hey uhhh but fr the concept of fallen angels existing but risen demons being an impossibility is kind of a great summary of sin in christianity
holy shit
no, no, come back here and tell me how stupid it is to talk about how the power dynamics inherent to christianity are built upon the rhetoric that failure is unavoidable and there is never enough you can do to make up for it
me listening to religious people describe heaven as a moneyless, stateless, classless world, then criticize communism
this is the problem with evangelical christianity, it sees all attempts to improve life here on earth as worldly and therefore undeserving of attention.
obsessed with this
lol this slaps
HOLD BABY JESUS RANSOM UNTIL ST. ANTHONY RETURNS YOUR FREAKING KEYS
Lady Gaga, Judas (2011)
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one of my favorite things about christianity is that jesus died to save people from their sins and then every christian kind of immediately forgot that he did that. theyll come up to you like "excuse me you know smoking is a sin" like yes maam i know. your boy already took care of it dont worry
‘COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—Following a series of transphobic comments by the Harry Potter author, the nation’s top evangelical leaders announced Monday that J.K. Rowling had finally become bigoted enough to make it okay for kids to read about witchcraft. “While I always appreciated Ms. Rowling making the greedy banker goblins a thinly veiled stand-in for the Jews, it is only with her assertions that trans women aren’t women that I’ve finally come around to allowing children to read her books,” said evangelist and Focus on the Family president Jim Daly, explaining that while he still did not approve of the satanic imagery embedded throughout the Harry Potter series, Rowling’s consistent dehumanization of people who are different from her had prompted him to reconsider. “I understand that her tacitly justifying slavery though the depictions of house elves was meant as an olive branch, but now, with her steadfast commitment to demonizing trans people, she has finally won us over. And look, I’m not thrilled about the idea of my children potentially learning spells, but I’m willing to overlook that considering one of the only Asian characters in the entire franchise is named Cho Chang.” At press time, Harry Potter received a full-throated endorsement from evangelicals for introducing an entirely new set of bigoted slurs to explain half-magic and non-magic people.’
OK, fine, the Brits can take this one W for once.
rare occurence: tfw a christian seems to have read the same book I did
Funniest bit: OP, who is deactivated, made this post expecting people to side with the corporations
Oh work bitch
I feel like I just attended a Sunday service.
I was about to say “how do you know someone has done that unless it’s you, OP” but then I recognized the name and I went on twitter to check and sure enough he was my creative writing professor in college
No one gonna talk about how he called catholicism, Catholic canon
You know that’s the origin of the term “canon,” right?
another classic hit from the people that lost verizon a billion dollaridoos
A friend asked the other day what percentage of people I went to youth group with “deconstructed” and what percentage remained evangelical. As I thought about it, I realized that for the most part it was the kids who took their faith the most seriously who eventually walked away.
Those of us who tearfully promised that we would follow Jesus anywhere eventually followed him out the door. The Queer kids, more than anyone, learned exactly what it meant to work out our faith with fear and trembling.
They told us to read the Bible and take it seriously and then mocked us for becoming “social justice warriors.”
Now they’re warning us not to deconstruct to the point of meaninglessness.
Some of us got to where we are because we took it all to heart. We took the most foundational elements of our faith to their natural conclusions. Folks who deconstruct evangelicalism aren’t drop-outs; they’re graduates.
- Rhett McLaughlin
“But they took a chisel to God until he fit into a box” is probably the RAWEST line I’ve ever read in my life. Holy shit.
compare the backlash lil nas x is recieving for a 3 minute music video vs. supernatural running for 15 years, having a cameo from every biblical character, making Thee Christian God bisexual, killing that Bisexual Christian God™, replacing him with lucifer's son, having a gay angel, and on and on and on. compare his THREE MINUTE VIDEO to lucifer, the show that has ran on for five years, about the redemption of a bisexual satan. this is about race. what they're doing to him is because he's Black. white people get to do whatever the fuck they want with Christian mythology and no one blinks an eye.
