#religious anarchism

[joy-haver]

there isn't a "kill all the ____" that will fix the problems of the world, because, 1. you probably can't. 2. if you did, more of them would probably come into existence, or 3. other people would come to fit the same social position. 4. There isn't a group of Fundamentally Bad Evil People that Cause All The Problems, because 5. Harm isn't caused by a type of person. everyone causes harm and an effective system of addressing harm has to contend with that. 6. you will end up expanding the definition of ____ to include whoever else you want to kill anyway. which will suck. 7. Destruction without building will leave nothing behind. New harms will arise. Old harms will continue. Because there is nothing to replace them. There is nothing Helpful being done. a better world isn't created by just getting rid of all the bad stuff and calling it a day. you have to actually make something that meets peoples needs. 8. structures of power and harm sometimes maintain themselves even if no one intends them to or purposefully wants them to. 9. systems of power will end up finding a scapegoat. they will convince you that some marginalized group are the real ____ and you should focus on them. and in your zeal and blood thirst you, or at least some of your allies, will fall for it. And you will commit atrocities. 10. The world that is created can only come from the world that is. And look, whatever group you are thinking of -- yes I mean them too. Pedophiles, rapists, murderers, sociopaths, nazis, billionaires, cops, you name it. Harm and oppression is far too complicated to ever be solved with Finding The Right Group To Kill. And there are lots of really great arguments to be made about why eliminationist rhetoric is ethically bad, or historically questionable, etc. I am open to that being added on and talked about too. But my point is that It Will Not Accomplish Your Desired Results. You Will Have Committed Atrocities and You Will Have Failed At Achieving Your Initial Goal.

#anarchism #rose baker #religious anarchism #anarchy as religion #prison abolition #harm

[wulfinna]

Retiring An Old Anarchist Slogan

One should not have to be a religious anarchist to understand why the adage “No Gods No Masters” is antiquated and ought be retired. This would certainly not be to defend the existence of any deity, pantheon or religious practice pertaining to anarchy (which has no mind for any faith whatsoever,) but to recognize redundancies that, intentionally or not, marginalize those who seek complete…

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#anarchism #anarchy #faith #religion #religious anarchism #religious anarchy

[toastiemcstrudel]

A few flag re/designs of various religious anarchist schools of thought

Buddhist Anarchism

Christian Anarchism

Islamic Anarchism

Jewish Anarchism

Taoist Anarchism

#flags #vexillology #new flag #flag design #flag redesign #vexillography #design #redesign #political ideologies #political ideology #ideology #Buddhist Anarchism #Christian Anarchism #Islamic Anarchism #Jewish Anarchism #Taoist Anarchism #Religious Anarchism #Anarchism #Anarchy

[ritual-transvestism]

We should invent more deities, like no shade to the god of Abraham we’ve got a complicated but not entirely bad history.

I’m proposing a new goddess, how you worship her is by hanging out outside in the night, it help if it’s dark and you’re sitting quietly just sort of breathing. You can do drugs or whatever if you’d like I’m not rn for some personal reasons.

Still a work in progress, don’t have a name or serious core tenants but as the first official worshipper I’m picking up a lot of queerness and a strong belief in the commons, and a strong aversion to hierarchy.

If you wanna join hmu

#new deity #transfem #religion #new cult /pos #queer #anarchist #religious anarchism #queer anarchism

[contaminatedvessel]

cutting up my clothes and using the acrylic paint I stole from my sister to make queer and political patches, knowing my apostle parents are gonna lose their shit.

I honestly don't care anymore if they get pissed. If they can repeatedly try to force their religion on me I should be allowed to express myself and my views however the fuck I want :)

#queer punk #anarchopunk #punk #anarchism #anarchist #queer anarchism #ex christian #ex apostolic #religous trauma #ex religious #anarcha queer #trans punk #trans anarchist #queer punx #diy punk #diy punx #trans punx #queer #lgbtq #transgender

[muffinlevelchicanery]

Caption: “It is a very convenient kind of religious freedom that lets you pick and choose the laws you’d like to follow while simultaneously ensuring that you can still dictate how everybody else lives their lives.” A figure of someone frowning wearing a shirt that reads “keeping the state out of the church but not vice versa” exists in the small space where other text in the image does not.

- Uncredited artist

#relevant #religious freedom #freedom of religion #fascisim #christofascism #communism #socialism #anarchism #feminism #anarchist #us politics #uk politics #terf island

[stinkydogclub]

Some prints i did last night.

#screenprinting #silkscreen #anarchism #religious trauma #religion

[bodyunderconstruction]

Please, Ease the pain from the past and present and let the future be more pleasant 

#poetry #free palestine #anarchism #mutual aid #poets on tumblr #religious art #I ask the past to stop biting and screaming but it only spirals more torwards complete agony #Idk how I feel about religion but it gives me a good reason to meditate and pray that whatever the fuck is going gets better

[bfpnola]

Did you know that Giving Tuesday is a holiday where you can give back to your favorite organizations to help fulfill their missions of bettering this world? This year, we’d like you to consider Better Future Program (BFP) for your donations! Founded in 2016 by Reagan Peters-Roussell, BFP is a 501(c)(3) youth-run nonprofit headquartered in Bulbancha, also known as New Orleans, Louisiana. Our mission is to build a better and brighter global future for marginalized youth through education, awareness, and unity!

To fulfill this mission, with the help of over 70 registered volunteers as well as over 1,300 supporters globally from Brazil to Malaysia, BFP offers 3,000+ free social justice, mental health, and academic resources to the public! With your donations, we can host annual educational book drives, continue expanding our mutual aid network (ex. our gender-affirming binder drive in May), create paid internships for marginalized youth, and expand our regional chapters 👀

Link to donate here! ACLU article on supporting grassroots leaders linked here!

#reaux speaks #black lives matter #anti capitalism #abolition #intersectionality #educational equity #anti racism #religious liberty #disability justice #mad liberation #climate change #decolonization #gender equity #queer #trans #bodily autonomy #anarchism #donation #donations #mutual aid #giving tuesday #black liberation

[ellisdee161]

Border Crossings: Faith in Anarchy

(2018?)

#artwork #original #art #collage #faith #anarchism #anarchist art #francis of assisi #god #justice #religious art #faith in anarchy

[joy-haver]

my beloved friend,

Ask yourself, does throwing your own heart on the pile of death bring you salvation? Does your hurt bring them back from the dead? Does your anger stop the bombs being dropped on them?

Liberation isn’t about how we feel inside. You do not owe it to the dead to cry for them. Grieve, mourn, but do it with purpose. Do it so you can lift back up your head. The dead don’t need it.

But the living do need your action. And you can affect it. All that you touch, you change. All the world is not a closed system. You have loved ones, you have friends, you have hobbies full of acquaintances. As you show them kindness, as you comfort them through the pain of being complicit, you can begin to shape them.

Every teenager you feed and clothe is one less who feels the need to join the military and blow up other children to get those same needs met. Every airline pilot, every dock worker, everyone in television, you can comfort them through the idea of a union. And then, if the time comes, there strike may prevent the delivery of the bombs. Every native food crop that you plant makes us more resilient. The boycotts and the strikes we foster will hold out because of hickory trees and persimmons that we planted and they harvest. Be patient. With yourself and with others. Talk, listen. Do things that you can see grow. We win this by building, slow and steady, but urgent, not alone, part of a larger whole.

All of your love is not wasted. Make space inside of yourself for it. Let the flames die down. Our problems are systemic. Our fight is complicated. But that is all the more reason to focus on the attainable, the little things, the longterm effects.

As le guin says

“We live under capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be ended by human beings”

You have your part in this. It is not insignificant. And so much of it can be done sitting down.

The real work of liberation lies in building the infrastructure from which further liberation can happen.

#religious anarchism #anarchism #anarchy #rose baker #text post

[carrion-collective]

against apocalypses

and it became evident to me that there would be no sounding trumpet. that God would not wipe every tear from every eye. no divine tribunal would punish wrong and vindicate right, and there would be no empyrean kingdom from above, forced on us by blissful, providential destiny.

so my longing was placed into my own hands--like a sword, like a scepter, like a shovel. we will be given no heaven but the one we grow.

#visions #solarpunk #anarchism #anarchy #writing #poetry #carrioncore #deepest love to all the religious homies #Im just going through it with the very concept of one sovereign creator rn

[alldni]

to be honest with you i don't trust leftists who are wayyyyy unnecessarily rude to religious people. going against the oppressive power the church as an establismeny has is one thing, i'm all for clowning on the pope and megachurch businesses and the generally cruel hierarchal, misogynistic, queerphobic, racist etc structures within these churches.

but like - i don't think we should be directing ad much anger as we do to random small churches? pastor bob or whoever the fuck is just some dude who grew up christian, the local pastor died, he took his spot. the attendants are not evil or oppressive for following that religion. if they are bigoted that is not the religion's fault, it is their fault and the fault of whoever taught them that that was what their religion stood for.

these structures can get dangerous unchecked, yes, 100%. the absolute insane amount of hierarchy is rotten inside an out, because imho the most organized a religion ever SHOULD get is like... a spiritual elder to a small group, not heads who are basically CEOs.

the absolute vitriol i see against any random little church building to ever exist is just... weird? and seems to be pretty based in, honestly, religious trauma for a lot of ppl, rather than logic and empathy.

idk. this isn't me going "oh organized religion is pure and angelic and has done no wrong" because i don't agree with organized religion as a concept at all, i just don't! but as someone who IS religious, it can be worrying to see the absolute hatred so many leftists hold for just... any and all groups of religious people meeting in any form.

community is important, the collective is important. for a lot of people that's what religion is for them, collective. i don't really think we should be trying to take that away from people, we should just be trying to teach them how to make it better and fairer.

#does that make any sense ?? #politics #tw religion #tw religious trauma #anarchism #leftism #anarchist #leftist

[mrmallard]

I've actually been thinking about doing another big post about like cultural Christianity, the expressive power of transgression and what feels like a HUGE rebound of the religious right even compared to the past eight years of heightening political tension. I've been very blunt and a bit edgy about the topic in the past, and after really nailing down my values and ideals regarding religion, I would like to really get into the meat of how I feel.

But like if people are going to get tangled up about using "god" and "jesus" in irreverent ways like this, I'm going to either be a clown about it or I'm gonna be a dick about it.

I'll talk about it tomorrow when I'm not tired. It's not wholly "overly opinionated Christian naysayers are dicks and I don't have to abide by Christian norms in a secular society, so fuck you", but it is, in fact, partially "overly opinionated Christian naysayers are dicks and I don't have to abide by Christian norms in a secular society, so fuck you".

#my worldview is a bit broader than just that. like i think hammering down my feelings as Religious Anarchism has helped me articulate #how I feel

[whimisicalwitch]

Not my photo. Credits to Pinterest

#anarchism #capitalism #US #united states #religion #religious trauma #religious freedom #hypocrisy

[blackcat-brazil]

Children must be Children! Against ALL forms of alienation and religious superstition against children.

#anarquismo #anarquia #anarchism #anarchy #acab #antifa #against religious superstition