#Native American Church

[nando161mando]

🚨COMMUNITY ALERT🚨 The Westboro Baptist Church is targeting Mag.Pi, the store where Laura Ann Carleton was murdered by Christian fascist Travis Ikeguchi over a Pride flag. They will be rallying at the Mag.Pi storefront as well as several other locations throughout the Lake Arrowhead community this weekend. On Saturday, they’ll be at Mag.Pi. Sunday and Monday they’ll hit multiple other spots in the community.

@anarchistmemecollective @antifainternational @radicalgraff @kropotkindersurprise

#westboro baptist church #wbc #mag.pi #laura ann carleton #christofascists #Travis Ikeguchi #lake arrowhead #made in usa #usa news #usa #united states #unitedstateofamerica #unitedsnakes #native american #america #amerikkka #amerika #christofascism #cult #occult #religion #dogma #far right #right wing extremism #right wing terrorism #right wing politics #right wing women #right wing bullshit #nazisploitation #nazis

[blended-ice]

thinking about LeoJi 💛💜

#peas n guac #so apparently it’s NOT canon that Leo’s Mexican and NATIVE American #just Mexican american #but he’s part NA to me inside the caverns of my brain #native on his dads side Mexican on his moms #but I have this entire background for him that I’ve just made up in my head and I realized that it wasn’t canon just recently #it’s real to me though 🥺 #yuri on ice #yoi #guang hong ji #leo de la iglesia #lion of the church my bb #where’s my content of ji coming to America and meeting Leo’s big ole family #fanart #id in alt text #I feel like ji has a more quiet and distant small family #so I want him to come to America to hang out with Leo and be adopted by his entire family #ok I’ll stop rambling in the tags now

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Elizabeth Weiss

Published: Jan 20, 2024

Recently, the Navajo Nation has embarked on a mission to stop flights to the moon, especially those intending to deposit human cremated remains (commonly referred to as “cremains”). The Navajo Nation regards the moon as sacred, arguing that depositing cremains—or any objects, for that matter—constitutes an act of desecration. This controversy centers around the Peregrine Mission 1, a NASA-spon.sored expedition to the moon. Two private companies, Celestis and Elysium Space, plan to use this mission to transport the cremains of individuals who opted for a lunar resting place.

Upon receiving a letter from Buu Nygren, the Navajo Nation’s President, the White House convened a meeting to hear their objections to those flight plans. Although the White House correctly concluded that the government did not have the authority to stop the flight or hinder the private companies’ plans, one may wonder why these religious concerns of the Navajo Nation were ever seriously considered in the first place. Typically, the U.S. government refrains from interfering in scenarios where religious beliefs are at stake, as evidenced by the longstanding conflict between fundamentalist Christian creationists and the teaching of evolution in schools.

Yet, the case appears different when it involves Native American traditional religions—a loosely defined amalgamation of beliefs, often intertwined with Christian elements, and lacking formal sacred texts. In these instances, the US government has been bending the First Amendment of the Constitution so greatly that it is bound to snap.

The First Amendment of the US Constitution clearly states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” This means that the federal government should be neutral towards all religions, avoiding favoritism to any denomination. Although the U.S. Government generally avoids supporting or discriminating against specific religions, as demonstrated by the diverse holiday displays ranging from nativity scenes to the Satanic Temple altar in Iowa, traditional Native American religions have been the exception to this strict adherence to the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.

This exception is evident in NASA’s collaboration with the Navajo. In NASA’s 108-page education guide, “Story of the Stars,” intended for “Classrooms and Community-Based Educational Events,” Navajo religious beliefs are treated as being of equal importance to NASA’s scientific research. On page 3, the guide contains a statement from the Navajo: “We are the Holy People of the Earth. We are created and placed between our Mother Earth and Father Sky.” Further evidence of religious support in this guide is a story stating, “After the creation of the Earth, sky, and the atmosphere, the Holy people realized the whole university was entirely dark.” It is interspersed with tales of sacred directions, seasons, beliefs, and rules of life. Notably, in the acknowledgements, Leland Anthony Jr. is listed as the project’s “spiritual advisor.”

Given this content on NASA’s website, it’s hardly surprising that the White House would hastily convene a meeting with the Navajo Nation to consider the validity of objections to moon flights. However, these considerations favor one religion and teach one religion, thereby violating the US Constitution.

Another example of the Federal government showing a denominational preference appears in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Enacted in 1990, NAGPRA aids in the repatriation and reburial of human remains and artifacts deemed “sacred,” or as grave goods, or objects of cultural patrimony. A specific instance of this favoratism within NAGPRA is the requirement that at least 2 of the 7 individuals on the review committees “must be traditional Indian religious leaders.” Additionally, each NAGPRA meeting begins and ends with a “traditional Indian prayer.” For example, Armand Minthorn’s prayer at the January 5, 2023 meeting started with, “Today, as we come together, we thank our Creator for our life, our family, and our friends. And we ask our Creator today to give us strength and courage to go on and go forward.”

Perhaps most troubling is the acceptance of Native American religious creation myths as evidence for present day tribal affiliation to past populations. These tales have been leveraged to empty museums and universities of research collections–collections that might otherwise contribute to advancements in forensic identification techniques, aiding today’s Native American crime victims.

Final examples of the US government supporting Native American religions involve discriminatory practices based on sex. For instance, at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, religious traditions led Inuit elders to forbid female archaeologists from handling certain artifacts. Similarly, when the California Department of Transportation archaeologists collaborated with the Kashaya Pomo tribe, the tribe’s religious protocols dictated that menstruating women be isolated, prohibited from conducting fieldwork, kept away from Native elders, and forbidden from talking about spiritual topics!

It is time for the US government to stop its unconstitutional denominational preference of Native American religions. Stopping these preferences would uphold the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, protect scientific endeavors, and prevent discriminatory practices.

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You shouldn't be any more comfortable with the Navajo making demands based on their religion than Xianity or Islam. Being loosely defined and vaguely "spiritual" doesn't change any of that.

Imagine an Orthodox Jew dictating "that menstruating women be isolated, prohibited from conducting fieldwork, kept away from Jewish elders, and forbidden from talking about spiritual topics" and being able to get traction and compliance from the government (and government institutions).

Your religion's rules apply to you, not me. If your religion forbids putting cremains on the moon, don't send any cremains to the moon. If your religion demands the moon be honored, go honor the moon. Over there.

#Elizabeth Weiss #Navajo Nation #Native American religions #First Amendment #US Constitution #Establishment Clause #secularism #separation of church and state #freedom of religion #indigenous religions #religion #religion is a mental illness

[nyiiwest]

Save the bees

Save the sharks

Save the oceans

Save the children cuz bby…😵‍💫🫣

Honor indigenous treaties

Abolish the police and Justice system

Dismantle the government

Dismantle colonization

Save the fucking planet

Separate church and state

Free Palestine, Congo, Sudan

#save the bees #save the sharks #save the ocean #ocean #native american #acab1312 #ACAB #fuck the government #colonization #save the planet #separate church and state #free congo #free palestine #free sudan #trending #tumblr girls #indie music #indie artist #2014 tumblr #annailujj #save the children

[umarthiels]

surprise surprise, les mis letters has got me Thinking about Catholicism again!

#les mis letters #just tagging for personal use hfjfjwj #but yeah myriel my beloved #les mis published in 1862... idk when exactly myriel becomes bishop of digne but its so interesting #bc myriel is really serving that preferential option for the poor swag #i love myriel so much im breaking out my catechism handouts HAHAJSHDHF #but seriously to my knowledge All That is only really articulated in the 1960s and 70s onwards with the really revolutionary clergy #and its interesting to like grapple with/get into myriel and catholicism in general as it’s presented in lm #while knowing that. this is published 1862!!! the ph is still colonized by then! #noli me tangere was published 1887!!! and in it is padre DAMASO!!! a FRANCISCAN! who OUGHT to be like myriel but literally steps on '> #'indios' and DEMANDS they pay obeisance. a FRANCISCAN portrayed like that! and here is myriel #a BISHOP!!@ #padre damaso is also a franciscan iirc and dont get me started on irene and camorra (CAMORRA MY BELOATHED DIE BY MY SWORD) #sorry digression but yes very interesting #i guess part of it is that hugo was writing post revolution... that france had already had its anticlerical frenzy with the revolution and #hugo wasnt anticlerical and all that... and of course while the clergy did do oppression in france i don't think it was as bad as in the ph #where they were complicit in and participated in incredibly harsh and inhumane oppression and racism #(cough the monasterio de santa clara only accepting full blooded spanish as nuns until 1898 when the americans came.. though they did accept #native lay sisters who did household work etc) #like the church in lm is cruel in its discompassion/as a part of the wider world which is cruel bc it does not care/bc of apathy #meanwhile the church in noli and fili is cruel bc. okay first off inherently oppressive but second the people in it are personally shitty #damaso isnt just cruel in apathy he literally [*****] someone and has ibarras father disgraced #and he didn't do anything about what he knew was happening in the convent #anyway just spitballing im overdue for a reread of both anyway #but i have been doing research on the catholic institutions of the ph recently for Reasons #and the things they did.... dear god the children in the monasterio de santa clara.... #the 'problem' with the friars coercing women in the confessional.... #agh sorrh uh #tw clerical abuse #i think

[vintageslideshow]

Value Village score of yesterday was a box of 21 slides (20 126-film squares from 1975 and for some reason a random 35mm rectangular from 1973), but before we get to that here's an undated slide that I almost gave away. The caption on the back tells this:

"Indians and the Chief after a service ... Canada."

#slide #photograph #native american #indigineous people #first nations #and the white folks from church who bear the burden

[templekanehbosem23]

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#Church #Online Church #Cannabis Church #Multi-Faith Church #Non Denominational #Christian #Muslim #Paganism #Wicca #Islam #Native American Spirituality #Nativism #Pagan #Wiccan #Christianity #spiritualism #Multi-Faith

[artisticaction]

“Untitled”

Ryan Young

2023

Acrylic silkscreen print.

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A much overdo “gift” for my niij, who is pretty much the muse for my work lol, love you @beshnez

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Photo by me, featuring lyrics from Beyoncé’s ‘Church Girl’ aka O’s Alarm lol

#native american #indigenous #ryan young #native #art #queer #two spirit #photography #rm young photography #2 spirit #Beyoncé #church girl

[bestseasonsoflife]

Ruins of the adobe church at Pecos Historical Park by Jim Scully Via Flickr: Part of the original mission church remains and can be seen in the Pecos National Historical Park near Pecos, New Mexico.

#Pecos #New Mexico #ancient pueblo #Towa #ngc #national historical park #church #adobe #archeological site #Native American #flickr #Southwest #Snow #Winter

[divinum-pacis]

Indigenous Lutherans lead a worship service during the ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Aug. 10, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. RNS photo by Emily McFarlan Miller

#religion #christianity #protestantism #lutheran #evangelical lutheran church in america #christians #native american #indigenous #people #ohio #united states #north america #divinum-pacis

[coolspacequips]

My unpopular opinion abt the new Castlevania series ig is that I just don't have any care or sympathy for these little church goons that they were trying to humanize this time around... Like Olrox revenge kill go off, I watch u kill that boys mom minute 1 but I'm still in ur corner bbygirl! I see ur thru line.

But then his little shitty church bf sanctioning and standing by all the actions of the church and also we don't talk about the homophobia he's supporting while also being gay and also sleeping w a man his church would have (and did) sanctioned the genocide of several times over... I'm supposed to think the way he shut Olrox down was anything worth feeling bad for, I just rolled my eyes at his self righteousness. Walk away from that man, Olrox!! We saw where this manic Christian love leads, and it's what ur Abbott did (who I also don't give 1 fuck about him or his white xtian guilt especially after That LOL)

I guess I can tentatively respect that the church guard's storyline is gonna potentially be about deprogramming him, but I hate that they seemed to be posing him as correct in accusing Olrox of having no soul, when we as the viewer know it was an act of love that he didn't think he was capable anymore, after what was done to him at the hands of ppl that the church guard. To me all i felt was the heartache from his POV so common in these communities where u thought you have a Good Christian that saw you, but he still sees you as the monolith of his imaginary enemy the second push comes to shove, even though your actions have shown again and again that there's nuance to be had

#the only whites that gave gotten a pass from me is baby belmont and the speaker mom #who's daughter I'm sure will mature i want to like her but she got shackled into a plot w the abott #which means we have to spend a lot of time on his white man pain about how he had the power to do so many terriblw things and chose to do i #anyway just wanted to get this off my chest i couldn't watch it fast enough and don't remember the guards name #and didn't look it up bc i don't want someone looking for him and starting a fight w me #just sucks bc i love Olrox so much and a lot of his fan content is him w this man i can't stomach tbh #i hoped he would be different i hope he can change or that Olrox finds someone else #text posts #i don't want to get into it too much more i have to rewatch this show bc baby belmont and Annette are my kids and Edouard is so special 2 m #bls im not a hater so if u like the guard i don't care #i just have a lot less interest in these types of threads ik some ppl who have been victims of the church find them cathartic #but i often find the storyline too much in the business of comforting the oppressor being represented and find them tedious #raised in American South where a lot of the cultures being examined exist and have flavored it #particularly this time period being looked at w plantation slavery plus French and native relations being v highlighted in my region #ugh anyway let me not get started x2 plus i don't care who's side drolta is on #she's bad and unjustified just insane and likes murder and looks very hot while she does it the end #(i love her every show putting black girls in it take note of the way they treated her hair so many styles 🥺💕)

[pjharvey]

i think it’s very easy to either dismiss mormons as annoying missionaries who won’t leave you alone or as like a quirky wacky group with weird underwear, but otherwise harmless, but like. they have such a long history of being horrible towards black people, horrible towards native americans, and horrible towards women. all of this continues to this day. this isn’t even going into the homophobia and transphobia like every single lgbt exmormon i know has come out of it traumatized. but while the mormon church’s treatment of lgbt people grabs the most headlines it doesn’t even scratch the surface of their abuse towards their own members and neighboring nonmembers alike.

#like there have been several massacres of native americans in utah in the name of mormonism #and mormon theology teaches that native americans and black people both used to be white but were ‘cursed’ with dark skin for being wicked #black men couldn’t receive the priesthood (given to all other male church members) until 1978. 1978!!!

[ishedadordaddy]

Sometimes healing from religious trauma is looking back and going “HOLY FUCK! YOU SAID WHAT? JESUSSSSS CHRIST! I WAS A CHILD YOU SAID THAT TO, THATS JUST BLATANT HATE! MY GOD” and then hating yourself for ever believing it because you weren’t taught any different and had to on your own time realize that the adults in your life were just casually spouting hate speech with the excuse of religious texts.

And by the way. Feel free to vent in the tags or comments. Just PLEASE, don’t come onto here and try and argue why any points anyone tries to make about things they’ve been through aren’t that bad or should be ignored. Right now this is a safe space for people who have been through religious trauma. Not for people who are happy in their religion and want to convert others.

You have your own spaces. Use them.

#looking at you lds/Mormons #you know. I don’t care about the whole “oh we don’t want to be called mormons that’s disrespectful” thing #cause like. you know what’s more hateful? #ANTISEMITISM #Not even like “well it’s not our fault you interpreted it wrong type either. just blatant antisemitsm and being like and they had it coming #like no????? also like your religion is the fannon/fanfic of all Christian religons #no one treats you seriously you fucking crack ship of a religion and leave #the things that I was just casually taught that when you look back on it with like even the slightest bit of rose colored glasses removed #is just blatant hate speech man. #like no. don’t go around saying the native Americans are Jews who were forsaken by god #that’s racist #and also FULL of antisemitism #the amount of “and remember god is a white man who only loves us and only loves white men” speeches I’ve had is far too many #like I’ve been told to become a mom because god made me that way and it’s disrespectful to want a job cause god made us nurturing unlike men #and like all the anti-gay rhetoric and anti-trans #like if you’re not an old cishet white man from the 50s you are FUCKED in the eyes of their god #and people wonder why I think that the idea that god died years ago is preferable to a god existing #cause like. an all loving god wouldn’t allow for THIS SHIT especially not in the one true religion as some churches believe #tw vent #tw religion #tw homophobia #tw antisemitism #tw transphobia #tw racism #tw lds church and lds church beliefs #tw xenophobia #kinda? but I’m just gonna say yes to be safe #the amount of trigger warnings when I’m not even going IN DEPTH about any of the shit I’ve heard is honestly concerning and talks for itself #tw sexism #religious trauma

[shythalia]

Trigger Warnings for Colonialism, Racism, Genocide, & Mormonism

Ok, I'm getting even more upset about Mormonism. I already know it has many wrongs but literally right now, my parents (mostly my dad) are teaching us about how the fucking colonization of America & Philippines are excusable & fine.

To summarize what my dad basically said: "Spain invading the Philippines and Europe invading the Americas are all part of God's plan to introduce the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints to these lands." Just no. This is messed up. Colonialism is bad. Genocide & massacre are bad.

And then with how Mormons believe that Native Americans (a.k.a Lamanites, a.k.a the bad people, as we call them in the Book of Mormon) are cursed with dark skin for rebelling against God or whatever. This is old news at this point.

I'm not saying Americans & Filipinos becoming Christian is a bad thing. If you want to join the religion, go ahead. But the history of it is just.. very bloody & sad.

Apparently, the near-extinction of the Native Americans was prophesied in the Book of Mormon and it's supposed to be punishment? They deserved that apparently? Ferdinand Magellan & Christopher Columbus discovering these places is a good thing? They ruined our ancestors' lives!

Ughh, idk anymore. Btw, pls don't hate my parents for this. They're also anti-LGBTQ+ because of course. Just blame the church. This is the church's ideology. To anyone thinking I should leave the church, I don't think I can. I love my parents so much. It would ruin me & ruin them. I swear they are good but this church is really in their heads. I also don't want to be 'demonized' or seen as an enemy for leaving. Yeah, the church is like that..

And this church being so pro-America is weird. As a non-American Mormon, it is so weird. They literally have the Star Spangled Banner in the hymn books, guys. Even here.

#long post #sorry #this church is just idk man #mormon church #mormonism #tw colonization #tw colonialism #tw genocide #lds church #the church of jesus christ of latter day saints #tw racism #native american #filipino #philippines #america #fuck colonialism #fuck christopher columbus #fuck ferdinand magellan #idk #vent #rant #long rant #long vent

[bettertomorrows-world]

My problem? You don't have enough time for all those LOL. 😃 Fact is it's not the circumstances we encounter, & there always will be some, it's how we have become able to preserve & engage with & about those circumstances that speaks of the Mature Adults we have become. The things that are overwhelming, that's when it's better to look upward than at them or around us. There are many things We have to Leave At The Foot of The Cross. 

I like what Saint Francis Prayed, Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace

Where There is Darkness, Let Me Sow, LIGHT. Where there is Sadness, HOPE. Where There is Despair, HOPE. Where There is Injury, PARDON. Where There is doubt, YOUR FAITH FATHER. Where There is dysfunction, Your Salvation LORD. We're There is Corruption Lord, Your TRUTH. For we have Learned Lord It Is in Giving that We Receive. Pardoning that We Are Pardoned. It Is Dying To This World, That We Are Born To Eternal Life With YOU LORD. May Your Will Be Done here on Earth, As It Is I Heavenly Realms. 

Change In Me What Will Make Me, I Pray Lord, What All will Make Me More Like You. How I Think, How I Speak, How I Feel, How My Intentions Are For Another. May They All Astound To The One That Lives Inside This Perishing Shell of Nature. 

I Love You Lord, Let Others know that by What proceeds From Me I make That My Commitment While Being Suited in The Full Armor of GOD DAILY. Being of a Renewed Mind & Strengthened Spiritual Powers In Jesus Majestic, Holy, Grace Filled & Never Ending LOVING NAME.... 

FALCON... Better Tomorrow's... 

PEACE 🙏🤠 👍 🤟 

#Better Tomorrow's #Truth #Christ #Jesus Christ #GOD #so hot 🔥🔥🔥 #BTSP #BTEM #BetterTomorrows #SET FREE CHURCH #Hollywood Presbyterian Church #HOPE #GRACE #REDEMPTORIST CHURCH #First Baptist Church #FAITH Believeers God's House #Native American Church of The Living GOD #Native American People #spiritual awakening #spirituality #Youtube

[amerikaz1]

Since 2023, the United States has been celebrating Columbus' Day for about 86 years.

There are over a million Americans who are older than Columbus Day.

Italian immigrants have been celebrating Columbus Day for about 157 years. That's only a century and a half in the long game.

Whose idea was it to celebrate a slave trader?

Ask the Catholic Church...

#christopher columbus #Catholic Church #Italians #American holidays #Native Americans