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anghraine · 2 years

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kjadfk;j a family member was like... I feel like you've spent more time caring about Guild Wars than Jesus lately. Maybe I should get you a picture or statue.

me, stealth agnostic: Uh, I, uh—I feel weird about Jesus iconography, honestly.

her: Really?

me: Yes, it makes me uncomfortable.

her: Half your family is Catholic. They have all kinds of stuff like that.

me: ...I am aware.

#i don't know if i'm just overwhelmed by a certain strain of protestant religious demonstrativeness #that's very widespread in the united states #or by having a bunch of catholic relatives with kind of quirky taste in jesus imagery #or by being immersed in studying 18th-cent english lit overwhelmingly written by a kind of restrained anglican #or maybe i have some iconoclast byzantine ancestor smiling down on me lmao #but there's something about the display that makes me intensely unsettled #on top of caring more about guild wars than real world religion for the former's entire 17 years of existence. i mean lbr.#anghraine babbles #cw religion #cw christianity #ascalonian grudgeblog #anghraine's gaming #cw catholicism #agnostic blogging

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