#religious elite

[lab-trash]

Fun reminder that Kaz has broken out of toxic masculinity enough to call "action figures," dolls, to the point where he actively defends the fact that they're dolls and it's okay to like dolls even if/when you're a dude.

I just love that fact.

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", "Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty"

[houseofpunk]

MJF meta:

I'm not sure if anyone else has pointed this out but Maxwell's out of kayfabe middle name isn't Jacob, which means he purposefully chose that name for himself. As someone who is known for including bits and peices of his faith in his story and character, I wonder if he was influenced by the story from the Masoretic text of Jacob who wrestled with an angel of g-d all night until the angel blessed him.

[g00se-ars0nist]

CHRISTIAN PLEASE WE NEED YOU

[chushanye]

"my interpretation is more meaningful than yours" this "___ piece of media is objectively bad" that. yeah, well have you considered I'm having fun? 🤨 have you considered that I strive to be joyful rather than striving to prove the worth of my opinions? 🙄

[mantarobin]

thinking elite thoughts. many hypothetical good ending au stuff. many thoughts

thinking that he is probably extremely touch deprived but also hates the feeling of it. the yellow steves will grab or hold him randomly, startling him too much. thinking that he struggles to get used to the village, to wear normal clothes and eat a normal diet. thinking he'd try his hardest to work and be "useful" but his body is too damaged.

thinking that he'd probably be disgusted to wear clothes that reveal his arms, or any of his body that's not necessary. since showing your face and identity was forbidden in the dark guard. thinking he'd struggle to try and fit in normally. between the inability to adjust properly and his neverending guilt. thinking that💥

[transfemininomenon]

really fucked up that my most well conceptualized, realized, organic d&d setting ive ever thought up got like. three sessions of play in it. god i miss it wish i couldn't done more

[orchidbutch]

oh no

i think lil nas x did make me think about jesus after all????

except it's like. liberation theology god is black queer theology jesus

instead of the one everyone screaming blasphemy probably follows

[mori-sempai]

Thinking about when my sister told me I should be careful of my husbands intentions because she had a dream that when we moved to Korea that we were going to get a Korean maid and that my husband was going to cheat and have a baby with her and I had to be like ok sweetie thank you and all but do you think me, a person with no job, is going to hire someone to clean my own home while I sit there and watch them

She also thought that me moving to Korea was going to be what helped her adopt a Korean a baby and I was like I don’t know how to tell you this but you still live with our parents and you make 9 dollars an hour you’re not adopting a baby from Korea sweetie I’m so sorry

[pointless-letters]

The Ten Commandments: definitely, absolutely, totally not religious dogma. Just so we’re all clear.

[indizombie]

The elite colonial school, built by British educationists and missionaries, left a lasting legacy by serving as the pre-eminent model imitated by generations of aspirational, middle-class schools. However, the choices of the legitimating symbols underlying school authority seem to reflect a definite shift. A 2018 survey of a cross-section of Delhi schools undertaken by the educationist, Manish Jain, reported that two-thirds of the schools (both private and government) draped themselves with a “significant presence of Hindu religious and nationalist symbols combined together”. It must be remembered that the conformist structure of the Indian school is rooted in its original purpose an as assembly line for the middle-rung bureaucracy of the raj. Martial discipline and unfailing obedience desired in potential recruits (both white and brown sahibs) mirrored the ‘garrison state’ mentality of the raj.

Asim Ali, ‘Imprisoned minds’, Telegraph India

[kesarijournal]

Waqf Properties: A Blatant Betrayal of the Quran, Islam, and India

Case Against Waqf Properties in India 1. Waqf as Anti-Quranic Violation of Quranic Inheritance Laws: The Quran explicitly outlines inheritance laws in Surah An-Nisa (Chapter 4), which mandate the division of a deceased person’s estate among their heirs, including children, spouses, and other relatives. Waqf, by its very nature, contradicts these provisions. Waqf properties are often “locked” or…

[prolibytherium]

One of my all time biggest pet peeves with historical(ish) fantasy is when the writer constructs a religion with a clear bias that it's stupid and false and therefore only the Stupid People and/or commoners believe in it and all the smart/elite main characters are like, quasi-atheists or otherwise just routinely flout established religious conventions of orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy because they're Too Smart for it or etc.

It's usually an extension of assumptions that people in the past were just less intelligent than in the contemporary, just being like "I know that the sun is a star millions of miles away that the earth orbits, but this ancient religion describes it as a chariot flying through the sky" and not really bothering to learn the context and just (consciously or subconsciously) settling on 'that's a crazy thing to think and was probably believed in because they were Stupid'.

And that whole attitude pisses me off so much. People were as 'smart' 10,000 years ago as they are today. These beliefs aren't just desperate, random flailing to explain phenomena that could not directly be accounted for either, it's not like people just looked at the sun and went "Uhhh I don't know what the fuck that thing is, actually. I guess it might be a chariot or a boat or something?? Yeah let's go with that." and based entire religious practices on this. Every well-established belief system exists within broader contexts of cultural values/subjective perceptions of reality/knowledge systems/etc, and exist as part of a historical continuum of religious practices that came before. Even when not Materially Correct, they have context and internal logic, they're not always dead literal with zero levels of allegory, and they're never a result of stupidity.

[moodboardsbysarah]

what I believe about religion is that all religions except for mysticism are cults designed by the globalists to control humanity and run the war machine.

[tommyretcon]

Taking Cody Rhodes quotes out of context for Pride 😊🏳️‍🌈

[hadesoftheladies]

men and boys are increasingly anti-intellectual and this is primarily because of male supremacist culture. because men are the ultimate status quo, male supremacy can never be examined as an ideology. they are mentally coddled by privilege in every way. even in school they are not challenged to critique or question male supremacist bias. this reflects in their art, debate and writing. intellectualism encourages humanization of human issues. it requires introspection. ego makes introspection and reflection nearly impossible and society inflates the egos of boys from day 1. this is why most men can be professors or religious scholars and still remain so fucking obtuse about the basic mechanics of human evil in society. their analyses of social evil is infantile, simplistic and delusional. because they censor any damning data against the elite class of men. they will spout thought terminating cliches in order to shield themselves from the reality of male violence and how it flourishes directly due to male culture. so there is no reflection or self examination, no exposure to relevant data, which can only trap them in intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy. anti-feminists are always anti-intellectual because they must take male supremacy, violence and privilege for granted. they then spend the rest of their lives wondering at the dissonance they never seem to quell and call it an unanswerable mystery of the human condition.