i was raised christian and was anyone ever going to tell me that when judas betrayed jesus he kissed him on the fucking mouth or was i just expected to find that out myself when i googled judas during a college religious studies class
anyone who says “the bible is clear” about an issue, is 100% of the time wrong. the bible wasnt clear once. the bible couldnt be clear about how to make a table if it came in an ikea box
Exodus 25:23-30
well ill be darned
the only thing the bible is clear on is how to make furniture but only because jesus was a carpenter
[Text ID: Something devastating happens in every one of my wet dreams. / [indented] I don’t think this means anything. [/end indented line] / Most of the people I’ve slept with or almost slept with / or wanted to sleep with have tried to kill themselves. / [indented] I don’t think this means anything either. [/end indented line] / Come morning, I press down on my liver, spleen, / and kidneys [several spaces] just in case. / [indent] Still, pain—body or being—doesn’t mean anything. [/end indented line] / The willow tree dies, a mother drives her van into the ocean, / and 18-wheeler runs a teenager off the road, Galveston wins / worst beach in the world, someone misaddresses a Christmas card, / cops cut coke with fentanyl, a scientists discovers a type of fish / that’s been there the whole time, a stranger helps jumpstart a car, / nail polish chips after one day at the pool, a fifteen-year old / girl thinks the atom bomb’s lodged in her chest. //
[indented] None if it means anything. [/end indented line] /End ID]
[Text ID: a two-part song edit of lyrics from “Shadowboxing” by Julien Baker in hollow white letters in all-caps against an image of a nighttime skyline under a purple thunderstorm;
together, the lyrics read: “When you watch me / throwing punches / at the devil // [Ooh, i]t just looks like / I’m fighting with / me” /End ID]
[Audio ID: A Spotify embed of aforementioned song /End ID]
ID 1: a tweet from serpent @/serpentwithfeet reading: “lord, teach me how not to overwater the things i love.”
ID 2: A quote from Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez which reads: “I killed a plant once because I gave / it too much water. Lord, I worry / that love is violence.”
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[plaintext: on haunting]
[ID: 1: I know I’m American because when I walk into a room something dies. Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound. When I die, I promise to haunt you forever.
2:I’ll come back to haunt you Memories will taunt you And I will try to love you It’s not like I’m above you
3: It’s your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you. Good-bye,
4: art of a girl reaching out to touch the ghostly silhouette of a person.
5: I hope that heaven’s conscience has the power To trap you in the rocks and force your penance Down your throat, as you call my name. I’ll send My black flames there. When cold death draws my soul out, My ghost will hound you. Even among the dead souls In hell, I’ll know when you are finally paying.”
6: i want to be the one that haunts you. i want to be your biggest regret.
7: art of a person asleep in a chair, overlaid is two figures in brighter colors.
8: Not there–not in heaven–not perished–where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer–I repeat it till my tongue stiffens–Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest, as long as I am living! You said I killed you–haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe–I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always–take any form–drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
9: your smell won’t let me sleep, this is how dead men haunt their murderers’ dreams.
10: I do not want to be alone like this. Why have you not come back to haunt me? /end ID]
[ID: A cropped part of a wikipedia article. It reads “In 2002, Pope John Paul II requested that the media stop referring to the car as the popemobile, saying that the term was “undignified”. [1] In 2007, the popemobile-“. The article is cut off mid-sentence. end ID]
Text reading: I 2002, Pope John Paul II requested that the media stop referring to the car as the popemobile, saying that the term was “undignified”. In 2007, the popemobile
Christians hate when a gay man goes “fuck it, I’ll gladly go to Hell if you want me to so bad” because it takes the edge away from their tools of fear. If they can’t scare you with threats of eternal damnation then one of their main weapons is taken away.
“You’re supposed to fear your father/parents” this isn’t the first time I’ve seen someone say that someone told them this in the tags. Christianity as an institution is one of the biggest shelters for abusers out there and this shit right here is how they do it.
one of the first things i learned in a fucking summer vacation theater camp for kids was about how to emote on stage. the counselor wrote “LOVE” on the board and asked the class if anyone knew what the opposite of love was. naturally the whole class responds with “HATE”
he said we were all wrong and wrote “FEAR” on the board.
fear does not equal love. fear does not equal respect. fear will never be part of a healthy relationship with anyone or anything and if fear is being used against you in the name of love then thats a huge red flag if ive ever seen one
For like 18 or 19 years I didn’t actually know what holy water was or that catholic priests were apparently granted the powers of biblical prophets and so I assumed that holy water must be water from the river Jordan and that for thousands of years catholics had been going over to Israel and harvesting their river for ritual purposes
….huhH?
I was under the impression it had to be from *the river*???
Like my dad went to Israel and purchased holy water while he was there???
Bought multiple bottles?? So the church could have them for baptisms and we could have some at home
Someone help
Well somewhere along the way someone convinced me that holy water was just regular tap water blessed by a priest but thank you for letting me know that I was right about at least some Christians mining the river in a mass theft/conspiracy operation
I still don’t know what holy water is
Theories from the notes:
It’s just any water that’s been blessed by the Pope
It’s spring water with small amounts of silver mixed in that has been blessed
It’s water that has been exorcised by a priest and then had exorcised salt added during a specific ritual prayer
It is water from the River Jordan
It is water blessed by a priest
It is water that has been blessed with a certain prayer and salt
It is water someone did the sign of the cross over and then spoke a certain incantation
Glad we all had this discussion on Easter Sunday when anyone who would know for sure is not on tumblr
I went to a friend’s baptism in either early highschool or late middle school and I watched them wheel out a bathtub looking box thing and they filled that shit with a HOSE
catholics will assign morality to the stupidest things like not only was your reading awful but it is a reflection of how much you read the bible every day and a measure of your own commitment to your religion and baby you’re lacking etc etc just get a damn life
I’m having a weird month and finding it increasingly hard to disentangle modern narratives about bodies, lifestyle, health, and diet from medieval Christian versions of the same. It’s all melting and turning to soup inside my brain.
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i come from a strain of fundamentalism where it is VERY taboo to talk about God outside a strictly theological context, meaning saying things like “he’s richer than God” is considered using the Lord’s name in vain and you will be scolded if you do it. so throwing around phrases like this and also things like “oh my god” or “good Lord” gives me the same agreeable feeling of taboo-violation as proper swearing does.
UNFORTUNATELY….when i say it in general company it makes me sound like i am in fact very christian. which is the opposite of what i want. so anyway the point is. when you catch me saying things like “he doesn’t have the common sense God gave a cantaloupe” PLEASE know that my intent is reclamatorily blasphemous not reverential
as much as christians want it to be the case, someone talking about their religious trauma with christianity actually isnt “propaganda” nor is it unkind or rude to literally talk about how things they did hurt you. instead of buckling under a victim complex maybe you should examine how you yourself have probably promoted things that hurt people instead of getting mad that someone who is literally oppressed by christianiy isn’t specifying which brand hurt them and apologizing for talking bad about it because i promise you the denomination doesn’t matter. there are so many of us from all denominations who were traumatized, you’re very entitled if you want people to step over your feelings because you’re in a specific one.
If a group doesn’t believe that there can be any legitimate criticism of their group and/or legitimate reasons to leave (or no one can ever reach whatever standards they have for either), that’s a massive red flag that the group is controlling and abusive
