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angelpuns · 7 months

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Not entirely sure why I'm sending this, I guess I just wanted to share a few funny stories to a guy who also used to be Catholic?

My little sibling's confirmation teacher told them that everyone who isn't Christian is depressed, but the way they told me was his teacher thinks that all gay people are depressed and I died laughing. My little sibling supports the LGBTQ+ and wants out of the Catholic faith.

It reminded me of when my confirmation teacher told the class not to brag about being born into the Catholic faith to people who weren't or non Catholics, I laughed so hard after, like, I did not want to be there, sir, what do you mean "brag"?? Old Catholics are just so wacky to me and make me laugh about these things.

Sorry for the small rant, I just thought it was funny. That confirmation class taught me a lot things I don't think they wanted to teach lmao.

Excellent I love funny Catholic stories gimme gimme

ALSO CW FOR TALKING ABOUT CHURCH CAMP/RELIGON/CATHOLICSM FOR ANYONE ELSE READING THIS

oh my god- THIS IS A UNIVERSAL CATHOLCI EXPERIENCE I THINK OMFG

OKAY:

this is also like when my mom ( who was not raised Catholic *sideeye at her rn* ) literally was like ' well Catholicism is more valid because we take the Eucharist' GIRL WHAT-

like that entire side of the family that she's from is not even Catholic or even under the umbrella of Catholicism- AND SHE'S GONNA SAY THAT WITH HER WHOLE CHEST??? GIRLLLL

Literally immediately after she was like ' don't tell anyone that, though, it's just rude :)' This was after the preacher of the C.P. church that her family goes to told her I had been saved at church camp ( which is a whole separate issue of Protestant faith, esp at church camps cause the whole ' saving during the worship service ' and that like - the emotional manipulation to get save is just so overwhelming that - even though I felt nothing and didn't really believe in getting saved - followed along due to it being the societal norm. Like maaaaaan no one tells you that when you go to church camp they're gonna pressure you all week about being saved. AND ALSO THE PEOPLE THAT PRESSURED ME KNEW I WAS RAISED CATHOLIC SO?? IDKK

ANYWAY SORRY I JUST SPRINGBOARDED AND STARTED RAMBLING CAUSE BEING CATHOLIC AND C.P./ PROTESTANT IS SO WILD????

#Religon is so wild #like rituals of catholicsm i think are really cool #m but mannnnn it is such a stuffy and stuck up relgion #and being autistic i never really bought into religon #but also the other mental illness sort of forced me to buy into it??#actually I THINK THATS SOMETHING WORTH EXPLAINING LMAO #later tho #cw religon #tw religon #cw church camp #tw church camp

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sleepsart · 2 years

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" Does he know I'm forsaken / The original sinner / But soon he'll know " - The Fruits, Paris Paloma

[ ID: A full body drawing of Angel Scott from the Afterlife SMP. He's sitting sideways with one leg crossed over the other. He's leaning forward and his arms are draped over his legs. He's leaning his head back to look at the viewer with a disinterested expression. He's wearing a loose tunic, shoulder guards, wrist guards, and golden boots. He has large wings and a halo. He's covered in various scars, most notably top surgery scars and two small bite scars on his neck. End ID ]

#id #napsart #mcyt #alsmp #smajor #smajor1995 #dangthatsalongname #alsmp fanart #smajor fanart #religious imagery #tw religon #religious themes

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cheolhub · 1 year

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i need to talk abt the near religious experience i have every time i listen to baekhyun

#ice queen…..#ill *****#he makes me feel 50 different emotions at once #grrrr bark woof #tw religon #im not even religious

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strawberrytoycounty · 1 year

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My pagan holy trinity> Strawberry baphomets,

#tw religon #paganism #little witch #occultism

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i-like-the-muppets · 1 year

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Why are so many p*rn bots following me? Don’t they know I’m a God loving muppet fan?

#the muppets #tw religon

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orphudice · 1 year

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my church is equivalent to hell, actually

#first of all none of these parents should be parents y r u guys screaming and threatening to hit ur kids.maybe there is a reason they dont #like u #also they make the kids do tests on bible stories which??um #the last thing u shld be doing to a kid to raise them religously and spirtually is turn it into a school enviroment with grades and testing #also hearing my churchs choir sing for their winter concert right after i saw my former choirs amazing winter concert was disappointing #tw religon #tw church #tw parents #tw parental abuse #ask to tag

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grrrrrrrbarkbarkbark · 2 years

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You cant spell Bible without the word Bi. Checkmate Christians.

#bisexual #biromantic #tw religon #checkmate chrisitans #okay to reblog

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sixteenseveredhands · 1 year

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The Petelia Tablet, Greek, c.300-200 BCE: this totenpass (a "passport for the dead") was meant to be buried in a human grave; it bears an inscription that tells the dead person exactly where to go and what to say after crossing into the Greek Underworld

Made from a sheet of gold foil, this tablet measures just 4.5cm (a little over 1.5 inches) in length, and although it was found inside a pendant case in Petelia, Italy, it's believed to have originated in ancient Greece. It was meant to aid the dead in their journey through the Underworld -- providing them with specific instructions, conferring special privileges, and granting them access to the most coveted realms within the afterlife.

The Petelia tablet, displayed with the pendant case in which it was discovered

The tablet itself dates back to about 300-200 BCE, while the pendant case/chain that accompanies it was likely made about 400 years later, during the Roman era. It's believed that the tablet was originally buried with the dead, and that an unknown individual later removed it from the burial site and stuffed it into the pendant case. Unfortunately, in order to make it fit, they simply rolled it up and then snipped off the tip of the tablet. The final lines of the inscription were destroyed in the process.

The inverse side of the Petelia tablet

These textual amulets/lamellae are often referred to as totenpässe ("passports for the dead"). They were used as roadmaps to help guide the dead through the Underworld, but they also served as indicators of the elite/divine status of certain individuals, ultimately providing them with the means to obtain an elevated position in the afterlife.

The Petelia tablet is incised with an inscription in ancient Greek, and the translated inscription reads:

You will find a spring on your left in Hades’ halls, and by it the cypress with its luminous sheen.

Do not go near this spring or drink its water. You will find another, cold water flowing from Memory’s lake; its guardians stand before it.

Say: "I am a child of Earth and starry Heaven, but descended from Heaven; you yourselves know this. I am parched with thirst and dying: quickly, give me the cool water flowing from Memory’s lake."

And they will give you water from the sacred spring, and then you will join the heroes at their rites.

This is [the ... of memory]: [on the point of death] ... write this ... the darkness folding [you] within it.

The final section was damaged when the tablet was shoved into the pendant case; sadly, that part of the inscription does not appear on any of the other totenpässe that are known to exist, so the meaning of those lines remains a mystery (no pun intended).

Lamellae that are inscribed with this motif are very rare. They're known as "Orphic lamellae" or simply "Orphic tablets." As the name suggests, these inscriptions are traditionally attributed to an Orphic-Bacchic mystery cult.

The inscriptions vary, but they generally contain similar references to a cypress tree, one spring that must be avoided, another spring known as the "Lake of Memory," the sensation of thirst, and a conversation with a guardian (or another entity within the Underworld, such as the goddess Persephone) in which the dead must present themselves as initiates or divine individuals in order to be granted permission to drink from the Lake of Memory. They are thereby able to obtain privileges that are reserved only for the elite.

Though the specifics of this reward are often vague, it may have been viewed as a way to gain access to the Elysian Fields (the ancient Greek version of paradise) or as a way to participate in sacred rites; some totenpässe suggest that it may have allowed the soul to break free from the eternal cycle of reincarnation. Regardless, the overall objective was likely the same: to obtain a special status and acquire privileges that were inaccessible to most of the souls in the Underworld.

Sources & More Info:

Altlas Obscura: The Ancient Greeks Created Golden Passports to Paradise

The Museum of Cycladic Art: The Bacchic-Orphic Underworld

Bryn Mawr College: Festivals in the Afterlife: a new reading of the Petelia tablet

The Getty Museum: Underworld (imagining the afterlife)

The British Museum: Petelia tablet (with pendant case; chain)

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darlingkairos · 4 months

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“Cain stood over Abel and said," Look where glory gets you"

Then he stood under the Lord and said, "I am a sower, not a saint,”

I wonder what Abel thought when he caught sight of his brother’s raised fist

If he hated

The voice of his blood cried from the ground, but what did it whisper?

“I am not the lord, I am your little brother… and I looked up to you, you were worthy in my eyes before you closed them.”

Whispers of Your Brother’s Blood, I,e

#star wars #anakin skywaller #obi wan kenobi #obi wan and anakin #artists on tumblr #fanartist #my art #art #fanart #procreate #digital artist #anakin skywalker art #I’m in femcel hell kill me #recycle my parts create someone new and better #religon tw #religous themes #cain and abel #christianity

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dirtyheathencommie · 1 year

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the perception of good and bad and self-image when recovering from extremist religious upbringings.

I’ve realized that my idea of being a “good person” is warped beyond what I’d originally thought. Fundamentalist christianity teaches that morality is only defined through the word of god. People without it have no moral compass. So you’re raised in it, indoctrinated, and when you come out you have no sense of self when it comes to judging the morality of your own behavior. Wanting to be a good person then becomes a hindrance that causes unhelpful behaviors that ultimately hurt you and your relationships.

Disagreeing with an authority figure doesn’t make you a bad person.

Saying no when people ask for your help doesn’t make you a bad person.

Neither does anger, jealousy, self-indulgence, confidence, vanity… these things SHOULD exist in balance. Feel how you feel. Do what is right for you. Hurt as few people as you can in the process, but know that sometimes it has to happen.

#religious trauma #ex fundie #ex fundamentalist #ex homeschooled #ex homeschool #ex evangelical #ex christian #ex baptist #exvangelical #ex religious #tw religion #religon #ex catholic

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demon-girl-izalith · 4 months

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I think we should keep something in mind this Christmas/holiday season. As the Christian narrative floats around, the white swaddled newborn plastered on billboards, and the focus on what's "sacred" and "holy" circulating through churches around the western world...

The body being "sacred" has nothing to do with some fucked white European idea of chastity or purity. It has absolutely EVERYTHING to do with making sure people are able to feed themselves and their children, not be straight up poisoned by pollutants, or fetishized and exploited for profit. Holiness has nothing to do with being clean or looking your Sunday best.

It was never actually about "purity" or "virginity" or "cleanliness". If it was, why the hell would Jesus have been crucified? The real historical dude said stuff that pissed off people in power so much they fucking merked him. Nothing pisses off agrarian feudal lords or modern capitalists more than telling the masses that they aren't simply morally justified, but on the side of GOD when they steal medicine and food for their children. If you don't believe me, I highly recommend reading William Herzog's "Parables as subversive speech", read about what theologians actually think historical Jesus was talking about all those years ago. Whether you believe in God or not, think religion is a plague or pray a rosary every night, I think keeping this in mind is like super important.

Christianity becomes dangerous and, in the opinion of this demon girl, blasphemous when it is removed from the context of its social cause, when it's co-opted by those in power and disarmed of the radical rhetoric that it was born from originally. I think that's exactly what we see in broader society. I think that an entirely rational response to this is to equate all of Christianity or even all of religion with evil... But I think there's nuance here.

To be clear, I stand with the satanists who support the fight for separation in church and state by chastising the corrupt institutions who have become the opposite of what they claim to espouse. I stand with the atheists who keep the naive theologians in check, and offer peace to the people who have been ravaged by the monster modern Christianity is to so many. Don't stop doing what you're doing. If Jesus was standing here today he'd be standing with you. You're fighting modern day pherisees out here and I'm for it.

Now, this is not to say there aren't problematic things that were always present in the Christian religion, of course there are. And they're quite abundant. I think Christians need to be very aware of that as well. There's nuance there. What I'm calling for here is a realization that the religion of the oppressed is not the same as the religion of the oppressor, and that the religion of the oppressed, when not stripped of its merit and co-opted by systems of greed, can be a force for good. And when we use that lens to look at this bizarre spectacle we call "Christmas", we can learn some interesting stuff.

What I'm saying is, if you're trans, gay, whatever, for the love of God, literally, please LIVE. Listen to your friendly demon izalith. By existing as who you are, you are sacred. Don't let the people wearing robes and claiming to be on the sides of angels and "God" tell you who you can or can't love, or what you can or can't be. If there is a God out there, and he's with those punks, then he's no god. I spit on his name. Angels are overrated anyways... It's the demons, the poor person who steals from Walmart to feed themselves and their children, the prostitute who is proud of their job and the life they work hard to sustain, the fat trans person who goes to Christmas mass in goth makeup... It's those people who the religion was originally made for. It wasn't made for the rich, the white, the straight, the normative. It was made for us. For all those people who are downtrodden, cold this winter, unable to buy food, scared and tired. Fuck that shit they used to traumatize us and belittle us when growing up. It's all lies and venom anyways. If no one loves and accepts you, this demon will.

#christianity #counter-culture Christian #some demon theology #blasphemy is kewl #jesus would scoff at whatever the hell y'all been calling Christianity. especially if we're basing that off the greek orthodox jesus #queer theology #liberation theology #religious commentary #religious trauma #trans #Christmas #tw: religon

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d0ll-part-s · 1 year

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