#religious fables

[worfsbarmitzvah]

there’s such an attitude among ex-christian atheists that religions just spring up out of the void with no cultural context behind them. like ive heard people say shit like “those (((zionists))) think they own a piece of land bc their book of fairy tales told them so!!!” and they refuse to understand that no, we don’t belong there because of the torah, it’s in the torah because we belong there. because we’re from there. the torah (from a reform perspective) was written by ancient jews in and about the land that they were actively living on at the time. the torah contains instructions for agriculture because the people who lived in the land needed a way to teach their children how to care for it. it contains laws of jurisprudence because those are pretty important to have when you’re trying to run a society. same for the parts that talk about city planning. it contains our national origin story for the same reason that american schools teach kids about the boston tea party. it’s an extremely complex and fascinating text that is the furthest thing from just a “book of fairy tales”

[connorsnothereeither]

Much like Ulysses, genetically crafting creatures in the telchin lab, I too, diabolically spliced Ulysses together, using the elements of all the prime Tumblr Sexymen I could find /j

[x-heesy]

𝔏𝔲𝔡𝔴𝔦𝔨 𝔖𝔱𝔞𝔰𝔦𝔞𝔨 - 𝔄𝔩𝔢𝔤𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔬𝔣 𝔖𝔞𝔱𝔞𝔫 (𝔏𝔬𝔯𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔚𝔬𝔯𝔩𝔡), 𝔠𝔞. 1900

#classicart #classicalart #classicpainting #classicalpaintings #zeitgenössischekunst #mfpretty #aesthetic #traditionalart

𝔄 𝔓𝔢𝔯𝔣𝔢𝔠𝔱 & ℑ𝔪𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔞𝔩 𝔐𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔟𝔶 𝔚𝔞𝔯𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔡 ℭ𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔰 🎧

[aridis]

Well, a talking flower, surely it's completely harmless and will NOT boss fight me later on right?

[brandyschillace]

The Fury of Job

A new understanding of an old myth has made me feel a little better this morning about being tired and furious.

“Absent the book’s likely tacked-on epilogue, the Book of Job teaches that there is no final victory, no ultimate divine deliverance. As I think about how to respond to the concurrent cataclysms threatening the nation and the globe, I at least want to be Job—not a person with divine patience, but one who cares so much for his fellow mortals that he will spit acidic truth into the face of the Lord to the very end.”

“Maybe the moral of Job is this: If God won’t create just circumstances, then we have to. As we do, Job’s honesty—in the face of both a harsh, collapsing world and the kinds of ignorant devotion that worsen it—must be our guiding force.”

“the other lesson of Job, the implicit one: This is all we’ve got, and it has to be worth it. Crucially, Job doesn’t kill himself. He curses the day he was born, but he doesn’t bring about the day of his death. He chooses to believe that continued existence is preferable to its opposite.”

[ghost-of-hallownest]

saw ppl are posting their mothflies for the collab so here are my furballs ✌️

[flutteringfable]

traveler, remembering biblical stories from earth: you’re never gonna believe this

[bakugoawayy]

“The Day You Died”

I watched you die that day on a hill christened with skulls.

Prophecy fulfilled with another life made null.

I watched you march as the crowd swore,

An outcast… a mockery… a vine publically shorn.

As sheep led to slaughter the shepherd lies in wait,

As one caught up in eternity’s divine bait.

Watching one so Tortured and maimed,

Pain and perpetual suffering I became.

Remind me please… was it your death or mine?

Was it peace for you or all of mankind?

Was it hubris’ bliss or man’s folly?

Or grace divine leading me to a life jolly?

As you are crucified I am as well,

you are risen while I’m left to burn in hell.

Forsaken by the father on that somber hill

Utterly forsaken as I am left for nill.

See… you died once on that weekend grim,

I’ve died a million times for the sake of him.

A life unlived for a cause divine,

Death bears no sting to one drunk with wine.

A risen body numb and undead,

A cold cadaver with words left unsaid.

King of kings and lord of all,

Low of lows with nowhere else to fall.

Hands of blood where death had its toll.

A life stolen… a soul unknown.

Blood to purify yet for me a stain left crimson.

The day you died… the day you became my prison.

- A Phoenix’s Fable

[shock-micro]

so i heard you like rain world and bug fables and celeste and ultrakill and risk of rain i got nothing to add i just think that's awesome

the funny thing is i probably never would've played most of those games if it weren't for my friends begging me to and now here i am with my brain chemistry changed forever

(though if we're listing things that changed my brain chemistry i don't think i would ever feel right posting this without mentioning oneshot, hollow knight, and cassette beasts)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“Each Gospel author just makes Jesus say or do whatever they want.

They change the story as suits them and neglect to mention they did so. They craft literary artifices and symbolic narratives routinely. They frequently rewrite classical and biblical stories and just insert Jesus into them... the authors of the Gospels clearly had no interest in any actual historical data... these are thus not historians. They are mythographers; novelists; propagandists...

We have to stop thinking we can use them as historical sources.”

-- Richard Carrier

The authors of the bible openly state that the objective of their writing is to convince you to believe, not to accurately record real things that actually happened.

[apotelesmaa]

Like it’s still the funniest thing about conservative catholics who are vocally pro life but support the death penalty. it’s legitimately hysterical “All life is sacred which is why the state should kill you if you have an abortion” xtian cognitive dissonance is so fascinating I could write 100 pages about the leaps and jumps they’ll make to ignore what the Bible says specifically so that they can be bigoted. Especially when they’re having a ‘rights for me but not for thee’ moment.

[strangefable]

i think i'm coming down with something. if it's a cold, okay.

but if this is covid, i'm gonna fight god

[sixteenseveredhands]

Child's Writing Exercises and Doodles, from Egypt, c. 1000-1200 CE: this was made by a child who was practicing Hebrew, creating doodles and scribbles on the page as they worked

This writing fragment is nearly 1,000 years old, and it was made by a child who lived in Egypt during the Middle Ages. Several letters of the Hebrew alphabet are written on the page, probably as part of a writing exercise, but the child apparently got a little bored/distracted, as they also left a drawing of a camel (or possibly a person), a doodle that resembles a menorah, and an assortment of other scribbles on the page.

This is the work of a Jewish child from Fustat (Old Cairo), and it was preserved in the collection known as the Cairo Genizah Manuscripts. As the University of Cambridge Library explains:

For a thousand years, the Jewish community of Fustat placed their worn-out books and other writings in a storeroom (genizah) of the Ben Ezra Synagogue ... According to rabbinic law, once a holy book can no longer be used (because it is too old, or because its text is no longer relevant) it cannot be destroyed or casually discarded: texts containing the name of God should be buried or, if burial is not possible, placed in a genizah.

At least from the early 11th century, the Jews of Fustat ... reverently placed their old texts in the Genizah. Remarkably, however, they placed not only the expected religious works, such as Bibles, prayer books and compendia of Jewish law, but also what we would regard as secular works and everyday documents: shopping lists, marriage contracts, divorce deeds, pages from Arabic fables, works of Sufi and Shi'ite philosophy, medical books, magical amulets, business letters and accounts, and hundreds of letters: examples of practically every kind of written text produced by the Jewish communities of the Near East can now be found in the Genizah Collection, and it presents an unparalleled insight into the medieval Jewish world.

Sources & More Info:

Cambridge Digital Library: Writing Exercises with Child's Drawings

Cambridge Digital Library: More About the Cairo Genizah Manuscripts

[hill-art02]

Firapell the leopard from reynard the fox.

[triforce-of-mischief]

something tells me that atheists would not get away with posting half the amount of stuff that religious people state in full confidence. not sure how i feel about that, just... a little uncomfortable i guess

[satinoflowers]

Imagine you’re a boy who was raised in oldtown, the religious capital of the world. You follow the religion that you were brought into, a religion that watched idly as you were a child brought into prostitution. Somehow you end up in a lord’s dungeon in a city far away, and all you have are the satin robes you wear, so your captors call you satin. you keep believing in your gods, up until you’re at battle where you must fight or the world will end and maybe it’ll end for you anyways.

but then somehow, someway you make it through, alive, and see something ancient in your lord commander’s eyes. He’s fabled and infamous, he has an ancient creature at his side you didn’t know still existed and a raven calls his name like prophecy- and he’s also kind, and sees something in you that you weren’t sure you had.

you swear your oath to him in sight of the old gods.