Anonymous asked:
You're trans? Like jesus?
yeah just like jesus
“I do know of one preacher who…suggested that the Christian way was one among many ways to God (a wave and not the ocean), because afterward a man came up to her and said, ‘If God isn’t partial to Christianity, what am I doing here?’
…As natural as it may be to want to play on the winning team, the wish to secure divine favoritism strikes me as the worst possible reason to practice any religion. If the man who asked that question could not think of a dozen better reasons to be a Christian than that, then what, indeed, was he doing there?
An old story is told about Rabia of Basra, an eighth-century Sufi mystic who was seen running through the streets of her city one day carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she said she wanted to burn down the rewards of paradise with the torch and put out the fires of hell with the water, because both blocked the way to God. ‘O, Allah,’ Rabia prayed, ‘if I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.’
In Christian tradition this comes under the heading of unconditional love, though it is usually understood as the kind of love God exercises toward humans instead of the other way around. Now, thanks to a Muslim mystic from Iraq, I have a new way of understanding what it means to love God unconditionally. Whenever I am tempted to act from fear of divine punishment or hope of divine reward, Rabia leans over from her religion into mine and empties a bucket of water on my head.”
- Barbara Brown Taylor in Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
god is asleep RN and hes going to be soooo pissed that the pleasant 3rd planet he was going to make into a bug world turned out to be an ape world
"I fear, more than anything, my children learning about mpreg and from there getting into omegaverse and all that. It's a slick- I mean slippery slope."
Tiny innocent kitty achieves perfect contact with god for exactly six seconds; four mile wide crater seared into earth by resulting blast of energy
sometimes your owns against homo/transphobes arent funny enough to warrant consciously reminding me that people hate me for immutable characteristics about myself
I love opening up twitter and it's just this over and over again
Almost as bad as the transphobia is the fact that “MegayMan” was right there and they missed it.
the young artist, 1870, henriëtte ronner-knip.
[ID. Painting of a very small kitten with long fluffy fur. She stands atop a half-finished painting, paw on a paintbrush. Beside her is a tube of paint and a water glass. End ID.]
i cant stop thinking of this video i forgot where i saved it from last night. baby eat fish
European: Americans will be like I’m going to watch a whore movie and eat a hamburger slathered in lard
Americans: it’s true I do do this.
American: British people will be like alright I’m off to eat some wheezy bangers (beans and bread out of a can)
Brit: I’ve seen this reblogged by several people I normally trust so: How mocking British cuisine and dialect has a long classist history and how it became frighteningly normalized on an American (uniquely cruel, uniquely ignorant) internet: a thread. 1/?
i would log on during the rapture. just to see what u all were up to