#religion is poison

[nando161mando]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[fortheloveofgarythain]

Religion is crap and if you defend it don't mess with me. Religion is a front. People use it to be good when you should just be good without it aren't good people... Religion is bad. It's literally just a means of control. Stop, keep it to yourself unless asked. Take that shit off license plates and money. Get rid of these giant churches. Keep that shit away from my damn food too! I don't want a stupid verse on my bag of food. Stop forcing it. Just...keep...it...to...yourself...

[nirivenova]

We have spent

Centuries.

In the dark.

I don't want to go back

[aengusnatureking]

how dare you to insult Christianity and talk about things that you don't know saying that is not the religion of love when it for all people?

Know that if you continue to be an atheist you will burn in hell

How dare I speak the truth? Because of free speech I guess.

If you don't follow the religion you burn in hell... That's no free will Is "an offer you can't refuse"

I know that for many people affected by cognitive dissonance is difficult to understand how shitty religion, christianity in this case, really are but have you notice the scum?

In conclusion, you prove that christianity is a mental dictatorship and faith a mental illness.

[rattrapdadfigure]

I was baptized in the Christian church and it makes me feel unclean. Disgusting. Like it was Christianity’s attempt at exerting control over me and my body.

Do you know how sketchy it is that a mass organization is pressuring you to give up the rights to your body to a man who is in total control.

Hmm it’s almost like Christianity is a great tool for denying bodily autonomy to poc people, queer people, mentally different people, women, and children. 😃

No wonder it’s the colonizers religion. Cults are great for enslaving and abusing people

Christianity tortured me for YEARS. I was abused emotionally and physically by people I knew personally and they convinced me it was “for my own good” and Christianity nearly killed me.

If it works for you personally, cool. Don’t force it on other people. And I certainly don’t wanna hear about it🤮

[etherealsign282]

I'm writing this as a separate post to group my entire thought process before I move on from the light drama from my last "toxic religious people" post because whew... it's just mind boggling people like this exist and don't understand they're the bane of their own existence.

I am... amazed that someone can prove word by word that someone speaks the truth, but be disagreeing with them and denying it the entire time.

Psa, if you think nobody should be talking about the problems within cultures and groups and religions because anybody can be evil, in the sense that they can come from anywhere, don't call yourself an activist for anything.

It's unhelpful rhetoric to tell someone that they are starting problems for no reason because you think that since bad people come from anywhere, there's no reason to complain at all. That makes no sense. That would mean progress for anything would never be made because our voices and protests would never be heard until it's too late. That's how many issues are CURRENTLY happening, because the idea that it didn't need to be talked about until it becomes a main issue... makes it a main issue, and it's even harder to nip it in the bud after letting it grow to those proportions. The only time it shouldn't be encouraged to talk about religious problems is if it was based on racism, like antisemitism. Calling out some privileged people for weaponizing various religions to abuse people and manipulate them, is perfectly normal.

People are allowed to complain about anything bigoted or shitty upsetting them and if you're allowed to complain about them complaining, you're in an even more of a hypocritical (not to mention more useless) stance.

On top of that, if someone points out that toxic or shitty people do x y and z... don't fucking prove their point by doing those things then act like you're still innocent?

If I say, "alt religious people don't deserve to get away with being the worst versions of themselves but think they're a good person by hiding behind their religion since it isn't Christianity, and calling anybody who calls them out as 'mean'", bc I'm tired of the hypocrisy,

and you unironically start the dialogue by calling me mean... I'm shutting that down quick next time. Bc obviously your ego won't let you click things together and I'm not explaining anything to someone who can't see past their own smelly shit.

But on top of that, if you're bouncing from between saying that nobody like that exists to begin with *in "your" religion*, to saying that anyone from any religion can be bad and that someone is "fighting for no reason" when the post wasn't even hostile, directed at anybody, and just stating fact, and YOU inztead started a fight in the comments over it... you're just gaslighting at that point. You’re minimizing someone's voice because YOU don't find it important, and painting them as overreacting and starting shit after YOU started shit. You can pretend to be enlightened as much as you want but the dismissive, privileged, cruel behavior you portray speaks louder than any kind, performative words you could say about yourself in defense.

And then... using your religion to literally place passive aggressive, hostile intent on someone and freeing yourself from the binds of accountability and responsibility and looking like a bad person, by claiming that the other person (that you argued with and fought with for no reason) is being too toxic and that they need to heal and be more positive. It's literally proving the point that unhinged religious people will hide behind their religion to feel better about themselves even when they're doing terrible, no good things.

I just can't see how someone could just... not see the irony that they're the problem. That they checked off all the bullet points of what makes a toxic religious person a toxic religious person.

I basically said

Be religious person, have shit take or personality

Call someone mean for being called out

Weaponize religion in some way that makes them feel like they're not being shitty because they're "protected", and usually using it wrongly to avoid self reflection.

(In this case, by acting as though frustration and anger aren't normal feelings, whitewashing the concept of emotion to a more toxic positive "live laugh love" concept that was originally built on the premise to be racist and attack/ dismiss PoC beliefs like hoodooism and voodooism etc and paint them as evil; then deflecting the fact that they have no rebuttal because they're too ignorant for the conversation, by claiming that the other is too toxic or mean or "sad" and that they need a more "positive light. So they can pretend to be a good person because they're certainly "too positive" to keep the fight they started going, aka too afraid to cope with the consequences of their actions. After arguing and gaslighting for no reason, and pushing someone to the point of reacting negatively on purpose.)

And they... did every single one. Unironically. And yet probably think they're the victim. It's mindblowing.

This is why I hate a majority of religious people, and specifically religious people who think they're different just because they aren't a Christian, but sidestep and blame just like a Christian. This is why they needed to be called out- it makes them too uncomfortable and they lash out and reveal themselves for the hateful, unhealed, toxic, argumentative, and highly reactive people they are, whilst having an unhealthy superiority complex toward anybody who is open and honest about not being healed, being argumentative, and being reactive (bc it obviously makes them uncomfortable to see someone thriving in the truth, the rawness of their emotions and reactions, and still being right, while they struggle to be a good person despite all their toxic positivity and denial of perfectly normal emotions like anger and sadness and still ending up wrong). Maybe if someone can pinpoint and call it out, they can eventually fix it before it becomes irreparable.

The only thing is they're not adaptable, open minded, or mutable enough as a person to get that anger and negative emotion really has very little to do with those things- why do you think most abusive cis men can remain quiet while maliciously abusing and manipulating their wife, so they can call them a psycho woman afterward when they snap and start yelling? It's not calmness, and serenity. It's called a plotting, cunning, vindictive way to treat people. Its called forcing reactive abuse. It's called darvo. Whatever you want to call it, it's not because pretending to be at peace actually makes you at peace.

If demonizing negative emotions were about true calmness, they wouldn't need to react to anything anybody says or does with cunningness or passive aggressiveness to begin with. Being at peace isn't to go poke the bear, then walk away with chew marks, believing that you did nothing wrong only when you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. True peace is leaving the fucking bear alone because you don't have a need to bother it into anger to begin with, just to prove you're more reasonable.

[onenakedfarmer]

OLAF STAPLEDON Last and First Men

There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is far more difference than similarity, in respect both of the matter and the manner of our thought. For while they are confident that the cosmos is perfect, we are sure only that it is very beautiful. While they pass to their conclusion without the aid of intellect, we have used that staff every step of the way. Thus, even when in respect of conclusions we agree with your mystics rather than your plodding intellectuals, in respect of method we applaud most your intellectuals; for they scorned to deceive themselves with comfortable fantasies.

[nando161mando]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“I refuse to remain silent as religion rips through humanity like a virulent plague.

I know it's awfully rude to question and criticize this very ancient institution, but so what?”

-- Michael A. Sherlock

Better rude than complicit.

[drmonkeysetroscans]

Coincidence.

[fortheloveofgarythain]

I'm DONE with this fucked up weather. And Tennessee in general. Fuck these tornadoes! Fuck these rednecks! Fuck this place! New Zealand is going to be my home no matter how hard I have to bust my ass to get there! I am DONE! 😌💚🖤

[xxxlegodaddyxxx]

[lenbryant]

Think think think

[writingforatwistedworld]

I reread the Rook ask with a tailor player and immediately saw the potential.

What if the player was a famous tailor and designer back in their world, that loved to make outfit and jewelry for their lover ? Like imagine the player using their knowledge of Disney to make a set of clothes and jewelries inspired by their villains counterpart. Like Vil get a whole fairest Queen inspired wardrobe, that is like the most accurate thing ever coupled with the matching jewelry. (And of course some others clothes that have nothing to do with it. The boy deserve variety.)

With Vil/Malleus/Leona. Pretty please ? 😚

(I swear I smell the potential for an AU or smth like that but I promise to behave and not flood your ask with it.)

Oh yes. THE POTENTIAL! (But seriously, people who are able to make clothing are so talented! Ever tried to sew a simple shirt? That stuff more complicated than it looks like.)

Dw about flooding my requests when they are open again. Just do it. I don't mind.

Self-aware au

I do not take any responsibility for you reading this no matter which age group you are from!

WARNINGS: Yandere themes, imprisonment, possessiveness, poison, religion, obsession, kidnapping, stalking

Leona Kingscholar/Vil Schoenheit/Malleus Draconia-Darling who is a talented tailor

Usually Leona isn't someone who cares how he looks like as long as his clothing feels comfortable and doesn't get in his way

Keyword: usually

You see, that t-shirt you once made him is just so precious to him

Not that he would show that

He just might make sure that it doesn't get damaged or dirty if that can be avoided

And then you make him more clothing

His closer was never so full before you came...

Don't worry about the expenses though, he gives you always money in return

But oh dear, please save the poor soul who would damage it in any way

I can only say, all that Sand in Savanaclaw hasn't always been sand... (you catch my drift, right?)

And you might do send him signals of likin him

Under normal circumstances this would be all fine and dandy...

But we are talking here about characters that know that they are 2D ok? It's never that simple...

He will be everywhere

Following you around, watching you...

And back home you are known as “that one stranger who has made uncle Leona weird”

Be happy that they don't know that you are the Overseer

At least not yet

If someone else were to get clothing then he would make sure that they would be shredded into notingness

Only he is allowed to get them!

Just... don't stop making them. It's one of the few things which keep him in check

All those expensive brands? Now trash in his eyes

He has received clothing and jewelry from perfection themselves!

Maybe he doesn't need to use that love potion... *ahem* what?

But let's start from the beginning

One day you gave him just a small piece...

And now you are doing his entire wardrobe

He loves that one outfit which is based on the Fairest queen

Is that you telling him that he has finally reached her level??!

Like Leona, we can only wish the poor soul which damages those pieces in any pieces well

But no, Vil won't make them disappear without any trace

For that he is too haughty

He will publicly humiliate them to such an extent that they won't dare to set a foot outside of their home

And if that doesn't work... there are surely potions that can torment you to such a extent that you... Ok let's stop here

By the way, when was the last time you went out of your room and didn't sew?

Vil knows that you can't leave when he tells you that he “trusts you so much” and “needs that jacket plus the fitting earring till tomorrow”

Catching on? He will use your passion to keep you isolated

Like this he is not only the only person with whom you have contact but also the one you will always think about

If you were to say no though... once more, potion (this is getting old, isn't it?)

He will flaunt the things you make but when someone asks him where he got them they will experience such a nasty glare... Vil, this isn't good for your career...

Also, shouldn't you feel grateful that you are able to make clothing for the Vil Schoenheit?

Just don't make rings, he might misunderstand that for more than a friendly gesture

The price of Vils brand clothing? Cheap rags in comparison to what he wears on a daily basis

And then suddenly the royal tailor doesn't get any more requests from him anymore

Meanwhile, the future king of Briar Valley is screaming about presents from the Overseer

I'm not joking, screaming

Malleus doesn't just have problems with being way too obsessed (which is already bad enough in itself) but also believes that you are courting him

Something self-made with heart....

And oh, you need some red stone? Take this ruby here. Don't worry about it's worth

Yes, he promises you the world on a silver tablet every time you give him something new

And then you tailor him something which is inspired by his ancestor...

You might make him cry from happiness

Lilia is screaming, Sebek is screaming, Malleus is screaming and Silver would scream if he would be awake

But he doesn't dare to wear these on everyday occasions

Oh no

Only for special things

Like that one gathering of the Faes which ended with them bowing in front of a coat you once made for him

Be prepared to be spoiled in riches

Faes always repay their debts but this is something else for the monarch

He just wants to court you too, isn't this cute?

Oh God....

Don't give him too much in too little time

Otherwise you might find yourself in a unfamiliar tower with a spindle, sewing equipment, all kinds of diamonds and a lot of fabric woven from the most expensive material

Yes that spindle is the spindle

[embersofhope19]