphic because we were asking for more lgbt characters. (again. i was there.) and besides, i frankly don't think it is true, because azriel is the fucking spymaster with a million chances of knowledge at his fingertips and mor spent 80% of her time at a gay bar so idk how he couldn't have fucking known?

3. or she’s the fucking worst because she was. idk. mean to nesta. you know who else was mean??? and people love that about her because it's a result of trauma, it makes her flawed and relatable? literally nesta T_T this is not anti nesta i just don’t get it.

4. she's the fucking worst because she… supposedly lied about eris? ?? i'm not even going to begin to unpack this. why y'all IMMEDIATELY take the man's side and think what he's saying is bible… i don't fucking know. learn to decenter men in your life my friend. sometimes women ARE telling the truth even if they're basic or pick mes or whatever.

mor’s traumatized as hell and definitely has as much to back up her occasional cattiness as nesta had to back up her literal life long bullying. but few people will give her a feminist reading. few people will analyze how sarah wrote her story or what that means. few people will even give her credit as a real villain. she’s just an annoying pick-me bitch and that’s the end of it.

think about the lack of grace rhysand gives nesta. think about what that might mean for mor, to whom rhys (and his friends) was a sort of savior, because her life in the hewn city was that bad that somehow dealing with rhysand is better. that was who she grew up with; that was what she was taught to see as good because at least it wasn’t keir.

not to mention that her life is shaped around her survival via her desirability to males. ESPECIALLY as a sapphic woman can you imagine what that would do to her psyche?

but no. no fan posts about her. no headcanons. nothing nada. just me and the mor week posts and the occasional obligatory stan reference bc she's part of the main cast.

i understand being annoyed bc of the double standard in canon between her and nesta's heavy drinking, but even then i see posts all the time about "i would love rhys if it weren't for the narrative's worship of him!" and none for mor because she's just a ghost. she's nothing to anybody. despite being A MAIN CHARACTER!

not to mention but like. generally positioning yourself perpetually in opposition to the paradigm rather than just having values whether they're popular or not is not a great way to go about things. i completely understand liking eris regardless of what he's done - i am a tamlin stan despite the fact that he was very well abusive in acomaf - but the fact that there are antis out there who are so convinced mor is lying, or who want sarah to write that storyline, is so digusting to me. women in groups you don't like, political sides you don't like, women you think are annoying - they still deserved to be believed. don't give into respectability politics. come on now.

[anamericangirl]

I'm a bisexual ex-Christian who used to be devoted. I didn't leave the Church directly because of the LGBT situation, but it factored into it.

I was raised Protestant, and we believed the Bible was infallible and absolute. I couldn't reconcile my faith with the story of Sodom and Gomorrah or Paul's infamous verse (1 Corinthians 6:9-20), where homosexuals are added to the wicked who will not inherit the Kingdom of God. It was clear to me (and fundamentalist Christians) that God didn't favor homosexuality favorably. The thought of Paul being biased or the story being misinterpreted was discouraged.

The Bible shaped the perspective on homosexuality, and Christians are just acting accordingly. To be accepted by the Church, homosexuals must believe their instincts are unnatural. We believe in demons and evil spirits, and homosexuality was seen as that. An evil spirit that causes an individual to be attracted to the same sex. It needed to be 'cast out' of an individual, and, done successfully, if ever, the homosexual magically becomes straight or, at the very least, becomes attracted to the opposite sex.

I don't think same-sex attracted individuals who grew up Protestant and were devoted to it would feel authentic by embracing their same-sex attraction and being Christian. It means we'd have to be liberal about it, cherry-pick what we deem acceptable to adhere to, and leave out the rest. That would classify us as lukewarm, and Jesus would prefer us to be cold instead.

It's unfortunate for those who still feel drawn to Christianity, but it wouldn't be feasible to get back into it. The fundie phase is over.

This sounds more to me like you left Christianity because you don't like what God says in the Bible about homosexuality and what the church teaches about it, not necessarily because the church pushed you away because you are bisexual. Although I wasn't there and I don't know.

But here's the thing: God is the creator of the whole world and everyone and everything in it. We only know if things are good or bad because of Him. Only God decides what is and is not sin. It's not up to us. To follow God, we all have to give things up. Just because we feel something is natural does not mean it is good. Natural sexual drives do not generally lean towards the standards God has laid out for us to follow. No one really has a natural sexual drive to wait until marriage for sex. People don't generally have a natural sexual drive to have sex with just one person. Everyone one has to make the choice not give in to our natural sexual instincts in order to follow God and live up to His standards.

Our culture today is telling people that sexual immorality basically does not exist because everything about sexuality is good. If you want it and it brings you pleasure then it's good. It tells us that you wouldn't feel a desire for something if God had not made you that way. But that's a harmful message. It's not true. We are all sinful people and our natural instincts are not always good. That's why it's challenging to give things up and follow God and it's a choice we have to constantly make. And we fail because we give in to our natural desires instead of obeying God.

What it sounds like to me is you know God's teachings about sexual immorality, but you did not want to accept them because you value your own desires over God and that's a choice you're free to make. It's true to be a Christian you can't cherry pick what you want to believe. It's got to be all or nothing.

What I'm saying is people can be gay and Christian. You will hear messages you don't want to hear, but they're messages you need to hear. We all need to hear them. There are not Christians who are not actively struggling with sin and you don't have to be sin-free to be part of the church. But you do have to be willing to understand that you might be doing something God has deemed a sin. And He doesn't call things sins just for fun. If it really was good and pure and nothing wrong with it He wouldn't call it a sin, but we have to trust Him even if we don't always understand His reasons. So yes, I can imagine it would be very difficult for a Protestant or any Christian to fully embrace their same-sex attraction and Christianity. That's where choice comes in. People can listen to God or they can listen to themselves.

I am sorry you left the church and I know it's not easy to adhere to something that commands you to stop doing something you don't want to stop because it's true, you can't truly follow and love God if you also want to embrace behavior He has clearly condemned. And this is where I think the church could step up and be more helpful. People need to understand that the church will not accept sin, but they shouldn't be under the impression that they can't go to church or seek help from it, or be a Christian because they are sinning.

[holyluvr]

Not only am I going through my big ol’ Schizo mid twenties psychotic breakdown while on so many medications that I can barely function or think or feel in control of myself— which definitely leaves an impression and bias with most medical doctors even when it’s more sensical to believe that there’s a medical problem(there’s noted evidence of medical abnormalities and plenty of witnesses who were cursed to see it happening to me). As well as being with people who are unstable and unhealthy for me but currently no means to leave them, my mental instability is likely going to be Hell to have me taken seriously at all and maybe dangerous in this area. I’m also LGBT+ in a homophobic trad conservative county with a judge who has literally said that gays go to Hell and refused federal orders for same sex marriage equality until the very last moment they were about to be summoned to the fuckin’ ummm idk it was a gov threat of trial so I wanna say Supreme Court but that sounds too wild to be true. I’ll have to google later what my asshole county leadership’s settlement was about lol but I’m pretty sure we were one of if not the last recorded to marry homosexuals anywayyyyyyyyyy yes I get drinks thrown at me from passing trucks :)) and doctors who blame COVID-19 fevers at ER levels on gender nonconformity and who tell me that they cannot believe I’m mutilating the beautiful body God blessed me with while they have tattoos of Bible verses and flowers all over their exposed forearms and a receptionist with fake lips and lifted brows.

I don’t know if my next doctors will help me out. I don’t know if it’s nothing or dangerous because both came up in appointments, and doctors kept contradicting each other or saying they weren’t sure. My family medical history is a disaster, and I unfortunately would be the highest risk out of my siblings to have dormant sicknesses triggered. I had a virus known to cause life altering complications around the same time that this happened coupled with some events that gave me New and Improved Upgraded PTSD. I was also in active recovery from life threatening alcoholism/addiction and trying to learn how to live sober, which I think probably put my immune system in danger or could have thrown off anything that made me more vulnerable to being sick (before then, I almost never was sick. It was a family joke that I couldn’t get sick. I was called Superman when it came to health— almost no sense of pain until 2019, then it was disabling pain by May 2020).

I want to hope I have some toxin exposure that can be eased and undone with time and not Lupus. Or that it’s from injury dominoing that PT will fix rather than a mixed connective tissue disease to live with forever. Let’s hope it’s secondary symptoms from my health declining and not any sort of cancer or autoimmune disorder or genetic condition or endocrine system failure or liver damage or neurological disease,…

I want to be better. The best thing that could happen to me is to be given an answer and treatment and then feel good. I want more than anything in the damn world to walk into the office and have a convo to find out that it’s my thyroid medicine being a bit off with a coincidental injury that strained my body left uncared for but can be helped. That’s all I want more than anything, and it hurts and is frightening and makes me anxious because I don’t think that’s what’s going to happen. I’m scared for my future. I don’t know how to live as a disabled person, and all my passions will be stripped and become dead dreams. I don’t know what I’ll hold onto or look up to anymore. I don’t know who I will be. I don’t know HOW I’ll be because I’m poor and it’s not like I have a support system. I just want to be told that this was all a misunderstanding, and that it’s something harmless that can be reversed or helped or anything that fucking gives me hope for the future. And I’m equally as scared as not getting any answers.

[queer-advice-hotline]

To the anon who is struggling with their faith and identity, hi. I get you. I’m in the same boat in a lot of ways. (Discussion of anti-science rhetoric, lgbt-phobia, and conservative Christian stuff for anyone who doesn’t wanna read that)

I was raised Christian, and taught that evolution and the Big Bang were false. I was taught that dinosaurs were real and the earth was billions of years old, but we were still creationists.

I was also taught that being gay or trans was sinful and that gay marriage shouldn’t be legalized. My family was never outright hostile (my uncle is gay and we always loved him, even though “we just don’t agree with his decision” ugh), but clearly bigoted.

I was also raised in baptist churches, who absolutely love to quote the same three verses over and over in order to tell women (like myself) that our whole purpose is to shut up and bear children and take care of the house, that we are to obey our fathers and husbands in everything and cannot teach men at all. Fortunately my parents at least hated that BS, and after every sermon regarding that point my mom would lecture us that that was the only thing she disagreed with with our church, and that me and my sisters could be whatever we wanted to be. She continually pointed out the instances that contradicted what our churches had said about women’s roles.

When I went to college, I made friends, met people with wildly different backgrounds, and began to form my own opinions. I am a supporter of lgbt rights (I believe that there is strong evidence that wording was changed to condemn homosexuality, and that even if it’s a sin, we are called to love each other first and foremost, and that we cannot force our religious beliefs upon anyone else, and that respecting someone’s sexuality and pronouns is just basic fucking courtesy. I’ve even convinced my trump-supporting grandparents to use peoples preferred pronouns and respect gay marriages, with the logic that “you believe it’s sinful, but they don’t, and you can’t force your religious perspective on them. There is nothing loving about making them uncomfortable just because you disagree.”

I also strongly believe in scientific theories like evolution and the Big Bang. There’s plenty of evidence, and if you read genesis with fresh eyes it’s pretty clear to me it’s highly symbolic, not literal. I can believe God created the universe and that he did so through the Big Bang. I can believe God created humans in his image through the process of evolution.

As I was expanding and changing my worldview, I also realized that I was aroace. I’ve never been interested in dating, I don’t find men good looking at all, and my appreciation for women’s beauty is more similar to how someone would appreciate a painting, not someone they want to date or marry or have sex with.

And I don’t believe it’s a problem for me to stay single either. When I told my mom she immediately told me that the Bible says that singleness is, for many, a gift, and only a different path, not a wrong one.

I often don’t know what God’s intention is, but I do know that Christians are called to be the light of the world. So I will always be kind and loving, because that is how you be a light. I always pray for better understanding of how I should do things, but in the end the most important thing is to be kind.

Sorry if that was rambly, I just wanted to let you know that you aren’t alone in these struggles, and that you can believe different things without being a bad person. Personally, my family doesn’t know that I’m now fairly liberal and that I believe in evolution and the Big Bang and such, but I’m okay with that. If they find out, I’ll tell them more or less what I just said here. Best of luck to you and to anyone else in a similar situation 💛

Thanks for sharing, I’m sure this will be helpful for a lot of people.

[snow-and-shadow-fairy]

About Me

This is my feminism sideblog. I have always been a feminist although there have definitely been times where I had feminist awakenings by discovering just how evil men are. I was raised by conservative Christian parents. My mother was a stay at home mother and loved criticising other women for not doing that, for working instead of taking care of their children. Even as a child I thought she was insane and sexist. I saw that women couldn't live lives the way men could if they had children. At dinner we would all sit in silence while my father monologued about his day at work and whatever else he wanted to talk about.

My first feminist awakening was reading the Bible when I was about 19 and 20. There was so much woman hating in there that I just couldn't take it anymore. Non Christians may know about the Ten Commandments given to Moses, but they are just a small section of many rules. One of the rules was that if a woman is raped and she is not married, she must marry her rapist. (May update this later when I can be bothered to find it.) I saw then that men do not see rape as assault, but theft of another man's property. The Bible is split into two sections. The Old Testament, which is before Jesus, and the New Testament, during and after Jesus. Christians tend to worship the New Testament and pick and choose which bits of the Old Testament they want to follow, which I never understood. For example, they will agree with the bits that condemn homosexuality, but when presented with stuff like "marry your rapist", they will say, yeah, that's bad, but don't worry, you don't have to do that anymore. I didn't understand why they were picking and choosing which rules to follow. As a Christian, I thought shouldn't we follow all the rules? But I didn't agree with the rules, or with Christians picking and choosing their own rules, so I stopped being a Christian.

My second was joining tumblr and seeing the misogyny of the trans rights movement. I'm straight, and I wanted to be a good ally to LGBT people, so at first I just thought it was fine, everyone has the right to respect. But I soon found out just how insane they were. My "peak trans" moment was reading this article in buzzfeed about the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She was asked in an interview about trans women, and I saw nothing wrong with her response. Reading the article I realised that transgender people don't live in the world of reality. I learned that trans women really believe they are actually women, and to say that they were once men is not only wrong, but hate speech. I didn't understand this at all. Surely that's why they were trans women? Also, annoying sjw (for lack of a better phrase) types on the internet love to bang on about intersectional feminism, demonizing the straight white man, and supporting people with marginalized identities, the more marginalized, the better. Yet here was a black women talking about feminism, and hordes of white men (I refused to see them as women anymore) were telling her to shut up. I saw how fake people who bang on about straight white men really are. She didn't say anything offensive, but they were acting like she'd called for their extinction. It didn't make sense.

After that I started following feminist blogs on tumblr. Most of them were lesbians, and I discovered that not only was the trans movement sexist, but it was also homophobic. I tried reblogging their posts, because hey, people on tumblr hate homophobia, right? They love gay people? Wrong. I couldn't believe how many people blocked and unfollowed me for suggesting that lesbians shouldn't have to be attracted to trans women. Eventually I got tired and deleted tumblr. I have a new fandom blog now, completely free of any feminism. I decided to start a feminism blog to post any thoughts I have. I reblog other people's posts at https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snow-and-shadow-fairy-archive.

I believe that sex is the most important part of feminism. Men want sex from women. They want women to be sexually available at all times. Pornography and prostitution abolition should be the main focus of feminism. Women not having to have sex with men if they don't want to should be the main focus of feminism.

Feminists who love to talk about intersectional feminsim love talking about race but never talk about sexuality. Lesbians face the most discrimination due to not wanting to have sex with men. I always knew how creepy men were about lesbians but finding out about the trans rights movement and hearing the phrase "cotton ceiling" really disgusted me even more. It's really sad that "intersectional" feminists don't talk about the intersection of sexism and homophobia. The right pretend that it is only disadvantaged men who assault women. Meanwhile the left pretends that it is only advantaged men who assault women, and do not care when disadvantaged men do it. It's disgusting to see the left completely ignore the misogyny, homophobia and lesbophobia of the trans movement.

Even though I am attracted to men I have never been in a relationship with one and never will. I am genuinely scared of men. I can't even imagine loving one. I'm happy being single. I was delighted when I found out about the South Korean 4B movement. I think that's exactly what women need everywhere.

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Ask and submission turned off because some people keep telling me to kill myself, calling me horrid stuff and wouldn't stop baiting me to debate about fanfic morality.

It's been going on for a while, but it has become more intense in the past few days. Usually i got some from people who disagreed with my dragon age takes or because I'm a very vocal LGBT leftist who is pro inclusion

But anon hate fanfic? That's new, maybe I recently got it because of my anti Tiffany G/anti AO3 censorship post or because i wouldn't shut up about horny Star wars fanfic and stuff

The sign begin from this ask i feel

Some anon keep calling me 'disgusting pro ship' 'pro ship kys' even though I'm NOT putting that label on myself, I just don't want to make a big deal of fanworks, I'm not even agreeing with all ship or all kind of fan art.

( Okay maybe I have 0 moral high ground because i like reading Hiddleston x reader, don't look at me, my life suck and I'm lonely) GOD saying you are not into fandom harassment and you are anti fandom harassment even towards fanfic or fanwork that you don't like is enough to make people coming after your ass and telling you that you should suffer and die.

That you are disgusting and nothing... 0 equality advocacy that you do matters because you are not into fandom crusading

If i don't like something? I wouldn't read it. If something is REALLY GENUINELY BAD and REALLY WORTHY of report, then i will block and report without doxxing or harassing

Life is more than anti vs pro ship discourse

Another one wouldn't stop yelling about how I 'ruined' Obi wan with my horny kinky story whatever and I should quit Star Wars fandom

if you want me to die please let's talk in DM. I'll tell you my address and you can shoot me or hang me myself. Go on, come here I dare you

Also darlin if you want to tell someone to die, don't bother to use KYS, you are already horrible anyway. Just say it "kill yourself"

That person who told me to read the bible over omegaverse is super tame compared with the asks that I deleted. I didn't turn off ask for so long because there are funny or nice asks

Okay this is a bit funny but still condensing. This is tame btw...

It's getting too disturbing. I'm done

[mariacallous]

Novak was the public face and driver of Fidesz’s campaign to present Hungary as a bastion of Christian family values. Her resignation over the pardoning of a paedophile’s accomplice compromises Orban’s domestic and international messaging.

“I gave birth to three children, so I personally experienced how much a helpless, vulnerable life is in need of security and protection,” the outgoing president of Hungary, Katalin Novak, said in her resignation statement on Saturday evening.

Novak’s short speech announcing her departure, while also seeking to mitigate the anger directed against her in recent days over a paedophile-pardoning scandal, closed with a blessing and partial quotation from the Lord’s Prayer: “Oh God, bless the nation of Hungary! For yours is the kingdom, yours is the power, yours is the glory.”

That combination of family and religious motifs in Novak’s farewell message to the country befits her career as a whole. While the religious practice of many senior Fidesz members is nominal (despite its Conservative Christian branding), Novak’s is understood to be devout, involving both daily bible study and active membership of the Reformed Church – the largest Protestant church in Hungary.

With her 2014 appointment as state secretary for family and youth affairs, then family minister from 2020-22, she has been both the public face of Fidesz’s family policies and the author of many of its features. Those include measures against the LGBT community, whom she has frequently painted as a threat to the safety of Hungary’s children.

“Nothing is more important than our children… As the LGBT+ propaganda in the Western world is now targeting kindergarten kids and schoolchildren, we have to be vigilant,” she told Fidesz-aligned outlet Mandiner in an interview given ahead of Hungary’s 2022 referendum on LGBT issues.

Yet the credibility of Fidesz’s Conservative Christian message fell further on Sunday night when joint investigative work by Telex and Direkt 36 revealed more damaging religious dimensions to the story about Novak’s decision to pardon the deputy director of a state orphanage who had been convicted of covering up systematic child abuse by his manager.

The online portals alleged that the pardon for the criminal – identified as Endre Konya, who was nine months short of serving a sentence of three years and four months – came about at the intercession of Zoltan Balog, the presiding bishop of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

Konya is understood to have deep family roots in the Reformed Church and, according to unnamed sources close to the president’s office, Bishop Balog secured his pardon by telling the president that the matter was “very important to the church”.

Balog and Novak have been described in the media as “exceptionally close” ever since the bishop, formerly a Fidesz cabinet minister, served as Novak’s boss at the Ministry of Human Resources in the 2010s. “Kata [Novak] can refuse him nothing,” a source told Telex.

On Tuesday morning, Bishop Balog attended an emergency meeting of the church’s executive committee in Budapest. After discussing the matter for five hours, members voted to retain their confidence in him, but also demanded changes in his engagement with public life.

In a subsequent statement, Balog acknowledged involvement in the pardon had been an error. “I was wrong and I made a mistake,” he said.

The problem now facing the government is neatly summarised by Remy Bonny, executive director of the international LGBT advocacy group, Forbidden Colours. “Once again, Fidesz’s hypocrisy becomes clear,” Bonny says, pointing to the irony of Fidesz “saying that LGBTIQ+ activists endanger children, while their main proponent of ‘traditional family values’ released an accomplice to child sex abuse”.

This, he claims, “shows Fidesz is the real danger to Hungarian children”.

Novak the ‘family’ advocate

“Katalin Novak was Prime Minister Orban’s most powerful anti-gender ambassador,” argues Neil Datta, executive director of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF) in Brussels.

Her apparent moderation of tone and manner when compared to other tub-thumping Fidesz figures, he believes, “gave a respectable face to intolerance and undermining human rights”.

Over a decade, Novak incrementally built a significant profile in the sphere of global ultra-conservative values advocacy. Starting from the time of her appointment as state secretary in the Ministry of Human Resources, she became a key fixture at international conferences on family issues, many with a strong anti-LGBT edge.

“You could even describe Novak as a co-leader of the international anti-LGBTIQ+ movement,” Bonny of Forbidden Colours says.

Most notably, Novak was a co-founder of the Political Network for Values (PNfV). Indeed, according to Bonny, “through PNfV and own her personal lobbying in Washington during the [Donald] Trump-era, she was instrumental in uniting 34 states in the Geneva Consensus Declaration [of 2020]” – a commitment to prohibit abortion and marriage equality for same-sex couples.

Such linkages with foreign governments on cultural issues proved increasingly important to Budapest as it faced growing isolation among EU and NATO partners. Novak leant the international image factual credibility by spearheading flagship domestic policies during her period as, first, state secretary and, later, minister for family affairs.

These included the abolition of adoption rights for same-sex couples and the Fidesz government’s flagship “Family Policy”, a generous package of preferential loans, tax breaks and grants for married couples who committed to having children. Indeed, Fidesz’s “family values” messaging became so personally identified with Novak that on her elevation to the presidency in 2022, Orban did not appoint a successor to her as family minister.

Instead, her previous role’s administrative tasks were absorbed by the Human Resources Ministry, while Novak carried its representative functions into the presidency; her contribution was seen as simply irreplaceable. “Novak’s purpose was to embody Prime Minister Orban’s morality agenda in state diplomatic channels,” describes Datta.

Has Fidesz’s ‘pro-family’ stance become a liability?

Novak’s centrality to the topic presents serious plausibility problems for Fidesz in continuing to utilise “Christian Family Values” as a messaging tool at home and abroad. Experts, however, differ as to the severity of the harm done.

Looking at the situation from within Hungary,Janos Reichert, religious affairs commentator for the independent Hungarian weekly Magyar Hang, notes some unusual features. “The hard core of Fidesz’s base, its very centre, was shocked – and those people will be even more shocked if it is confirmed that Bishop Zoltan Balog pushed for the pardon,” Reichert says.

The uncertainty hovering around that allegation means that the story has not died conveniently with Novak’s resignation. “This is not over yet, it will wreak havoc,” he adds.

Yet Reichert also thinks that, over the longer term, the scandal won’t result in a significant course adjustment in the government’s approach. “I think Fidesz’s family propaganda will be pushed unchanged, and even harder,” he predicts.

That, he maintains, is because “the whole Fidesz project, including Viktor Orban himself, is now viewed by its supporters in a religious register: many people simply believe in him [Orban], he is their god”.

EPF’s Datta, who has done extensive work tracking Fidesz’s overseas network building, has a different view, seeing Fidesz’s international branding now as far more compromised in the eyes of its target audience.

He says the fall from grace of Novak, together with former justice minister Judit Varga, who countersigned the presidential pardon and was expected to lead the Fidesz list for the European Parliament elections in June, “is a definite blow to Fidesz’s brand”.

“This recent scandal reveals how Orban’s morality agenda is just a fig leaf meant to legitimise democratic backsliding and authoritarianism,” Datta continues.

This view, however, is contested by Bonny, who is far more cautious about the international implications. “Fidesz’s injection of anti-LGBTIQ+ hate speech into the mainstream of international politics will now certainly be looked at sceptically by others,” he admits.

Yet he doubts it will cause lasting damage to existing partner relationships. “Many actors in the international ultra-conservative world don’t actually have a lot of principles,” he says. “So, Fidesz will still have access to the relevant networks.”

[thistle-in-the-storm]

Thought Dump: Pride

Even though I have free speech, It’s still hard to stay this because I know I'll be hated for it by the group who claim to be all about love and inclusivity. Ironic, really. anyways. 

When I was growing up, pride was always called one of the deadly sins, and we were taught to not be Prideful - and rather be humble instead. I have always believed that the more pride you have, the farther you will eventually fall. Just look at most politicians. nevertheless, I struggle with staying humble, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I like recognition; that doesn’t mean it’s always good. 

However with this being June: Pride month, I have come to the realization that more and more people are finally realizing the total encompassing effect of pride and what it leads to. It’s not a real representation of love and inclusivity, because unless I agree 100% with the LGBTQIA group, then anything I say will be called bigotry and hatred. 

As a talking head on the internet, that’s fine. I really don’t care that much about how much I hurt someone’s feelings with my opinion; even so, I don’t endorse hatred, and I don’t endorse cruelty, so nothing of the sort will be tolerated. I do, however, endorse telling the truth. 

After all it was Aristotle who said, “It is the mark of the educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” 

As someone who has been on both sides of the debate, I am biased. I will own that. I’m a Christian who believes Jesus is the living God, and at the same time consider myself a semi-asexual woman. Does that change my view of the truth of the matter? No. It’s like if someone had broccoli in their teeth and no one ever told them... I'm literally just telling you about the metaphorical broccoli. whether or not you choose to stick your finger in there and make a change is up to you. 

As major companies like Budweiser and Target and the Dodgers receive backlash from their consumers for their growing endorsement of Trans creators, self proclaimed/never mind not actually satanist graphic designers, and groups that openly mock the catholic church and religion as a whole, my love for the communities I used to flock towards has fundamentally been upheaved. They are not loving. The companies want the money, so they buy into the game and promote LGBT groups for the month of june, and boom. LGBT groups get more recognition; more pride; more money. 

Meanwhile, the nation struggles to support it’s own veterans who have fought and died for the ability for LGBT groups to be able to openly and freely do anything. It’s a bit of a hypocrisy to claim yourself the victim if you never stop shouting it, even after changes are made to better the situation. 

Now. I know, people are angry already, and I understand. “But the church has hated on gays for years, why shouldn’t we take the piss on them?!” 

Growing up in church, I have never heard anything about hating the LGBT community. Ever. I have never seen them turned away at the door, and I have only ever seen them leave on their own. You want to know why? Because we told them the honest truth: the bible that Christians believe in, does not endorse the action of intercourse or romance between those of the same sex. It doesn’t say you can’t be gay, but it says that if you are gay, you can’t act on it. That’s what it says. It’s not turning you away if you aren’t straight; people leave on their own. 

Going back to the Aristotle quote: I can entertain the thought of those who are angry with me. I can see how they would be upset by my position, and call me names and say I'm being hateful. They believe in inclusion and inclusiveness. It’s self love and found families all around: we exist to better each other, and I can live my truth by being who I really am. However, as someone who has believed everything I've just said and slowly come to change my mind, I cannot accept it. There is only one truth, not mine or yours - those are perspectives. And the truth is, Pride is a deadly game to play with your psyche; the more you involve yourself with pride and allow it to settle into your heart, your heart will become hateful within itself. 

And thus we see hate groups outwardly mocking the Catholic and Christian and Jewish faiths at baseball games. We see hundreds of families worriedly pulling their children from public school as public teachers take it upon themselves without parental permission or consideration - to try and tell children who are too young to consent or understand - about same sex relations while having them forcibly celebrate pride month. We have church groups turning into shootings. We have billion dollar beer and clothing companies scrambling to balance their audience with the attempt to be “progressive” and losing on both sides. We have the symbol of the rainbow - a biblical symbol of Gods love and faithfulness - being stolen and turned into a symbol of being a proud LGBTQIA, anti-God. We have hate disguised as love, while true love and acceptance is ignored because it offends too many people. 

I know this post is long. And I know this post will make people upset. I claim free speech... and if this gets taken down, then I’ll at least know someone saw it. 

[nysocboy]

Gemstones Episode 1.8 Review: Kelvin's testicles, Jesse's butt, and ancient Philistine penises

In the last episode, Scotty kidnapped Gideon and Jesse, forced them to open the church vault, and stole the Easter offering money, incidentally confessing that he had been in love with Gideon.  Judy and BJ had a breakup scene, but Kelvin and Keefe barely appeared.  In Episode 1.8,, their romance is centric. 

An Old Man's Dick:  It's still Easter evening.  After dropping off Judy at her house, Baby Billy asks Tiffany "Who wants to suck an old man's dick?" She goes down on him while they are driving down dark country roads near the estate.  Suddenly Scotty, driving away with the money he stole, runs a stop sign and crashes into their car!   They are unharmed, but Scotty is near death (Tiffany finishes the job by accidentally shooting him).  Then they steal the money.  An interesting call-back here: earlier Scotty implies that he forced Gideon into oral sex, and he dies while interrupting consensual oral sex, an ironic punishment of the sort you would see in 1950s horror comics. 

Top five young ministers:  Gideon admits to being Scotty's partner in the offering-theft plan, and is rejected by Eli and Amber.  But he doesn't mention his part in the blackmail plan!  We cut to Jesse telling his siblings that they are in the clear. But how do they know he won't tell later, and implicate them in the assault?   Worried that he'll be arrested, Kelvin is having anxiety attacks and "sharp shit pains in my stomach" (hemorrhoids?).   Even if he wasn't convicted, the scandal would destroy his career.   "I was in the Top Five Young Ministers to watch last year -- I got a reputation -- a following."  Wait -- if he's so famous, why is his whole plot arc about proving his worth?

Denim brings lunch:  We cut to scenes where Baby Billy and Tiffany leave town with the offering money, Eli worries that the whole enterprise is corrupt, and Jesse apologizes to Gideon for pushing him away and starting the whole mess. Eli admits, for the only time in the series, that the church's finances are not entirely above-board.

 Next, Judy tries to mend her relationship with BJ by bringing him lunch at the optometrist office.  Whoops, his coworker Denim already picked up lunch.  "So you're having sex with BJ?"  No, she's a lesbian -- she has a wife.  This does not convince Judy, who calls her: "One of those benevolent lesbians, out to meet a hot guy, make friends with him, so you can sample-suck some clean dick."  BJ's nonchalance about LGBT people, plus Judy's sort-of nonchalance, will become important later.

He refuses to take Judy back, so she storms into the parking lot and starts destroying cars, finally getting arrested.

Hemorrhoids and Testicular Tumors: Keefe is swimming while Kelvin tries not to look at the body that is giving him so many unwelcome desires.   He wants to know how he can rid the world of darkness, when he's surrounded by it: his mother died, Eli was assaulted, the church was robbed.  He concludes that God is punishing the family for "not being who we say we are."  But Kelvin had nothing to do with those things. How does "not being who we say we are" apply to him?

"Don't you think God is being a little harsh?" Keefe asks.  We all wear masks; we hide things even from ourselves.  

Kelvin laugh/cries and says "I think we're getting off easy...when the Philistines stole the Ark of the Covenant, God punished them with hemorhhoids and testicle tumors."  

He's referring to an obscure story in 1 Samuel 4-5, where the Philistine thieves were punished with opalim. The King James Bible translates the Hebrew word as "emeroids" (now "hemorrhoids") and the NIV as "tumors."  An article in Biblical Archaeology Review points out the importance of penises in Philistine art, and suggests"flaccid penises."   No one mentions testicles; apparently Kelvin invented it, to correspond to the glimpse of Keefe's testicle that began his recognition of his homoerotic desire.

Next: "You should go, Keefe."  Keefe doesn't understand: "You want me to make a store run?"  Kelvin becomes angrier and angrier: "Go.  Leave.  Get out. I am no longer fit to lead you!" 

Kelvin scratches his butt as he says this.  Apparently he has hemorrhoids, and thinks that God is punishing him -- an ironic punishment for having anal sex? Will testicular tumors come next? 

Keefe disagrees: "There's no one more worthy than you."

 "Get the fuck out of here! Now! Do I need to call security, motherfucker?"  This is shockingly aggressive.

Keefe wades away, holding his swimsuit like he held his shirt during the mushroom head scene.  The intimacy he enjoyed that night has been revoked.  Kelvin falls into the pool and screams and cries.

Why does Kelvin send Keefe away?  If he's no longer qualified to be a spiritual leader due to the assault of the blackmailers, they could certainly continue to live together.  It must have something to do with the "hemorrhoids and testicular tumors," the intimacy they shared, or even homoerotic desire itself.  Kelvin believes that it is evil, demonic, that Keefe is a serpent who tempted him.  I don't care much for this association between LGBT identities and sin, but the show has been careful to establish that it's in Kelvin's head, not a general theme, structurally or in-universe.  

Jesse's Butt: Jesse invites his crew and their wives to "movie night," but the movie is actually the video of their sex-and-drugs party. He has decided to come clean: "These flawed men and myself have participated in some illicit, sinful activities."  Is this a callback to Kelvin's belief that he has participated in "illicit, sinful activities" with Keefe?

No one wants to see the video except Mandy, Chad's wife. Jesse advises that she might not want to because it features "Chad's gray testicle." Another testicle reference?  Is seeing that, like, the belly of the beast?   But they all go to the screening room, even Chad's underage kids (um...that's illegal).  

As they watch, the wives storm out in anger and disgust. Amber starts throwing things at Jesse, yelling that he drove Gideon away and destroyed the family.  Then she grabs an assault rifle and shoots him (with buckshot) in the butt, a symbolic anal rape. 

We cut to shots of Baby Billy and Tiffany rolling around in their loot,  Eli using his influence to get Judy out of jail, Keefe driving away crying, Scotty's van being dredged up, and Jesse yelling "She got me in my meat! She broke my butthole!" The background song is "Oh, Lord," by Geordi:

Oh Lord, what's wrong with me.  I can't seem to be what I wanna be

And it's not for the sake of tryin'

I tried so hard, God know, and felt like dyin'

And if you've been watchin',  you woulda seen me cryin'

So, O Lord, won't you give me your hand?

The siblings and their partners have broken up.  Gideon is gone.  This is the low point of their lives, and there's just one episode left for things to get better. 

Next: Episode 1.9 Review: Jesse is racist, Judy is a rapist, and Kelvin is the Devil

[toffyrats]

i hate narcissistic christians.

the kinda christains that take advantage of literal CHILDREN and tell them about the horrors of hell so that they’ll get scared and convert

the kinda christians that read “love your neighbor as yourself” and “god so loved the world” and then proceed to treat anyone not a christian like the scum of the earth

the kinda christians that make anything they don’t support seem like the villian in the story and don’t tell their kids about actual world problems (i didn’t learn climate change was an actual issue until a few years ago.)

the kinda christians that don’t give their kids a choice. if they’re anything other than conservative, pro-life, straight, and fully christian, they’ll say things like “its just a phase” or “they’ve fallen away from god”.

show respect to god’s earth my ASS because none of you fucking do that. your kids get scared of you and think they have to hide from you because they can’t tell you their opinions without getting in trouble.

THERE ARE FUCKING FLOWERS IN ANTARCTICA. you could tell a CHILD that and they’d know that’s not good.

so you’d tell your child about HELL but not human trafficking? how about women’s rights?? climate change? eating the rich? racism? the suicide rate of teens in 2023? THERE ARE WORSE PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD THAN THE LGBT COMMUNITY THAT IS DOING NOTHING TO YOU

but no, you’re not going to tell the newest generation any of that because it’s too radical. “history repeats itself” yeah. maybe you shoukd WARN THEM SO IT DOESNT. teach them helpful history, not just what’s in the bible.

my own fucking mother has told me women don’t deserve rights and that men have always and will always rule the world. she said women shouldn’t work, vote, anything that we’ve fought for. she’s lied to me as a child to make the left seem absolutely ridiculous. i’ve gotten grounded for genderbending a character. i’m scared to show my family any of my art now.

and then you’ll go and blame your kids opinions on social media. YEAH. social media tought me the things you wouldn’t.

you guys seriously need to grow tf up. the world is falling apart and all you fucking care about is the rapture. i still barely know how the american government WORKS and i’m SEVENTEEN. please just. be helpful for once

[papirouge]

My faith based opinions that would have be arrested by chronically online christian bloggers are that you can be feminist and be a christian, that Christ wanted women to follow him and women have always worked outside of the home and it wasn’t unbiblical. That being a pro life feminist means that we ensure the safety of women and children. That also, if your “godly” husband thinks that you dying in childbirth or from any complications in your pregnancy is something he is ok with - you need to leave him. He is demonically possessed. Demonic possession isn’t always like in the movies, you have to listen and trust god when he is guiding you and telling you to be safe ie, our gift of fear. Also christian women need to stop consuming the content from this new wave of neo trad girls when all do is say they’re anti feminists and have a mostly male audience. It’s not spiritually enriching or productive. Our faith is not a trend. It used to be edgy “anti sjw atheists” making this content, now it’s “new age traditional conservatives” using our faith as an aesthetic. It’s false and it will change again to something else.

I think I’m just talking from experience because my little sister is consuming this type of content. She changed from the ‘anti feminist anti sjw atheist’ to a ‘crystal healing reiki student using astrology and essential oils for any injury’ to finally, the ‘anti women’s rights trad wife’ despite not even having a boyfriend. I’m engaged but I’ve gotten a lot of hurtful things told to me by for wearing pants and having a job. I really hope one day she sees that all these people she watches and follows online are either grifting for money or so chronically online that they’re mentally ill and aren’t participating in society. But having a relationship with God is eternal, it will never change because he will never change.

Yeah I never understood why Christians where so defensive against "Christian feminist" but had no issue with "Christian nationalists". I mean if you think feminism has no basis on the Bible because women have to be submissive, so does nationalism because we Christians are supposed to claim only one nation that is the kingdom of God. Same for the Christian conservatives who will mock queer/LGBT Christians over the fact that homosexuality is a sin and them making a whole personality/pride around their identity, when their are themselves building their entire personality around hating the self and entertaining a whole load of sin (violence, constantly cussing people, picking fights, etc.)

There was an AITA with a woman asking if she was the asshole for shutting down her husband to have a delivery at home and without painkillers just bc his mom & sisters did it. He argued it was the only for them to "respect her" I-

Maybe it's just me but I don't consider those trad pickme as actually Christian?? like to me, they are comedians larping as Christians. They are the Christianese washed version of the girl boss. There's nothing "soft Christian girl uwu" in putting out whole videos every day. That stuff is A LOT of work and logistics. What they won't tell you is that they also have a team (editing, copywriting, social media managers, etc) which doesn't fit with the "I don't want to join the workd force and stay at home all day uwu" narrative. Just bc you're not in an office doesn't mean you're not working nor help the corporate world running - especially by hiring people. As someone who's doing vlog on the low, unless filming /editing it all day, it's impossible to regularly update video (~weekly basis) without having a team. And since those women braf about taking care of their house and child this is unlikely they are in fact filming & editing all their videos by themselves.

IDK most of those girls come off as highkey deceptive, bored and just want to flex their lavish lifestyle. In a society when accesss to work is a privilege, not having to even work seems like a luxury. Those chicks are capitalizing off of it.

That being said, I love the irony of those "anti female rights" girls. They've been to school (isn't there a middle aged trad guru who tells girl to not pursue university when she herself has a PhD? 💀), most likely own a bank account, opened their social account without asking for any male permission, wear make up..... but they will swear up and down that females rights and feminism is pointless.... Yeaaah.

I'm 100% convinced most of the girls looking up this content will grow out of this phase though. That's why I'm not too bothered by that. This trend is just the natural consequences of the millenial #girlboss thing - the girls just want to rest for a while lol You can be that in ~10 years, the pendulum will come back in, and a whole new generation of girls who had witnessed the fall from grace of these trad redpill pickme (divorced, single mother, DV, etc.) will revive the girlboss thing as a defiance to the system responsible of that situation ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯