#its not christianity school

[sethdomain]

if i were a parent im not sending my kid to a religious boarding school that they have to live in for years lol

[truth-is-relative]

I feel like Shirley Bennet is definitely the kind of religious person who remains vaguely homophobic on the stance of holier than thou godliness but once she knows someone who is gay is like- "oh. Oh dear. The gays are NOT reincarnations of Satan. Turns out. They're actually quite nice. Hm" and then slowly transitions into a quiet but firm ally.

[realbeefman]

i know chase obviously wins the religious trauma competition but can we please talk about how foreman was not only raised by a deeply religious father, but was most likely raised BAPTIST. no wonder he’s so repressed. the baptist experience is like. you’re in church every sunday listening to a man scream about how love is something that should hurt. you believe in a good, loving god - but to believe, you have to accept that true love is painful. that to be a good person, you must suffer. to love is to endure it, to work mercilessly. you’re not worthy of the love of The Almighty, and you never will be, and that sense of unworthiness is fundamental to having faith. when you sin, you don’t just hurt Him, you hurt everyone around you. you make the world worse because you have dared commit the sin of existence — to be human is to be sinful. to be loved is to feel unworthy and pathetic and hopeless. like YEAH no wonder foreman self isolates and is emotionally closed off. he was taught from BIRTH that he is fundamentally unworthy of love, and that in accepting love, he is also accepting that he truly is worthless.

[riddle-me-grits]

Movies I Wish Existed | The Secret History (1993)

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”

[queenlucythevaliant]

If you don't mind me asking, how would you like

to see Proverbs 31 used? The part that always bugs me about how it's used is how the churches I've attended completely ignore the part where the woman described is working and trading outside the home. They try and use it as "you should stay home and raise kids" defense.

Mostly, I'd just like to see it used less?

In my experience, there's an undercurrent to the way that this passage gets used that's like, "...and this is the part of the Bible for women!" This really gets under my skin because it just isn't true at all. The WHOLE Bible is for women and the whole Bible is for men. I don't like the insinuation that women should keep returning again and again to this one passage when there's the entire Bible right there to study. Romans is ours too! And Genesis! Isaiah! 2 Timothy! Joel! Revelation!

Biblical womanhood (whatever we mean by that) must begin with women being well-versed in the whole Bible, and that can't happen if Proverbs 31 is treated like a banner chapter for so much of women's min. Proverbs 30 is actually the one part of Proverbs that really moves me (specifically "Feed me with the food that is needful for me...") and I've never gotten to study it in a formal context! Meanwhile, I've sat through seminars and studies and read books and listened to podcasts giving me Proverbial 31 and telling me, "Here ya go," like it's Necessary and Sufficient for Biblical Womanhood. And these two chapters are right next to each other!

Granted, I'm not a guy, but I don't see men's ministry pulling a few specific bits of Scripture and saying, "These are the Men's Chapters." There's just a presumption that the whole of Scripture is relevant to men.

In fact, if you really want to get into it, Proverbs 31 is actually directed more at men than women, saying, "this is the kind of woman you should marry." If we took half the Proverbs 31 talks directed at women and gave them to men, I think that would be a big improvement.

(I know I'm being somewhat hyperbolic here in places. I've been sitting on this ask for a little while knowing that it was basically unavoidable trying to refine my answer and like. Sorry. I am Frustrated and this is what you get from me.)

[box-dwelling]

As someone who went to Germany and spent like 70% of the time in churches, Von karma sibling growing up Christian head canons is so fucking personal to me

[luvelii]

Dungeon meshi has wonderful and thought out world building but the inherent creator bias still shows through sometimes in small funny ways

[angelofviscera]

sooooo sad at all the years of my life I lost due to internalised racism like I went from being a pitied exotic creature to a fetish before I even entered high school and looking back at it all now it's just so!! fucked up!! and I wish I grew up with people who were just. kinder to me

[davidtennantpussytulpa]

happy pride to everyone but especially 10 year old me who made all the other 6th graders at my birthday party watch rocky horror with my since i was so excited my parents got it for me

[james-silenthill]

People that refuse the concept that things might be culturally christian are chuckleheads

[izayoichan]

Hearing a knock on the door, they saw River and Lucas stand there with a tray filled with cookies and some nice lemonade for them to drink.

Lucas: Last of summer treats, but to be eaten outside, or I think you would end up having competition on the cookies. Melisan: And the lemonade, I think I can mention a few here who would try.

A small shuffle of pets later, all the kids now sat outside, enjoying homemade cookies that Liam had baked earlier, and lemonade that they knew came from Fannar and Arlo after River’s last visit. They all knew that this was Liam’s last year in school, but unlike the rest of them, he seemed to have no real career plan, apart from of course what he had always said his own cafe.

Emil had made Rylan and Ye-Min keep up with their studies, but they were both more homeschooled now, as their skating took up more and more time. That way, they could plan between the many training hours and still do well. About a month after school started, there was only one thing on everyone's mind, the nationals.

Tyvan: You're winning this year, I’m sure of it. Rylan: We shall see, Odette always said it is not good to think that. Tyvan: For me, it's fine, for you. I guess not. -they chuckle- I never imagined this was what our adventure into the ice rink would lead to back then. Rylan: Me neither.

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[soldier-poet-king]

I need to learn to meditate

I have to stop being externally dependent on moods and events for peace. I need to learn to quiet my thoughts without external aids. I need to be able to calm myself. I want desperately to be able to just sit and do that. It would be good for me in so many ways

Everything is getting worse and traditional prayer is hard and mostly sends me spiralling into panic attacks or trauma induced nausea

Send me your fave books/lectures/resources/etc on meditation. Esp for big dumb idiots who don't know how to do anything.

[theragamuffininitiative]

😅

[faunandfloraas]

looking at twt and seeing a tweet talk about a girl group and the way the post was worded i was thinking these girls had committed an atrocity, cut someones heart of on the hanteo red carpet or something, like the wording was just so serious and disgusted and then I look and ? they danced in a church for a music video. I'm meant to be offended by this?

[donghuamuqing]

As she told me, son:

[itsadragonaesthetic]

On the topic of the bible, I have one (1) christian friend on facebook who will post pictures of a recent accident they were in and be like "god is good <3" or whatever and they once shared a post like "this year I'm gonna get closer to god <3" with some aesthetic pictures and little lists on how to get closer to god and it was all like "study the bible" and "join church groups" and "interact with more pastor/christian media" and pictures of people taking notes from the bible on how to be a good, proper woman. Like bro you realize that's indoctrination right? You realize thats you isolating yourself from other life experiences in order to see it from a single, catered lense from a religion with a habit of brainwashing people into abandoning their cultures. If you wanna get closer to god, brew some good coffee or tea or go on a hike idk foster some kittens. The bible is cool and all and pastors aren't always weird assholes but I just don't think that's how you get closer to god. Reject modernity of just reading the bible and embrace the tradition of a humble pilgrimage.