#religion
i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake
fabulous
i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.
God, pointing and laughing at his creations:
The idea that “idle hands are the devils tools” is so wild to me, because like it implies that if medieval people had even a second to think they would immediately abandon god and turn to sin, and everyone knew this, and it was so common they had a saying about it. Still used and relevant today
I haven’t seen god
since I was 7, kneeling palms-together before the shrine, repeating words in a language I spoke but didn’t know
under my mother’s watchful gaze I pressed first sindoor then haldi then a single grain of uncooked rice to a golden forehead hardly bigger than my fingertip, and when my mother closed her eyes I
kept mine open and searched minuscule bronze pupils for some hint of otherworldly presence, transcendent benediction
asked: are you there; are you watching; can you tell me if I’m good enough; can you tell me how to atone;
and god said: why should I distill my essence into 100 grams of silver rather than the gradual carving of aquifers into bedrock or the ebullience of frolicking through air currents with the eagles; why should I have eyes only when you provide them; why should your sins weigh heavier upon me than those of the raging ocean or the mountains that will not bow their heads
and god said: you will not find me by making me in your image
and god promised: seek the slivers of me dispersed among the infinite entities under my care and lay them one atop the other and in the amalgam you will discover the shape of me
two decades later my search has barely started and I will still be looking when I’m on my deathbed and if I am granted another life to continue paying penance my search will go with me
some days I think that must be the point
christian forgiveness is used to control and shame victims into renouncing all claim to justice and restitution. it is a facade of equanimity that people are forced into so that everyone else can pretend nothing happened, that nothing must be changed, that there is nothing wrong, that there are no faults or threats except that of the victim against the aggressor, and that threat is truly the only and greatest concern. this is how they justify never taking action to prevent known threats or right any wrongs. only the victim is the real threat.
it is for enforcing the status quo. to deny that anything wrong took place, or that anything else needs to happen before everything is corrected and made right and thus forgettable.
4x24:
Wait it’s so cute that Ramadan, Passover and Easter are all happening this weekend…….yesss party rock is in the religious House tonight ❤️
You can worship a deity without being devoted to that deity. You can make offerings without making oaths. It is okay. Please do not stress yourselves out because you want to make a thank-you offering but don’t want to make a lifelong commitment. Why would you need to swear oaths to say thank you? It is totally okay to just make conversation without involving vows and stuff.
Aninteractive world map has now been created where all hellenic polytheists can add their location, and find others of the same religion.
You don’t have to create an account to add your location.
Select “Additions” in the top left corner of the page, and click the first option: “Add Marker - Simple”. A pop-up window will now appear and ask you for your information. Fill in your name, location, and under “directions” you can fill in any contact information you wish to leave. I have chosen to write my email address and this blog’s URL in case anyone wants to get in touch. Your entry is saved by clicking “submit”.I hope all my Hellenic polytheist followers will consider adding your location to this map, and please help spread the word to any people you might know of this religion! :)
So you wanna be a Christian witch part XXXI…
Have you ever had someone come up to you and thank you? I mean, really thanked you. They look you in the eye and acknowledge the impact you have had on their life. Sometimes you don’t mean to have such an impact, but you do.
And when they thank you, it’s not just for doing anything. It is for exercising your gift. It is because you not only revealed the best parts of yourself, but you also gave of it freely. To us this often means nothing. But to someone else, it can mean the world.
As each one has received some spiritual gift, he should use it to serve others, like good managers of God’s many-sided grace — if someone speaks, let him speak God’s words; if someone serves, let him do so out of strength that God supplies; so that in everything God may be glorified through Yeshua the Messiah — to him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen.
-1 Peter 4:10-11
Often, when we receive such praise it is because we have used a spiritual gifting to aid someone. God desires for us to use our gifting to glorify Him. He wants us to use our gifts to help the needy and heal the sick. He wants us to use them to shine a light into the world.
If you believe that witchcraft is your gifting, you must use it to glorify God. You must use it to serve others. Craft is not fun and games. It’s a blessing.
When was the last time you used your magick for someone else’s benefit? Take some time today and brainstorm some ideas for spells that benefit those in need.
“I believe in God sometimes, but I believe in God the most when I imagine a God who has my mother’s laugh. I believe in a God who doesn’t want to get out of bed some mornings. A God who holds the old leather jackets of her dead friends and sits in a pile of old records on the floor of whatever heaven looks like. I believe in a God who comes home after a long night of being less than holy and sprawls out in a bed wearing the same clothes he went out in, and I believe in a God who is jarred awake by the floor rumbling with the weight of people praising his name. A wall of many hands clapping because of what his presence moved them to do.”— Hanif Abdurraqib, ‘Claws in Your Back’ - Julien Baker / The Deep Consolation of a Song About What It Would Feel Like to Die
My gods are not perfect. They don’t need to be. My gods are not mortals, they are not humans, and therefore it is IMPOSSIBLE to compare them to humans, or to put them to human standards. My gods are not perfect, they have made mistakes in their lives, they’ve made mistakes in my life, too. But they are gods. They were there for me when I needed them. They supported me when I couldn’t support myself. My gods loved me, even when no one else did.
Don’t you dare ever misrepresent, disrespect, or demean them in any way. Just because you might not see them my way, does not mean that I don’t love them with all my capability, that they are not my protectors and guides, that they are not my family, or my loved one.
These are my gods, this is my religion. Do not mute me.