#christians united by love

[christians-united-by-love]

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Hello! My name is Dakota, and I am many things. I'm Autistic, an avid fan of Warrior Cats, Pokémon, FNAF, TMNT, etc, a cat parent, a college student, genderqueer, arospec, pan, poly, and a partner to two amazing people! I'm also a Christian! I was born and raised under the Catholic faith, even baptized. I don't follow any specific branch of Christianity, and focus more on my relationship to my lord and savior Jesus Christ!

I want to find more people who can relate. I often feel torn between my sexuality/gender and my faith. I constantly see and hear things about how being queer is a sin, or that God hates people like us for simply being ourselves. I see and hear people claim you cannot be a Christian and also LGBTQ+. On the flip side, I've had people not believe when I say I'm queer and especially non-binary because I'm Christian, as if I can't love Jesus and believe in him while also expressing how I feel inside in terms of gender identity. It makes me feel like maybe Jesus doesn't love or want me, and doesn't find me pure enough to ever enter the holy kingdom of Heaven, being able to meet Him, God, and my deceased loved ones who are now angels.

However, I have learned that Jesus and God loves all of us. Jesus died for human sins, so that we are forgiven and our souls are saved, regardless of sin and imperfections. All He asks is that we believe in Him, worship Him, and try to follow His word- Love. I try my best to live my life with love in my heart and kindness in my actions, to speak the language of Christ and to love thy neighbor. While I am far from perfect, that's okay! He does not ask for perfection, He asks for our faith, our commitment, our repentance, our morality, our good intentions, our just actions, and to spread the universal language of love and kindness, aka the language of Christ that anyone from all walks of life deserves. If we try and we believe, and have good, moral intentions to do good and do right by our fellow humans, that is enough for Him to wrap you with His embrace of warmth and light. LGBT people are not an exception to this. We are made in His image! And we are beautiful, wonderful, perfectly imperfect, children of God. Jesus's saved. Whole and beloved.

This blog is meant to be a Christian oriented space, however, people from all religions are more than welcome to interact with posts or DM to say hello! All I ask is that respect and kindness are maintained, and that hateful comments or arguments aren't made- this includes homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, misogyny, racism, xenophobia, ableism, sanism, fatphobia, islamophobia, antisemitism, anti-Christian sentiment, etc.

I will not be putting "Tw: Christianity/Religion" tags on this blog, purely because 99% of the posts will be somehow related to it. It kinda comes with the territory of being a faith-based blog to begin with. Consider this the official TW for the entire blog. Please block or don't follow if this topic is particularly triggering or activating for you! I want you to feel comfortable, and your mental health comes first! No one should have religion forced onto them- it is something that people will be called to and go to if/once they are ready!

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Other Mod Notes:

-Please use xe/they/she pronouns for me!

-Please use tone tags when addressing me directly! Here is a guide to them!

[kota-corner]

New sideblog @christians-united-by-love is up and running!

[stil-lindigo]

the calamity.

a comic about being seen.

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[rabbitprayer]

No desire to convert to catholicism but the desire to kind of pretend that no schisms ever happened.

[notsoattractivearenti]

my pretty boy

[shutterandsentence]

"What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish."

-Matthew 18:12-14

Photo: Scottish Highlands, UK

[lewishamiltonstuff]

How many pics are there exactly of Toto and Mick looking super fine and judgemental, at the same time? Absolute best friends those two.

[troythecatfish]

[mountinez]

EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY - JULY 22: Lisandro Martinez, Christian Eriksen and Casemiro walk off after the pre-season friendly between Arsenal and Manchester United at MetLife Stadium. 📸 Ash Donelon

[skyenthusiast]

crumbs :) lichantony, eriksen and harry laughing, aaand.. luke’s cakes (im not ashamed, they look delicious)

(pls ignore crusty at the back, cameraman is obsessed with him)

[rabbitprayer]

I had the interesting experience on Palm Sunday of listening to the guy right behind me whisper-translate the entire service into Spanish for his visiting friend.

[notsoattractivearenti]

highlights of today’s match…

1 goal 1 assist by antony! man was 🔥🔥

[thingsifoundongeoguessr]

HOLY SHIT EVEN ME?

[hojlundaise]

“Obviously we're aware of the connection with Brandon Williams with what happened last season...”

“What, we call that a connection?”

[zevranunderstander]

i love watching youtube analyses of movies and shows and i love when the person explaining something is totally wrong about the thing theyre talking about

[arabnico]

the fact that some people’s reaction to shireen abu aqleh, a palestinian journalist who has dedicated the last 20 years of her life to her country and to her people, being murdered was to say that they “can’t ask Allah to have mercy on her soul” and that “she’s going to hell” and straight up denying her the martyr status just because she was a palestinian christian and not muslim is genuinely so violent. this woman died, got violently murdered for reporting on her country, and people still want to deny her martyrdom just because she belongs to a religious minority that is actively being ethnically cleansed in the arab world. her religion was mostly unknown to the public for most of her career too, until priests were captured praying on her coffin yesterday. and none of those people are palestinian—they’re mostly arab muslims who fail to see that the palestinian cause is not a muslim one, it is the cause of every single palestinian no matter their (ethno)religious group. narrowing down the palestinian cause to a muslim one excludes so many (ethno)religious minority groups in palestine and enables these kind of statements to rise. it’s genuinely heartbreaking and enraging to see a legendary woman who lived most of her life serving her country and her people and their cause and was killed serving her country and her people and their cause be the recipient of this kind of response just because she’s christian. this attempt to divide palestinians, whom have always been united for and with each other against the occupier regardless of anything else is so violent and frankly insulting considering palestinians have never let religious differences turn them against each other. it’s just sad.