#evangelical christian

[jesusinstilettos]

I’m about to save you thousands of dollars in therapy by teaching you what I learned paying thousands of dollars for therapy:

It may sound woo woo but it’s an important skill capitalism and hyper individualism have robbed us of as human beings.

Learn to process your emotions. It will improve your mental health and quality of life. Emotions serve a biological purpose, they aren’t just things that happen for no reason.

1. Pause and notice you’re having a big feeling or reaching for a distraction to maybe avoid a feeling. Notice what triggered the feeling or need for a distraction without judgement. Just note that it’s there. Don’t label it as good or bad.

2. Find it in your body. Where do you feel it? Your chest? Your head? Your stomach? Does it feel like a weight everywhere? Does it feel like you’re vibrating? Does it feel like you’re numb all over?

3. Name the feeling. Look up an emotion chart if you need to. Find the feeling that resonates the most with what you’re feeling. Is it disappointment? Heartbreak? Anxiety? Anger? Humiliation?

4. Validate the feeling. Sometimes feelings misfire or are disproportionately big, but they’re still valid. You don’t have to justify what you’re feeling, it’s just valid. Tell yourself “yeah it makes sense that you feel that right now.” Or something as simple as “I hear you.” For example: If I get really big feelings of humiliation when I lose at a game of chess, the feeling may not be necessary, but it is valid and makes sense if I grew up with parents who berated me every time I did something wrong. So I could say “Yeah I understand why we are feeling that way given how we were treated growing up. That’s valid.”

5. Do something with your body that’s not a mental distraction from the feeling. Something where you can still think. Go on a walk. Do something with your hands like art or crochet or baking. Journal. Clean a room. Figure out what works best for you.

6. Repeat, it takes practice but is a skill you can learn :)

[thelastgoodrepublican]

Credits

Special thanks to the library of the internet, sometimes still a place of beautiful, free exchange. For the archival used in this podcast, I’d like to shout out the following amazing creators:

David Harmer - Just Say No / Fox 5 New York - From the Archive / ABC 7 News Bay Area - Early Days of AIDS / MediaBurnArchive - AIDS Protests / Global Health Chronicles - ACT UP / KFYR - TV Opioid Epidemic / SuchIsLifeVideos - 1982-1992 AIDS / ABC7 NY - Rock Hudson Dies / Reagan Library - AIDS Speech / HRTVFan2 - Dr. Koop AIDS PSA / Allietats - But I’m a Cheerleader! / Movieclips - But I’m a Cheerleader! / Reagan Library - Abortion Speech / PBS - Baby Doe / SRPS Audio Archive Johannesburg - Lexington Cigarettes / Anachronistic Anarchist - John Player Cigarettes / Ferociousgumby - Do You Inhale? / Nviewz - Doctor Cigarettes / AHA - Smoking PSA / ABC News - Smoking Report  / AAPB - McNeil/Lehrer NewsHour / King of the Hill - Constipation / Hoth Iceplanet - Star Wars PSA

I’d also like to thank the following creators for their innovative music and FX:

UNIVERSFIELD / Drmseq / Paul Yudin / Fabien Roch / Synth Redneck / N Beats / Ivan Luzan / Drmseq (2) / Jekyll85 / Erioseto Hendranada / OxidVideos / Alexander Chase / Eyespotee v

 / Grand_Project / Slicebeat / Fredsylvestre66 / Joseph Sardin / Lexin_Music / Guitar_Obsession / Liecio / Muisc_For_Videos / AmarantaMusic / SoundReality / Floraphonic / Lexin_Music (2) / ShidenBeatsMusic / Silverman Sound Studios / Alex_Jauk / FooBarSounds / Voice Bosch / Tim_Kulig_Free_Music / Grand_Project

Below are the links to the data I referenced in this podcast:

Worldometers / MedicineNet / CDC

[gastonjerry]

YOUTH STS LESSON 99 CHRIST’S CALL TO SOUL-WINNING

MEMORY VERSE: “…And Jesus Said unto Simon, Fear not; From henceforth thou shalt catch men” (Luke 5:10).   TEXT: Luke 5:1-39   Soul-winning is central to the Scriptures. It is the heartbeat of God the Father, and Jesus began the work of soul-Winning at the commencement of His ministry. “From that Time Jesus began to preach, and to say, repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand” (Matthew 4:17).…

[spokanefavs]

Do Evangelicals believe in scientific evolution or do they believe every species was individually created?

Scott McIntyre says "nope!" to scientific evolution, but other Evangelicals say yes.

Read his perspective.

[dukeofankh]

I cannot express how jarring it was after being raised by a "Porn Addiction Coach" to get into a relationship with a woman and come face to face with the fact that she did actually want me to sexually desire her.

Like, in Evangelical Purity Culture, male desire was basically poison. It was a threat. It was this constant temptation that would destroy everything. And even after leaving, in the sort of queer, feminist spaces i spend most of my time in that wasn't something that pretty much anyone was spending time actively dissuading me from feeling.

But my desire is good. It's not something that I'm being accepted in spite of. It's a positive thing. It's a bonus. Not even just vanilla stuff, all the stuff I'd convinced myself were these weird terrible desires that were shameful to have.

It honestly took me over a decade to fully accept that. To stop dissociating during sex and confront that I was, in fact, being a massive perv and that was fantastic and preferable and that I could accept that into my self-image without shame or self hatred.

But it's important to do. It's important to leave relationships that don't welcome that part of you. To know that your sexuality is valuable and valid and worth owning and celebrating. Because the alternative is just...not being. Either existing as yourself and repressing the part of your identity that is sexual or allowing that sexuality to exist but turning off your self while it does.

[lmaverick123]

Jesus is too "Weak" for Americans Now

I was wondering when this was going to happen.  For real, I was.  When I saw how American Christians on the far-right were becoming more militant, more enamored with bigotry that is as American as apple pie (we spread hate so much more than we have ever spread love), and more visceral in their hatred of the LGBT, it was clear as day to me that the time would come when their Lord and Savior, Jesus…

[angelx1992]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

[Original Washington Post Article]

It's really, really important to remember that the US doesn't support Israel because it just does whatever The Jews™ tell it to. Christian Zionism is extremely powerful and worth reading up on and understanding if you want to end US support for Israel.

(PS. in these prophecies, at the end, the Jews either convert or die)

[the-rad1o-demon]

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GET KOSA TRENDING.

STOP SCROLLING NOW!

AS OF FEBRUARY 21ST, 2024, WE GOT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF DECISION OF THE KOSA BILL, WHICH WILL CAUSE MASS CENSORSHIP ROUND THE INTERNET IF PASSED. OR DOOMSDAY. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.

WE'RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN'T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON'T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.

I'M THE ONE WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM, AND I'M NOT GOING TO CURL UP AND DIE YET.

Reblog this post in every LEGAL way you can under the Tumblr guidelines with the appropriate tags. TELL AND TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW, then add the tags to see below... and more if you can think of any complying.

Visit badinternetbills.com if you want to find a way to defeat KOSA. It WILL NOT take much of your time. Reblog with any other information or sources, too-- but make sure to reblog if you can.

Reblog if you support lgbtq+ content.

Reblog if you support questioning queer youth and/or abused youth getting the information they need.

Reblog if you support Ao3 and/or other sites that wholeheartedly preserve talentedly made media.

Reblog if you're going to repost this on other sites than Tumblr and spread the word across Twitter, Tik Tok, Pinterest, or elsewhere, alongside the link to badinternetbills.com.

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Hey, everyone. So yeah, this is happening. We're still fighting this battle. And we can't give up now. We can't. We can't stand idly by while one of the most important resources that helped us all wake up, or at least start to question things, is being threatened by the government.

We can't stand idly by when kids, teens, and adults just like us still trapped inside might lose access to the resource that could help them wake up. We can't stand idly by when they might lose access to their non JW friends and family. We CAN'T stand idly by when we can do something to stop this bill from passing.

I am sick and tired of this same old song, where conservative fuckers higher up think they can oppress everyone. I am FUCKING SICK of it.

Please, reblog both this post and the original post linked above what I've written, and do what you can to stop KOSA, please. We are running out of time.

I suggest that if it is within your power to do so, that you do more than simply reblog and assume someone else will do something. DON'T assume that. Please do more than just reblogging if you are able to, because that's not really enough at this point.

Call/email representatives in the House and tell them to oppose KOSA (you may want to list different reasons depending on who you're calling, some House representatives are anti-LGBTQ+, so it may be best to tell them to oppose because it violates people's privacy, safety, and anonymity online). Print posters and put them up where legal if you can.

Sharing all this information to other social media sites (Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, the bird app) to reach more people can really help too. The wider the reach, the better.

Thank you. Now let's fucking rip that bill apart like we rip apart Watchtower magazines and eat it for fucking breakfast. (In a "we're eating it and the politicians who are sponsoring it are looking on in horror" kind of way)

[emperornorton47]

[thelastgoodrepublican]

THE LAST GOOD REPUBLICAN (ep. 4): C. Everett Koop vs. Abortion

On the final episode of The Last Good Republican, we'll listen as Koop creates the infamous Koop Report in which he steadfastly refused to lie on behalf of the Reagan administration and the pro-life movement. We'll listen to archival footage, contemporary news coverage, and Koop's own words to understand how decided to prioritize the truth over his personal faith.

This episode features an amazing history lesson from cult survivor, religious historian, and host of the Leaving Eden podcast, Sadie Carpenter.

[jesusinstilettos]

Sometimes people demand you justify being an atheist with a 200 page well-sourced thesis on biblical scholarship but one of the reasons I am not a Christian anymore is so fucking simple. It made my life worse. It made me unhealthy mentally. I’ve grown one thousand times more as a person without it. If it were really the one true wisdom from an all knowing infinite god, it would make my life better. And that’s enough proof for me. And it’s a valid reason.

[spokanefavs]

I’m an evangelical pastor. Politics drown out the truth about our views on immigrants | Opinion

Reid Kapple is pastor of Trinity Fellowship Church in Olathe and a volunteer regional immigration advocate for the National Association of Evangelicals.

[cygnetbrown]

The Elephant in the Room

The Elephant in the Room

Anyone who has followed me for a long time knows that I am a follower of Jesus Christ. However, because of what has been occurring during the Evangelical Christmas movement, I have been silent about where I stand in all of this. I have talked around it, but now I can no longer talk around that elephant in the room. I must deal with it. The Enemy is Not People According to Ephesians 6:12, “For…