#religious convenience

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

The average believer still trusts science the most, and resorts to religion when they don’t get what they want or what they want to hear.

You can easily spot the ones who don’t. Because they live like either the Amish or the Unabomber.

#science #religion #science vs religion #religion vs science #hypocrisy #religious hypocrisy #convenience #religious convenience #comfort and convenience #religion is a mental illness

[utilitycaster]

It's ironic, because it is definitely coming from the anti-religion crowd, but when people are super fixated on someone confiscating or stealing FCG's coin, the thing it most reminds me of are when you hear from ex-fundamentalists whose parents took away or cut up their "satanic" emo t-shirts when they were teens. What's worse is I suspect it's actually coming from precisely those former teens, who have not realized that in adulthood they've become their parents just in the other direction, and that, but for an accident of sexuality, they would right now be a married Republican with a tween kid whom they would making as abjectly miserable as their parents once made them, because they never unlearned the behavior of "anything I think is bad is objectively dangerous and corrupting and should be destroyed", simply switched what they thought was bad.

#it's SUCH an obviously raised in the religious majority and never developed empathy for others move #like if your response to this is haha funny rather than thinking about graffiti on synagogues #or about people attacking hijabis #or about quebec and france outlawing Visible Religious Expression That Conveniently Only Affects Non-Christians #you should perhaps interrogate that #anyway. #cr tag

[9w1ft]

Don't you find the strict rules of society in Japan overwhelming for you and the kids?

not one bit

#i can’t express how safe i have felt here versus the US over the past several years specifically #no guns… good healthcare… clean environment… good childcare benefits… good food… #no strong religious chokehold permeating society #vaccines and masking aren’t a moral conundrum #functioning public transportation system #functioning postal system #don’t have to worry about people randomly yelling at you #many convenience stores open 24/7 #focus on seasonal eating so produce tastes better and you appreciate it more #i can walk the streets at night #in my city all childcare costs and child medical costs are waived up to 3 years old #cost of childbirth fully covered including a week long stay in the hospital after #you can drink the water #early public education has a focus on community and natural science #credit cards are automatically set up to autopay out of your bank account #my company does my taxes for me #did i mention no guns? #i could go on #like i have my philosophical issues with the country for sure but my base needs are covered and that means a lot as a parent

[lunaryuwu]

Luna’s richjake music diaries #2

#be more chill #richjake #Spotify #luna’s music diaries #<yeah i made a tag for this #figured it’d be convenient if i wanted to look for the stuff i posted #i used to listen to this song religiously lol

[shinobicyrus]

While Democrats and well-meaning liberals were so busy congratulating themselves for passing the Respect for Marriage act, Republicans have predictably exploited the gaping holes in the bill everyone knew was there and are continuing to attack marriage equality of any kind on the basis of protecting “religious liberty” - a thing the Respect for Marriage Act goes out of its way to kowtow to.

Republicans know that passing laws that obviously discriminate against a group won’t pass muster in court. Thus, much like Texas did with their anti-abortion “let citizens sue abortion seekers” law, Tennessee wants to outsource all their discrimination to individual citizens, empowering them to take away the rights of anyone who fail to satisfy their personal values.

Just as religious conservatives spent decades chipping away at women’s bodily autonomy, they will slice and carve and re-litigate every inch of progress that’s been made until respecting human rights and dignity are merely a personal opinion someone can opt-out on.

No one is safe.

#This is my surprised face #so-called #Religious Liberty Laws #are just a convenient vehicle in which #other people's rights can be held hostage by the whims of the lowest denominator #so much for the #better angels of our nature #that the Founders envisioned #Respect for Marriage Act #Homophobia #Republicans #LGBTQ Rights #Interracial Marriage #Marriage Equality #This is fine #🔥

[margridarnauds]

Reading Hazbin meta is weird because it's like "Here's a ten paragraph analysis of why Adam secretly drinks Respect Women juice despite telling Charlie that she should stay in her place, fetishizing her relationship with Vaggie, and overall acting like a stereotypical frat bro" and then "Anyway, Lilith's a bitch (and so's Eve)"

#mandatory 'I don't LIKE the way that Hazbin really dealt with the religious components' #'i thought that Lilith's inclusion in general is something that deserved a lot more sensitivity since she's tied so strongly to #Jewish tradition.' #'if I was doing it I'd have done a lot differently' #but also there IS a way that the fandom will treat male characters as inherently complex #and women as inherently Not #(unless they're convenient for the men) #and it could end up being that Lilith turns out to be a raging bitch #I wouldn't be SURPRISED #but like. fandom didn't even give her a chance #and that isn't purely on the creators

[bijoumikhawal]

And the fact that Garak grew up being taught that the service class was a vital part of the Cardassian mosaic and did not think to question that until being sent to Bamarren, when he gradually became concerned with power and status... the fact that when Mila tells him he has the "opportunity" to rise above his class and he tells her he wasn't aware there was something to rise above not long after he asks Tolan if being a service worker bothered him... him remembering the latter in the context that Tolan never had to be (never could be?) forced to do violence the way it was demanded of Garak in order for him to have an "opportunity" to assimilate by committing violence

#Cipher talk #Ds9 #ASIT #Elim Garak #Edosian melancholies #Honestly Tolan and Tain's implied relationship fascinates me #Imagine you are an indigenous man that illegally practices your religion and you work for one of the main heads of the state that's made it #Illegal. He has all the power and influence anyone could want. He's fucking your sister. He knocks her up. You agree to a scheme where you #Pretend to be her husband to spare him the shame because he decides NOT to kill her #He knows where the local chapter of illegal religious meetings happens. Presumably you do too. He never cracks down on it. #He tries to force you to do an assassination or teach someone your gardening methods to do it. You refuse and live. You raise his son as #Your own and you teach him gardening. You know one day he will almost assuredly be made into a killer. You cannot save him. #Is the punishment for denying him? Or is it just convenient that it hurts.

[worstloki]

if you can gush constantly about enjoying a piece of media but diss the idea of people disliking the same thing unless/even though they provide detailed reasoning or proof with citations... idk I feel like you need to reassess something

#''how can you hate on--'' it is a movie! and even worse - a marvel movie! and yet more even it's biggest crime yet - it is a terrible one ! #it makes no pretense of consistency with the rest of the 'cinematic' universe it alleges to come from ! #the character acts like nothing of itself in the previous movie appeared in ! #there is no character arc nor development of any character save for in the villain's final breaths ! the flimsy morality of such regret ! #the humour is subpar in that it is reliant on gags - a cheap and desperate tactic to make weak comedy appear stronger ! #for all that it speaks of love and grief the writing is poor and smart decent lines do not fit the context they are spoken in ! #nor the characters speaking them thematically ! #there is either too much unexplained occurring or nothing taking up too much time. this pacing and convenient exposition is bland ! #final denouement carries little to no weight ! #fight scenes are badly choreographed despite the genre + there is dubious camerawork in play on top of it which further breaks immersion ! #it seems unable to decide on the rules of the world it has itself established ! #ending cliffhangers can be good but in this instance feels as though done constantly solely to encourage watching the next product ! #character interactions leave much to be desired and motivation to move the story forward tend to be convoluted at best ! #what was once original characterization built on relevant events to flesh the character feels generic by both writing and presentation ! #outfits make no attempt to look like they're authentic materials (plastic? :/ ?) and the CGI is problematically attained AND poor quality ! #the 'inspiration' drawn from comic religious and myth source material is either offensive meaningless easter eggs or both ! #maybe the move was generic and formulaic and difficult to follow along without other pieces of media and boring to top it off ! #someone out there seems to believe sexualizing the men is a solution ! #characters I have interest in were sidelined or mistreated by the narrative ! #racist casting/roles have been given and the product did not reflect how it was advertised ! #maybe............. someone simply did not have fun watching it .......................... has that been.........considered................? #L + based + ratio + Ctrl+Z + must I say more? #no one owes anyone an explanation to their enjoyment or lack thereof of a piece of media and shouldn't be insulted for it smh #now if someone gives reasons and THOSE are dodge... but no this isn't about that. another time then

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special, above it all.”

-- Dan Barker, “Losing Faith in Faith”

The unbridled arrogance of Xian humility.

#Dan Barker #creator of the universe #religious arrogance #religious narcissism #concierge god #god of convenience #god of convenient utility #religion is a mental illness

[enslaughts]

verse. . . 𝙽𝙴𝙸𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁 𝙳𝙴𝙰𝚃𝙷 𝙽𝙾𝚁 𝙻𝙸𝙵𝙴.

re : doomcoming.

instead of clutching at her cross necklace, laura lee grabs at the door handle. later, she'll blame it on how old and decrepit the plane was rather than the same thing that set leonard on fire. she goes from yanking on the door to elbowing the window until it shatters in a single motion. choking on smoke, she throws herself from the seat moments before the explosion, hits the water hard enough to choke on air too, but it's cool, and dark amid a flash of orange and yellow, and she is alive. leonard, on the other hand. . .

she's been here before ; underwater and bleeding. but nobody saves her this time. nobody saves any of them.

the first crash cracked at her faith— only a little, tiny fissures she could neatly stitch back together, especially with lottie to inspire. others leaning on her faith has always made it seem stronger. but the second crash breaks every last stitch she painstakingly sewed together as if it was never there to begin with. it's the nature of it ; fire from thin air, just as she dared to hope. it's cruel, it's demonic, satanic, to her, which blends fairly easily with her worldview. it's easy to blame her suffering on the source of all evil, but she's devout. she's tried to be good, and kind, and endlessly so, so why isn't god defending them ? not leonard, not her, not any of them. god isn't saving any of them from this darkness ; why ? do they deserve it ? no. laura lee refuses to believe that. she can't think of anyone, not a single soul, who would deserve this.

doomcoming hits her like ripple in the ocean. it isn't much of anything but a meal. she eats, she drinks, and she stares quietly at the fire. she's never been mad at god before. and she's furious, and devastated, and she doesn't have the heart to tell lottie, not after she baptized her herself. moralizing is hardwired to her ; the crash, the food, the lack of it, it all has meaning. it's not an apathetic planet spinning on its axis, without love or hate alike. it's an apathetic god, watching her and her young, innocent friends die slow. watching satan pluck them from the sky like they belong to him instead of god. after she gave herself to him, he doesn't lift a finger.

psychedelic mushrooms don't help with a crisis of religion, turns out ! laura lee is as much of a follower as a leader. she can stand up to their coach if she thinks she has her teammates support, if she thinks it will help them. she's a servant, a purpose waiting to be fulfilled, and she just lost her's. oh, but lottie. lottie's just gained it. laura lee can't hear god anymore, a part of her doesn't want to, but lottie can, so effortlessly certain of it, a candle in the dark, so bright and strong and beautiful. what can laura lee do but follow ?

#study. . .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝙷𝙴𝙰𝙳𝙲𝙰𝙽𝙾𝙽⠀:⠀laura lee #verse. . .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝙽𝙴𝙸𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁 𝙳𝙴𝙰𝚃𝙷 𝙽𝙾𝚁 𝙻𝙸𝙵𝙴⠀:⠀laura lee #religion // #ask to tag #doc linked in the title for convenience! #i'll update there and re - post when i add stuff but i feel like this sets the trajectory well #and i haven't rewatched the ep after doomcoming yet so <3 this is all for now #i just think that. lottie becoming laura lee's religion 🧍 #it is not as simple as that though!! can't unmake a christian that quickly (unfortunately) #her morals are what gives her this very crisis so it won't be seamless given the. religious practices the group. goes on to lol #but i feel like her particular faith coupled with the trauma of the wilderness wearing at her would make it like #so easy for her to melt into the hysteria #in those moments anyway. after she comes out of them it's only more crisis from here

[murcielagatito]

barbara and gerald are so queerplatonic like just look at them they love eachother so much and have kids together and live together and eat cute lil lunches together that is a gay husband and his lesbian wife and they love eachother so much. like ugh <3

#if anybody knows of a good workwives fic with queerplatonic howards please let me know #wanna see them love eachother wholly and genuinely #barbara howard #gerald howard #ESPECIALLY WITH THEM BEING OLDER QUEERS TOO #and ESPECIALLY with them being religious older queers #like imagine loving who you werent supposed to and then finding a man that feels the exact same way and just ugh #u know how it goes #they marry out of convenience and have kids be theyre supposed to #but they just dont love eachother that way #they try for a really long time and it just doesnt work out that way #they knew it never would but they try #and theyre so used to eachother and do genuinely love eachother that #they decide its easier for everyone to simply live together #and then eventually after all that they become besties #gay married besties that have kids together <3 #the howards <3 #<- their queerplatonic ship name that imma use on here #abbott elementary

[nikatyler]

I really hate how in my country, politicians are like "we belong to the West ☺️" and then we're like "fine what about this thing that is completely normal in the western Europe" and then they're like "noooo not like that, look at Poland and Hungary tho, they have some good laws about it"

#this could apply to a lot of things but specifically i'm talking about lgbt stuff and gay marriage #one political party brought it up again and wants to legalize it #so now there's a wide range of reactions going from 'marriage is only between a man and a woman' to #'they're genetically twisted' (yes that's a title i actually read today) #also i love how this country is mostly atheist but the moment it's convenient people start bringing up god #or maybe the religious people just get really loud idk #but then you listen to them for a bit and you're like oh. well i'm not sure if you're making your god very proud tbh #(not saying religion bad but you know. you can imagine the groups that are.) #anyway i will probably delete this later #i just needed to rant #it's like they waited for pride month to drop the biggest homophobic bombs #nika rambles #don't reblog please

[seoafin]

I couldn't resist drawing rip!mc in a skirt after I've seen you mention it a few times in your fics! Though i was having a hard time deciding whether i should draw her with high stockings or thighs but I'd say either would look good on her. Please, i love her so much. I hc that Shoko bought this lovely set for her 😭❤️

she's so cute i love her!!!!!

#TINAAAAAAAAA THANKS FOR BLESSING ME WITH UR ART!!! #love her and her short skirt ms. girl is out here living her best life #it's skirt and sundress season (which i conveniently mention in the fic) #the way u called me out for mentioning rip!mc's legs too much im deaddddd #every time someone sends me art its akin to a religious experience 😭😭 #she's lovely <3 #liishook #.fa

[monsterhugger]

love is my bf listening intently while i try to explain to them my thoughts about whether jesus is a figure in yugioh lore

#look. other deities and religious figures exist as yugioh cards and/or entities in the yugioh universe #demons are in play (at least in japanese) #i just think it makes sense for jesus to exist in yugioh either as a participant in shadow games or as a duel spirit #technically the shadow games predate jesus but there must have been some kind of monster dueling game during the roman empire #norse gods are duel spirits like there can't have been a 2000+ year gap in shadow gaming that conveniently glosses over biblical canon

[chubbswithhuggs]

Straight people who have been or are married act like it's something special as if not almost every culture does it and as if it's not viable to most people

#like not even lawfully married tho some of these girls will be only religiously married and talking like this #marriage is no unique and people are allowed to put their two cents in about it esp if their religion culture or country idealizes it #like girl half of you bitches are in marriages of convenience w/ abusive power dynamics and unhappy #a marriage is just a relationship. Everyone can have a relationship so everyone can have input on marriage. #like don't let people talk shit to you about specifically your marriage but stop acting like it's special and unknowable #most people you know have witnessed multiple married people and their dynamics in their social lives personal lives and work lives #jovi talks

[lightgaswaterelectricityrent]

for those following along I've decided to upgrade my notebooks but not buy the cd. And also I'm making the dog a popsicle

#the cd was dance fever by florence and the machine because i want to listen to it in the car #but i can't currently justify the expense! #i mean i have an aux cord in the car but the cd is convenient i religiously use a burned copy of lungs from 2010 in the car