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daily affirmations
- i am the unkillable faggot
- i can exist in grocery stores
- i have the shittiest music taste in any room
- i have a gun
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i did have to sit thru a trailer for that upcoming Jesus animated movie, n something I've noticed a lot in childrens jesus media is having kids fucking weeping over jesus. and I understand why thats a common trope but it's so unnerving and uncomfortable. that u want your children to be so so so sad about jesus they break down sobbing.
#They do just straight up Want their children to feel immense guilt and pressure over the death of Jesus. It is the moral compass.#If you're lucky they'll teach you that kindness is important because other people are important. But usually it's just 'God DIED for YOU.'#Children being upset over the death of jesus is also seen as a Sign of the Parent's Excellent Parenting. How Empathetic! How Devout!#This Child Understands God's Forgiveness! When they should not fucking have to engage with that kind of guilt at 8 years old.#It's a point of pride for them to traumatize their children.
My system as a whole has a strange anxiety - or fear, even - of new music that we've always kind of chalked up to autism and an extreme desire for complete control over everything we experience. This isn't a healthy way to be of course, but it's something we struggle with. The concern that anything we experience will create such a strong emotional response, positive or negative, that we will be overwhelmed by it. The idea that this is best avoided, that the 'safe' zone is a bubble completely encompassed by the 'comfort' zone, rather than extending slightly outside of it. We are always assessing for risk and heavily weighing in favor of that risk. Even when the risk is "I didn't like that album very much". But ESPECIALLY when we can make medium-level risk predictions, like "I may be harmed" or "I may be embarrassed". The avoidance has protected us from real, tangible danger as well as percieved or imagined danger for so long. It is hard to imagine living without the voice that pushes me back from the ledge, even with a railing there for me.
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so i think the real difference between catholicism and evangelical protestantism is that catholic guilt will leave you feeling like a monster for ever daring to be happy and protestant/evangelical guilt will leave you feeling like a monster for ever daring to be unhappy
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idk man its all so fucking flimsy. youre really telling me there is no way, no way at all, to allow free will and minimize human suffering at the same time?? why does it have to be all or nothing? and like, i think most of us would be willing to give up a tiny bit of free will if it meant getting rid of like, genocide and poverty and hunger. youre seriously trying to convince me that a literal all powerful being cant find a way around that. and then you add the existence of hell and original sin and every other fucking thing and like! not to sound like a reddit atheist but i think if you have to jump through a million hoops to explain why your god isnt actually as evil as he seems then idk i think your god might just be evil.
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"These right wingers don't follow the REAL teachings of Christ"
They ignore the parts of the Bible which encourage compassion and charity just as easily as a nice Christian ignores the parts about misogyny and bigotry. Religious documents are just documents.
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christian rock bands are a backbone genre in the amv scene
christian rock band making a song: i dedicate this one to you jesus
unwell 12 year old girl who is a couple years away from having a gender crisis: this is so naruto and sasuke
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actually how could you be expected to be some kind of gentle dove with no anger or boundaries that gives grace 100% of the time and has no needs of its own . it's almost as if that expectation is actually convincing you to allow yourself to be hurt and not stand up for yourself when mistreated. rage does not make you bad or unkind and you're not a manipulator for having emotions
Before The Thing that broke my faith completely, there was still... something.
I believed in god, I had no concept of believing anything else. But when I was ten maybe, my best friend told me that she had personally seen an angel the previous night. And I did not believe her. I don't know why. I believed angels were real, that they could appear to people to tell them things.
"You probably just dreamed that," I said. Was it because I thought god wouldn't bother with children? Or because I had never had an experience like that despite BEGGING god for proof? Because I thought she was lying to feel special, like I had done sometimes? "Or your mom opened the door with the light on." She was not happy with this response.
I would like to think that this was some kind of... natural disposition of mine, to count on physical evidence, secular explanations first, but that's probably more my ego talking than anything. I would LIKE to think of my child self as being able to see through the stories I was told. But I didn't, not for a very long time. Because I was a child. And from day one, angels were real, and I was named after my parents' god because he was just so good.
But maybe I don't give myself enough credit. Maybe there was a natural skepticism in me that came through. Maybe the only reason I was able to be indoctrinated is because that natural skepticism was intentionally squashed and ridiculed. And that was the first opportunity I had to think critically about a story I was being told - because it came from an equal peer, not an adult acting like it was true history from a textbook. I guess I can't know for sure.