#biblical literalism

[titleknown]

I feel like it says something that American fundie Christians constantly brag about their strict biblical literalism and how they don't "pick and choose" from their holy book

And yet, when you look into the origins of their beliefs 9 times out of 10 it turns out it's based on some very specific interpretation of scripture by some insane person from the 1800s reading the bible wrong.

And said insane person also said shit like "Shove a barbed electrum rod up your urethra to cure tuberculosis!" or something equally batshit.

#quackery #history #religion #christianity #american christianity #biblical literalism #the bible #theology #the great awakening #silly

[tonechkag]

Hearing the story of Abraham & Issac really fucked me up as a kid. The actions of the adults around me made it clear that they'd kill me if God told them to.

#bUt wHY wOnT yOu cOmE tO cHuRcH anYmOre #biblical literalism #sola scriptura #ex christian #religious traumaposting

[cavegirlpoems]

OK so I've been thinking about that whole biblical literalism, fundamentalist, 'the bible is exactly literally absolutely true' mindset in relation to christian faith. Trying to concisely express my issues with it. I think this sums it up. The real question for these people is: "What if you were presented with conclusive, undeniable proof that something in the bible was not factually true." Like, say, the bible states the distance between two locations, and you can go and measure it, and they're a different distance apart. "If you saw that proof, would you still be Christian?" There are, like, four responses to this. Let me sum them up quickly. "Yes, I would." Cool. Then you don't need the bible to be literally true to have faith, do you? Come and join us over here where we can discuss things like metaphor and symbolic language, and also believe in useful things like carbon dating. This is the Normal Person response, where faith means actual faith. "No, I wouldn't." A ballsy and unexpected response, but okay. What you have there isn't *faith*, it's just a collection of facts you happen to believe are true. If your belief in your religion can be undone by going and looking at the physical world, you suck at faith. Go read keirkegaarde and come back to us. "I don't know, I'd need to think about it." Cool. Then if you've not already sat and thought about it, the idea doesn't matter to you, does it? Come and join us in camp 1, where metaphors exist.

"I would simply choose not to believe the evidence before my eyes." Oh Dear. You have rendered yourself largely incapable of logic and reasoning. Faith doesn't exist in a vacuum, and we're called on to go out into the world and act on it. If you're going to reject dealing with the external world, then your religion is at best useless, at worst dangerous. See, unlike the previous three responses, this is a dangerous position to hold. Once you can't be reasoned with by external sources, you're at serious risk of going all-the-way wrong. Rejecting the evidence of your eyes and ears is how the devil keeps you in his grip, frankly.

So yeah. This isn't gonna convince that sort of person. But I think it sums up my thoughts on the matter, and why I consider the bible-only fundie position to be basically incoherent and largely incompatible with actual religious faith. (also, frankly, the bible is a *more useful* text when you can approach it through the lens of metaphorical language. When you consider the stuff in it to be poetic or symbolic, then your interpretations can be far more nuanced and you can get more from it, compared to treating it as a sort of encyclopedia.)

#christianity #faith #theology #biblical literalism #fundamentalism

[divinum-pacis]

#religion #christianity #bible #biblical studies #biblical literalism #homophobia #racism #article #divinum-pacis

[fierysword]

#evangelicals are wrong #biblical literalism

[paulbraterman]

Reading Darwin causes mass shootings. Mike Johnson says so. I have the transcript

By now you will know that the new Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson (Louisiana 4th District) was among those who voted against accepting the results of the 2020 Presidential election. You may also know that he is opposed to the concept of same sex marriage, which in some way he regards as undermining individual religious freedom, and wants to pass a law making abortion…

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#Abortion #Ark Encounter #Biblical literalism #Darwin #Declaration of Independence #Feminism #Kingdom of God #Mass shootings #Mike Johnson #Shreveport Christian Center

[expfcultragreen]

Pro trans jesus, you heard it here. Too bad about the misogyny ooooo

But anyway youve read it now, this part of the old less-edited bible, and you know how important THE BIBLE is. Thats scripture, i just did like le christ said, how many ~good ~Christian ~women can say theyll enter heaven with me

#trans stuff #the christ ppl #biblical literalism #biblical scripture

[fangirls-just-want-to-have-fun]

this photo is the single most important thing in the world to me rn

#Leah sava Jeffries you will always be famous #girl literally dropped THE best pictures of the trio like it was NOTHING #THE PERCABETH IS PERCABETHING #literally #biblically accurate percabeth #season one is done so it was so over for a second 😭 #but we are SO BACK #Disney that season 2 announcement better be on the way 🔫 #walker scobell #percy jackson #percy jackson series #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #leah sava jeffries #annabeth chase #percabeth

[midnightfrappe]

you guys can’t deny it

#fnaf #fnaf security breach #fnaf sundrop #fnaf sunny #Fnaf dca #dca fandom #daycare attendant #fnaf sun #security breach #fnaf sb #my art #sundrop #meme #shitpost #literally the first time i draw him biblically accurate #and the fanart version was made like in 1 minute #this is no hate btw #both are valid #and both are great

[mcmuppet]

i'm so unwell its not even funny

LANDO???? SHIRTLESS??????? TAN??? ON AUX PLAYING OLD MAROON 5???????

he's literally the man of my dreams i need him

credits to @/norrislando_fans on insta

#i need him BIBLICALLY #this man #i literally cried over this video #i truly don't know how to process this #ooooooof #🥵🥵🥵 #summer vaca did him well honestly idec that we saw like none of it #i don't think i would've survived getting daily content from summer lando #lando norris #mclaren

[socialist-microwave-laser]

jews: hey so this word is so important that historically it was only ever said once a year on the holiest day of the year and only by one guy. this tradition stopped after the fall of the second temple and everybody has forgotten how to pronounce it, and it's been deemed unpronounceable. now, we use a word to replace it, but you're not allowed to say it outside of prayer or reading torah aloud. any printed material that has it written must be buried in a graveyard like a human, it can't simply be thrown out

christians: *treat the word like a fucking trivia question, have songs that just mispronounce say it on repeat for the entire chorus, make shitty ugly ass earrings with the word written on it, include the word in fun translation exercises like it's just like any other word*

#and christians wonder why i'm so uncomfortable around them #also that one guy before the fall of the second temple that said it did so as a part of a ritual that was deemed so dangerous people would #literally tie a string around him in case he died so they could pull him out without going in after him #anyway my biblical hebrew class starts tomorrow and the textbook was made by a bunch of evangelicals and it has the shem hashem and so many #other words that make me physically uncomfortable to have just sitting in a textbook #jumblr #christian antisemitism #antisemitism tw #judaism #jewish history #jewish culture

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Biblically accurate Leonardo! Real red eared sliders look like they have a little cat smile and stick their noses straight up in the air, it’s so cute! They are also very square looking, with boxy little heads and shells. I think you can tell the ball python inspiration in his head shape here tho, I’ve drawn a lot more snakes than turtles in my time lol

Real turtles’ shoulders are actually fused to a shoulder girdle formed by their shoulder blades and collarbone within their shells, so their arms kinda stick out elbows up and aren’t super flexible. Being mutated, the brothers would have flexible shoulders and independent bones in there, but I think they’d still have the thinner skin and soft scales around their necks, shoulders, and thighs that allows them to tuck into their shells and on their outer arms and calves I think they’d have much thicker scales to protect those soft parts.

They probably can’t fully fit into their shells due to their mutation, but I think the idea of them still being able to pull their heads in like a seal is quite funny.

Imagine swinging a sword at him and his head just goes “swoop!”, and then all there is is his nose poking out and he’s glaring at you all huddled in his shoulders. If I was a Foot Soldier I’d incapacitate myself just from laughing, no fighting needed.

[Raphael] [Donatello] [Michelangelo] [Extended Family]

#rottmnt leo #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #rise leo #biblically accurate turtles #it’s so hard to draw him in a cool pose #cause hes literally just a turtle and he looks ridiculous #lol dork

[sashayed]

time for me to review The Whole Bible. ready? ok. to be honest my favorite part of the gospels is Mark 8.22-26, when Jesus spits in some nice blind man's eyeballs and accidentally gives him cosmic consciousness. guy's just like "may i have a teaspoon of visual response to stimulus" and jesus is like "oh sure" and gives him God Vision. fuckin...ayahuasca sight that perceives the interconnectedness of all life. "oh is that not normal? does everyone not have that? nuts. ok try these eyes. are those more regular? great. maybe lie down by yourself for a while and please don't mention this to anyone"

#YES i've read like 8 fundamental world religious texts this year NO i don't think it's made me more normal either!! #fyi as far as i can tell literally no scholarly commentary on this passage supports my reading of it. #nobody agrees with me about the tree eyes. #but on the other hand if u have come to Sashayed Dot Tumblr Dot Gov for biblical scholarship whose fault is that. not mine. #bible cw #jesus (slapping a fig tree across the face): this is just Some Guy. and hes fucking rude

[apollolovescheesecak]

ignore

#comic #bugsnax #man i’m so hungry #how hungry meme #strabby #idk why i made this #i was literally in the middle of making another comic and thought of this monstrosity #biblically accurate strabby #elizabert megafig #lizbert

[penofwildfire]

Y'all will never understand just how FERAL my queer exmo ass is about Garmadon. Like oh he was turned to darkness over the course of thousands of years? Because of a SNAKE in a GARDEN??? Oh and he's got a "good" brother who's actually not all that great but he's doing his best to fit this impossible role that their father imposed on the both of them???? Oh he gets sent to hell not once but TWICE, once by his brother, the other time by his own son, and both due to circumstances outside of any of their control?????? And he's brought back to life as a shell of who he used to be but really it's all he ever was because he was never allowed a childhood or a chance to grow up or change, and once he wasn't evil he had to be perfect or else he could never be redeemed so he really didn't know who he was and he's finally getting a chance to figure himself out on his own terms??? AND A CUTE CAMERAMAN BOUGHT HIM A FUCKING PLANT??????

#FUCK I love him so much 😭😭😭😭 #I will never be normal about him ever #also biblical imagery in my lego show just goes so fucking hard it's just MMMMMMMSNSJDJKAKALALLSLDJSJSJJAJAHSH #ninjago #garmadon #if it ever turns out that I'm fictionkin I know who I am lol. this. this fucker right here. literally me. #biblical imagery #survivalshipping #sensei garmadon #lord garmadon #exmo

[thechibilitwick]

i don't remebebr how to drawwwww i hate artblock

#milgram #milgram fanart #shidou kirisaki #kazui mukuhara #0507 #kazushidou #my brain is actually fried i either can’t think of ideas or i just suck at executing them #anyways i drew this cuz i made the realization that if kazui's apple symbolism also alludes to the forbidden fruit biblical myth #then would that make shidou the serpent that tempts eve. or ig kazui in this case. anyways guys 0507 can- *gunshots* #apologies about drawing the same shit over and over again i'm hyperfixated ueh #gotta remind myself to make different fanart or literally just oc art work at some point in my life #chibi's art/rkgk