#x-tianity

[maidofmetal]

i wore a rosary and a cross bracelet to my uncles funeral and my cousin still singled me out to convert me to x-tianity jdjdndmdm my cosplay as a good little catholic girl absolutely FAILED ME

#metal speaks #my sister pointed out even if i was catholic he would have tried to convert ne #also he said some horrible bullshit to me and im FUMING STILL 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 #i need to be MORE ASSERTIVE 🤬😭🤬😭🤬😭🤬😭🤬😭🤬

[cosmik-homo]

X-tianity? Like, for mutants?

#x-men

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

My relationship with Christianity is. Interesting.

(readmore cus this got So Long and i don't wanna clog up ur dash)

I was born into a culturally Christian country to parents who had both been christened, but had both since left the church. So I grew up more or less agnostic. I took religious education in school and went for the protestant branch.

we got the choice, as "Christian" i.e. not defined as anything else, between catholic and protestant. my dad grew up catholic and I think between my parents they agreed that protestant was gonna be the lesser of two evils.

I loved school and I loved learning. When I was 7 I snuck into the catholic service once. I didn't take communion (didn't even know what that even was at the time) and was a little fascinated and a lot weirded out by the intricate rituals. I never felt the desire to go again.

(We had services with the protestants too but they were held in a community centre and mostly we were just told kid versions of bible stories.)

In religious studies in high school, we learned about other religions and were told lots of stories, not all of them from the bible. Later, we were taught historical context to some biblical stories, which I found so fascinating.

When I was 13 I joined a church choir with my dad (in a protestant church). This meant that I was now in church on a Sunday with passing regularity, at least a handful of times a year, sometimes more. Good Friday, Christmas Eve and occasional random services which weren't special other than we sang a Bach cantata (which our choir director was very partial to) (and he was right about this tbh).

So I became accustomed quite intimately with the lore and rituals of Christianity, while maintaining a somewhat comfortable distance from the actual religiousness. I listened to the sermons and had my own thoughts about them. The protestants were quite tame, to be honest. I also went to catholic services a handful of times in that time, usually with my dad's family, and usually hated it. (The church. I don't have a problem with my dad's family.)

Anyway, I finished school as a newly out, socially anxious and awkward baby queer. Moved to uni, in Scotland.

I had a very Christian flatmate in my first year. I'm not much of a drinker and during Freshers week where most events seemed to involve alcohol, the Christian Union was a breath of fresh air with their non-alcoholic and still fun events. I maintained the same very practiced arms-length distance while enjoying the events.

At some point during the year I asked a guy who'd been preaching minutes before how he felt about the Church's overall stance on homosexuality. I'd recently dipped my toe into queer activism you see, and had a very real undercurrent of fear of christian retribution for my deviant "lifestyle". That guy tried to assure me that it was mostly just one super-evangelical family in America pushing all the queerphobia, but it didn't reassure me a whole bunch. Around the same time I heard stories out of the LGBT society of being told by members of the Christian Union that they were gonna go to hell. I didn't really go to many more CU events after that.

I entered an era of intense Church-scepticism, which I've always had in moderate amounts. I was on tumblr a lot and learned pride in my sexuality. I was still in choirs, still singing christian music, but meeting other queer people through the choirs as well. I met my first trans friends. By the time I finished uni, i was thoroughly disillusioned with religion (read x tianity).

When I moved to Cardiff, my girlfriend at the time convinced me to join her church choir. This meant being in church every Sunday cus Anglicans are on another fucking level. I kept up with it for a time. The people were nice and they got my pronouns right. I met some lovely friends through that church.

But that church collapsed thanks to some meddling by the bishop, and now I barely even go to my secular trans choir. I miss singing t bh

And I'm back on tumblr. And I've followed quite a few Muslim and Jewish folks. I have Jewish and Muslim friends and I know that "religion bad" is an ice cold take with vibes of cultural genocide. I have Christian friends as well who observe their religion and they are almost all trans queer polyamorous. I've been learning a lot about the biblical context I was taught in school, and how it was still presented from a very much Christian perspective. I've been reflecting on how even though I'm not a religious person, I don't see myself as Christian, this religion has been having a biiiig hold on my life. There are few parts of my life that have not been touched by my Culturally Christian experience and my brushes with Christianity. I belong to the cultural majority in all countries I've lived in for any amount of time at all. I'm Christian in all but name, really.

I've been aware of the horrors of christianity for a long time. The crusades and the genocide and the witchhunts, the pedophilia and sexism and homophobia. I'm learning more now and it's hard for me to see christianity as a force of good, at all, ever. Sure individual christians can be perfectly lovely people and individual churches can be safe spaces for marginalised people.

But I've also been learning a lot about how the good-evil dichotomy was basically invented by the church to keep people in line via fear. I see the consequences of forced christianisation in people from countries that weren't originally christian. I see callers with megaphones and pamphlets and wonder what it would take to cut through their brainwashing. I hear about the terrible damage that cults derived from christianity do - mormons, scientology, jehovas witnesses, even satanism.

I think about how especially catholic services have always felt a bit occulty and strange to me. Bells and incense and weird tasteless wafer bread. The body of christ you say? you want people to take this shit seriously? and millions across the world DO???

I'm at a stage now where I think the church as a global, tax-exempt organisation needs to be dismantled, and we as a society need to have a frank, honest discussion about the values christianity has instilled in us by default. about how catholicism is mostly built on devotion based on fear, and (while historically very effective) this is no way to treat entire populations. its so fucking damaging and has done untold damage to the very foundation of our society.

I wonder what life could be like if millions of Christians were freed from this idea of They Have To Be Perfect Else They Will Burn In Hell Forever. And then the people who have been historically oppressed by christians as well.

What if we built a society on a foundation of joy and care? Hope and community?

(NO!!! not the Christian kind of "if we bring all of these poor sinners into our Community, we can have Hope for their eternal lives". just, Hope that we can make society here, on earth, a better place for everyone, through strengthening Communities.)

The more I think about it the more christianity has got its claws into everything, politics media healthcare everything, and that's just not right. I cannot unsee it. I don't really know what I can do about it? My plate is so full already. But if I just, say, work on dismantling the stigma around disability, work on society seeing disability as a Thing that just Happens and not some kind of divine karma punishment deal, that will already help I think.

And I'm doing that already.

#sorry for the extremely lengthy ramble #christianity #cult mentality #i need a tag for my own rambles

[wellnesscard]

the chi-rho, aka X in x-mas and x-tianity, is literally one of the oldest in-group christian symbol. it is older than the cross, and possibly older than the fish. it is our own symbol, and i think ur xtian friends needs to get over themselves, EVEN if non-christians use it to not write out christ.

ok i just thot it was weird lol and hadnt seen it used before. i like linguistics tho and that makes more sense / a fuller picture. the christains i lived around didnt seem to spend a lot of time on traditions or dogma or theology etc so thats probably why they forgot / are ignorant of the history behind using X like that. i think in like certain contexts too, especially where the linguistic and religious background is not common knowledge, and when juxtapositioned with other religious words that are not "altered", it just stands out and prompts curiosity. i wasnt trying to imply that you / anyone is doing something bad by using X , and honestly thank you for answering the question further.

[the-all-female-hobbit-reboot]

"What have they dared,

sucking at man's wounds for wine,

celebrating his flesh as food?

Whose thirst has been slaked by his vampire liquor,

whose hunger answered by his ghostly bread?

Who have they dared to hang on that spine instead and then deny, across millennia?

Whose is the only body which incarnates creation everlasting?"

- Robin Morgan

from “The Network of the Imaginary Mother”, The Lady of the Beasts

#robin morgan #female writer #misogyny in media #x-tianity

[gayvakarian]

if my x-tian aunt could stop being shitty as hell to me for literally 2 seconds and trying to forcibly convert me during an emotionally vulnerable time in my life by attempting to use guilt and scare tactics and then when that doesn't work trying to go to my fucking mom to do so...

that would be great. because that's really pissing me off. I blocked your number for a reason, dumbass.

#christianity // #x-tianity

[the-lonely-jew]

Dear Tumblr™️ Atheists:

Please. Stop. Assuming. That. Every. Religion. Is. Just. Christianity. With. A. Different. Name.

All of the Abrahamic religions are different, and they all have their specific beliefs and nuances.

Sincerely, a Reform Jewish Atheist who is done with your shit.

#Tumblr #atheists #Judaism #Christianity #X-tianity #Islam #religion #Reform Judaism #Jewish #Christian #Muslim

[mahaltaem]

Act 1 aesthetic was very my taste but act 2...idk

#txt #im just...ppl are speculating that he took inspo from x-tianity #ig specifically catholicism bc thats what he is #and thats all well and good #but my own personal feelings and experiences w/ catholicism ... #lollll

[bigtiddygandalf]

had my first bad trip and uhhh

#that sucked #it... #it sucked sucked #how do you y’all do that #at one point #the pope was there? #and I was like please get out of my room! #also #at one point during the night #I was positive I was a motivational speaker living in new mexico who would travel to schools to talk about the dangers of thc #got so high I almost converted to Christianity #that’s how you know it was bad #got so high that when I woke up (12 hours later) #I STILL considered converting to x-tianity because at least then I wouldn’t have to look at weed ever again #I mean #boy howdy #I don’t even have catholic trauma #why was this a reoccurring theme during my trip? #at one point I was watching my hand glitch through my mattress like in a Bethesda game #and I just kept thinking #“oh fuck I’m dying now!” #so uhh long story short #don’t drink Rays Huckleberry Lemonade 100 mg of THC when you’re in the dumps about your family situation #it ends badly!

[itonje]

and speaking of that 'we are the daughters of the vvitches you couldnt burn' stuff i feel that's a very common stance in white (n mediterranean/nordic/celt) christian-born polytheists when they refer to greco-roman/Celtic religions as being colonized by christianity....ugh

you dont have a direct line of lineage to the ancestors that practiced those religions, but i do. many indigenous/black/colonized peoples do and it's a totally different experience, and our peoples were converted to x-tianity in an entirely different way

not even touching some christian born polytheists think it's okay to be rude and bigoted to jewish and Muslim people just bc they're """"abrahamic""", even though those religions have a completely different power dynamic than christianity and jewish and muslim people are still heavily persecuted today 🙄🙄🙄

#finny.txt

[automatismoateo]

RANT: F*** magical thinking, in any form it takes. via /r/atheism

RANT: F*** magical thinking, in any form it takes.

I for one have had enough of magical thinking in all its various forms. This isn't a new thought of course, and I'm hardly alone in thinking this, but lately it seems because x-tianity is no longer "cool" that the magic alternatives are acceptable.

We're at a crucial fork in in the road for our global civilization where we can go down the road of enlightenment and tackle the problems facing us head-on with URGENCY, grace, dignity and morality OR we can stay on the current path and wallow in the stone-age mud of ignorance while we not-so-slowly succumb to the consequences of our collective stupidity.

Propagating these "alternative" magical belief systems, in the long-run, is just as harmful to the individual and society as any of the Abrahamic religions. Feeling good about yourself because you cast a "spell" or sent a cancer victim "energy" while patting yourself on the back for not being a x-tian is no less ridiculous than the calls for PrAyEr WaRrIoRs the science deniers put out after ending up in the ICU, or "thoughts and prayers" for victims of easily preventable atrocities.

You're not "sticking it to The Man" by subscribing to, participating in and propagating these magical belief systems; you just traded in one yoke for another of a different color. You may feel good about yourself for a while at how hip you are, but I assure you "The Man" is laughing his ass off that you willingly did this instead of attempting to break the cycle of ignorance. It's basically the thin rope tied to a stake in the ground that keeps elephants from running off in the circus.

Honestly I wish we'd smarten the F up as a species; the clock is ticking.

/Rant

Submitted December 30, 2021 at 12:08AM by gpkgpk (From Reddit https://ift.tt/3z9sldm)

#reddit

[butchhatred]

Watched the Prince of Egypt.

I now have a love - hate relationship with X tianity.

#txt #I censored it because I don't want it to appear in the main tags #sue me #tw religion #not really but jic

[serpentandthejar]

Today I ate some fruit and spent a while meditating on Lucifer as, not a healer, but one who gives others the tools and knowledge they need to heal themselves. If there is any X/tian idea that my Luciferianism can be said to directly counter, it is the idea- beaten especially hard into those of us who are disabled, abused, oppressed- that we are fundamentally broken, wrong, and dirty, and that we require another being’s help or forgiveness to put us back together. This attitude pervades secular society, is not only limited to the evangelical X/tianity I was raised in. The effects that such an ideology can have on someone who is already prone to feelings of inadequacy and self-hatred for other reasons are, as I can personally attest, devastating. I think my first introduction to an alternative way of thinking, when I was a recently deconverted and intensely bitter fifteen-year-old atheist, was the His Dark Materials trilogy. Pullman is an atheist and not involved with any form of Satanism to my knowledge, but he drew from Milton too, and came to conclusions which provided a foundation of humanist belief in self-worth which I recognized instantly in Luciferianism when I encountered it years later. Lucifer does not offer to help us; he simply lets us know that despite what we have been told all our lives, we are capable of helping ourselves. That we decide what we are worth, not any authority figure. That we merely have to choose to save ourselves, and in working to do so, we will find that we are worth saving. When I first started this blog close to two years ago, I was uncertain about calling myself a Luciferian, and especially about calling my Luciferianism a religion. I think, now, I’m ready to do both of those things. “Philosophy” is too abstract, like something I could have arguments about in a classroom but that I wouldn’t necessarily apply in day-to-day life. This isn’t that. This is more of a guiding principle, one that I experience in all aspects of life, whether I’m working through a panic attack, studying, or giving myself time to relax. And it’s healthy, and it’s right, and it’s a path that I want to be on. I’ve been nervous about posting at length here, because I’ve never presented myself as a spiritual person- quite the opposite at times- and doing so makes me feel vulnerable. Making my opinions public makes me feel vulnerable too, but I realize that’s just another instance of allowing my fear of other people’s opinions to hold me back. Consider the ice broken.

#journal #luciferianism #I've also updated my about because I have changed a bit since I wrote it

[sixthousandbees]

Hey so I was fuming for a bit about X-tianity. It was how I was brought up, and the biggest thing that hurt me when I got out, was how for the longest time I believed so strongly that there was a loving just “”god””. This is absolutely not the world of someone who loves it.

Anyway someone reblogged the lillith post saying it was non-canonical. But like you know sodom and gomorrah? How “Lot” was the one “”Good”” person in the city so god saved him? when the angels arrived in the city to tell Lot to try to find more “”good”” people or get out of town, a crowd showed up and wanted to fuck the cool tall strangers. Lot said “no please don’t, how about you rape my two daughters instead??”. Gods chosen. 

Fast forward, cities destroyed. Lots wife looked back at the noise and was besalted. Lot and daughters wander the wilderness and hide in caves. Lots daughters go “oh noes, there no men out here :( RIP our family line” and so they rape their dad. 

This ones canonical. This is what you’re defending. This is the perfect plan your god set out for him.

#Rape tw #christianity tw #hopefully the tw tag will filter it but not dump it into the christianity tag #I dont want angry people with their eyes screwed shut yelling at me because they've never read the bible #My mum and sister still believe #I haven't raged at them about my vicious hatred for this #they still find comfort and stuff #I aint gonna rain on their parade #and they wouldn't hear me anyway #'but what about x??' #'that was a metaphor #you weren't meant to take it literally!!' #sure jan #sure

[gayvakarian]

I get irritated very easily so I usually stick to blacklisting like every variation of smth I can think of but things I specifically need tagged are:

bbc sherlock / bnedict cucumbner

h*milton

spiders / arachnids (BIG ONE)

x-tianity (BIG ONE)

chocolate and mint

and if it's smth u don't feel like putting in any main tags u can just tag it as "joey don't look"

#hamilton //

[sp3ktr]

Day 170 of posting naughty drawings on the weekend so you dont get busted at work. I keep thinking about lilith. The original wife of adam, this archtype demonised and maligned through rhe last 2000 years for asking for equality. It makes me wonder how long this conservative conjob goes back in history. The true conspiracy of cock control echos back before the advent of judeo X-tianity . When did they really subvert the Goddess? Let me know more below, im sure there is something i missed